Just out of curiosity, were the poll choices arranged in any particular fashion? They look a little bit to me like they’re arranged in descending order of expertise (i.e. the further down the list you go, the more expertise you have), but I can’t see “I read *good* books about economics” below “B.A./B.S. in economics”, or “I write my own economics blog” below “Nobel prize in economics”. Or was the arrangement more or less random?
In order of expertise plus joke at end. Probably anyone smart and curious enough to read seriously about economics on their own will be far ahead of typical undergrad after 4 years.
Where’s the “I design financial systems used by more than a million people to secure billions in value, but despise economic blogs of all sorts and have no formal training from academic sources”?
Yes, I concur. I’ve yet to have taken my required HS Econ class, and while I read the occasional post here and on Overcoming Bias about economics, that probably doesn’t count.
My economics education is best described as: [pollid:839]
Just out of curiosity, were the poll choices arranged in any particular fashion? They look a little bit to me like they’re arranged in descending order of expertise (i.e. the further down the list you go, the more expertise you have), but I can’t see “I read *good* books about economics” below “B.A./B.S. in economics”, or “I write my own economics blog” below “Nobel prize in economics”. Or was the arrangement more or less random?
In order of expertise plus joke at end. Probably anyone smart and curious enough to read seriously about economics on their own will be far ahead of typical undergrad after 4 years.
I took the classes, read some blogs, and read some books. I marked it down as taking required classes. Should I have wrote reading the books?
Is not really important, poll cheap to make and cheap to answer, no need to be so accurate....
Read some blogs. I’d like to read the good blogs, but I have no idea where to find them; any pointers?
Quite like marginalrevolution.com myself....
“Good” is, of course, super subjective. But here are some that I’d recommend...
More liberal perspective...
Miles Kimball John Quiggin Noah Smith
More market perspective...
CafeHayek Coordination Problem EconLog AskBlog
For both a market perspective (Tabarrok) and a liberal perspective (Cowen)...
MarginalRevolution
And for a pragmatarian perspective… my own blog...
Pragmatarianism
needs a “none” option
Needs a “this poll is inadequate option”.
Where’s the “I design financial systems used by more than a million people to secure billions in value, but despise economic blogs of all sorts and have no formal training from academic sources”?
Will be sure to remember that for next time....
Yes, I concur. I’ve yet to have taken my required HS Econ class, and while I read the occasional post here and on Overcoming Bias about economics, that probably doesn’t count.