State of Econ Stuff on the Web - Pretty Dismal
Today I did a Google & Yahoo Search and found the first result in Google and 2nd result in Yahoo! Search to be the About.com page for economics, which is actually horrible, because the “expert” on this page is this 2nd rate econ grad student who goes on and on about the “FairTax” - some derivative of the FlatTax. A sure sign of a 2nd rate economist is someone who takes his neoclassical economics a little too seriously, and doesn’t live in the real world. http://economics.about.com/mbiopage.htm
The other sites were also pretty bad. Highly ranked were propaganda sites like www.capitalism.org and http://www.econlib.org/.
I did run into some fun & useful econ sites:
For econ term definitions -
http://www.economyprofessor.com/
Econ games -
http://www.theeconomistsquartet.org/
http://www.gametheory.net/Mike/applets/Bayes/
Some Economist blogs -
A Berkeley econ professor’s rant blog -
http://delong.typepad.com/
Blog by Freakonomics authors
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/01/
Will have to strive to improve the online economics information out there….
