The top 25 eco-wonk blogsThe Wall Street Journal has compiled its top 25 economics blogs for the overly wonkish among us.
Academic economists
Data, recession, Turnbull and a load of old experts
Malcolm Turnbull has built his entire strategy for the economic crisis on an academic parlour game with zero real-world significance, writes Bernard Keane.
Garnaut loses the plot
Ross Garnaut, who will report in June to the Rudd Government on its emissions trading system, is a former trade economist now spending a lot of time thinking about how to prevent powerful industries undermining the Government’s plans, writes Clive Hamilton.
You say AE and I say FME …let’s call the whole thing Medianomics
The economics profession is divided into two tribes, the Academic Economists and Financial Market Economists. And in the media, it’s the latter who dominate — to the public’s detriment, says Humphrey McQueen.
