BLOGS AND PODCASTS

        FOR ECONOMICS STUDENTS
 

compiled by Michael DeBow,
        Professor of Law, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
        medebow@samford.edu
    My general links page
    My course links page
 

**  BLOGS  **

I.  General

A Constrained Vision

Aplia blog ("news for econ students")

Division of Labour (every once in a while, I post something here)

EconLog (from the Library of Economics and Liberty -- a wonderful site; check it out)

Economist's View

Greg Mankiw ("random observations for students of economics")

The Idea Shop ("Where the dismal science gets groovy") (good links page)

Marginal Revolution

Newmark's Door

Tufte's Economics Classes Blog (good blogroll)

Economics Blogs Resource Page (annotated list of economics blogs, from Seeking Alpha)

Economics Roundtable (survey of economics blog entries)
 

II.  Specialties

*  Austrian economics

The Austrian Economists

Cafe Hayek

Mises Institute

*  Environmental economics

The Commons

Environmental Economics

*  History of economic thought

Adam Smith Lives

Adam Smith's Lost Legacy

*  Industrial organization/Economics of the firm

Organizations and Markets

Knowledge Problem

*  Law and economics

Becker-Posner Blog  a Nobel laureate in economics and the most prolific federal appellate judge alive look at one topic per week

David Friedman

Empirical Legal Studies

RiskProf  "insurance, liability law and economics"

Truth on the Market
 

III.  Classical liberalism

Adam Smith Institute blog (UK)

Asymmetrical Information ("Jane Galt")

Proportional Belief  (by an Adam Smith scholar)

PrestoPundit  (ditto)

Stationary Bandit

The Liberal Order
 

**  PODCASTS  **

EconTalk from the Library of Economics and Liberty

Radio Economics

Law and Economics Podcast from George Mason U. law school  (also here)

Wall Street Journal  (no subscription required)

Cato Institute

Tech Central Station podcasts & webcasts library

University of Chicago law school podcasts

The Oyez Project podcasts  "Commentary about the Supreme Court from people in the trenches"
 

Think tanks

Conservative/libertarian podcasts and lecture archives:

        American Enterprise Institute (DC)

        Ashbrook Center of Ashland University (Ohio)

        Cato Institute (DC)

        Heritage Foundation (DC)

        Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Delaware)

        EconTalk at the Library of Economics & Liberty (Indiana)
 
 
 
 

last updated on September 21, 2006