Conclusion

I sincerely hope that this brief introduction to economics blogging has been in some way useful. Please continue the forum by submitting your comments and questions to each topic. To conclude I would like to provide a few other useful sources for connecting to our increasingly globalized world through the field of economics.

Professor’s Web Pages

There are many professors out there who do not post a blog per say, but do maintain thorough homepages for use by their students. Most of these homepages are open to the public and can be great resources for students.

Alan Deardorff: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/

For the study of international economics Alan Deardorff’s homepage is a great resources. The materials he uses to teach his international economics courses are readily available as is an excellent glossary of terms and more supplemental reading materials than you could reasonably get through in your college career.

Other Sites

The Economist: http://www.economist.com/

The Economist is published weekly, and more frequently on-line and highlights economic and international affairs issues. It is a form of advocacy journalism rather than simply a news source and is ideologically based on free trade, and classical liberalism. As will all other sources mentioned the slant of the articles must me taken into account.
Another noteworthy factor is that the articles do not list an author; rather each article is published with a title only. This can be somewhat misleading in saying that these are the views of the entire paper, or the only views that exist because they are published under this overarching authority of “The Economist”. This aside, the articles in The Economist are for the most part well written and resourceful.