Marginal Revolution (blog)

Marginal Revolution (blog)
This article is about a blog about economics. For the economics term regarding marginal utility, see Marginal utility.
Tyler Cowen, co-founder and most prolific contributor to the blog

Marginal Revolution is a blog focused on economics run by economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of whom teach at George Mason University. The blog's slogan is "Small steps toward a much better world." The site is updated daily and focuses on current events and newly released reports or books. The "small steps" advocated by the slogan are usually free market–based policies, ranging from new forms of property rights to following the results of behavioral economics studies. As of July 2005, Marginal Revolution had a BlogPulse rank of 88, the highest of any economics blog.[1]

Several of the blog's postings by Cowen were revised and published together in the 2007 book Discover Your Inner Economist.

Contents

"Continuing Series"

Some articles follow common themes, including "Markets in Everything", which is news about offbeat and nontraditional goods or services that are traded; "Area fact of the day," which covers surprising news about a given city or country; since the global financial crisis began "The Countercyclical Asset", which records products and services that thrive in a recession; "What I've Been Reading", a list of books the author has read recently, with a short review and sales link; "My Favourite things [Area]", which lists the best cultural offerings from a particular province, city or country, and formerly "Claims my Russian wife laughs at," which is about the differences between an economist's outlook on life versus that of a non-economist from a different continent and culture.

Status on comments

In the comments controversy of the economics blogosphere, where some economics blogs (such as EconLog) allow comments on every post, while others (such as Tim Harford's website) have no comment function. For the first few years of its existence, Marginal Revolution only opened the Comments section on selected posts. Tyler Cowen's explanation, given September 15, 2005,[2] was that regular availability of comments causes a lower quality than periodic availability; when the poster (Cowen or Tabarrok) sets his own course, he can choose to solicit comments when the subject "involves particular facts and decentralized knowledge". This is an attempt to allow an accretion of previously unknown data and informed opinions on more esoteric subjects while avoiding repetitive flame wars on subjects such as "evolution, free will, or Paul Krugman". However, since at least early 2008, the comments have been open for every Marginal Revolution post.

Guest bloggers

Guest bloggers have included Robin Hanson, Tim Harford, Steven Landsburg, Fabio Rojas, James Surowiecki, Bryan Caplan and Justin Wolfers.

References

  1. ^ Newmark's Door: Rankings of economics blogs
  2. ^ Marginal Revolution: Self-experimentation with comments

External links


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