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Newmark's Door: Rankings of economics blogs

Craig Newmark succumbs and begins ranking economics weblogs:

Newmark's Door: Rankings of economics blogs: Among the things economists are notorious for in academia is our intense--close to obsessive--interest in rankings. Rankings of journals, of particular papers, of individual economists, and of departments. (This assertion should be backed by some citations, but I don't want to make time to find them. Just trust me.) So I figured it was just a matter of time until someone produced a detailed ranking of economics blogs. Especially since I invited my many millions of readers to produce one over a year ago. But I haven't seen one. And a few minutes spent Googling suggests that there isn't one. So I guess it falls to me to begin this neglected but vitally important task...

On principle, I refuse to look further down the page.

:-)

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