An AEA webpage and me
September 12, 2006
You simply can't trust anybody these days: on a webpage under the aegis of the American Economic Association we find three mistakes in a single paragraph. (Look at it now; I'll be e-mailing them corrections which I assume they'll accept.)
Internet Blogs
Blogs are an informal method of discussing economic ideas. Craig NewMark who created Craigslist ranks blogs written by economists. Among leading blogs are Brad Delong’s Semi-daily Journal, Freakonomics Blog and Crooked Timbers among many others. Gregory Mankiw has a blog for the introductory economics course at Harvard.
1. "Crooked Timbers" should be Crooked Timber.
2. My last name is not the eccentrically-spelled "NewMark" but just "Newmark".
3. And I am, much to my everlasting chagrin, not the creator of Craigslist. (I have, however, been receiving a tiny percentage of the actual creator's e-mail, e-mail which is . . . interesting, to say the least. But that's a story for another day . . .)