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Comment author: [deleted] 02 March 2015 03:01:45AM 2 points [-]

My economics education is best described as:

Submitting...

Comment author: Baughn 02 March 2015 02:04:30PM 3 points [-]

Read some blogs. I'd like to read the good blogs, but I have no idea where to find them; any pointers?

Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2015 01:52:21AM 2 points [-]

Quite like marginalrevolution.com myself....

Comment author: Xerographica 02 March 2015 07:01:35PM 1 point [-]

"Good" is, of course, super subjective. But here are some that I'd recommend...

More liberal perspective...

Miles Kimball John Quiggin Noah Smith

More market perspective...

CafeHayek Coordination Problem EconLog AskBlog

For both a market perspective (Tabarrok) and a liberal perspective (Cowen)...

MarginalRevolution

And for a pragmatarian perspective... my own blog...

Pragmatarianism

Comment author: bramflakes 02 March 2015 04:51:39AM 3 points [-]

needs a "none" option

Comment author: [deleted] 02 March 2015 06:42:51AM *  3 points [-]

Needs a "this poll is inadequate option".

Where's the "I design financial systems used by more than a million people to secure billions in value, but despise economic blogs of all sorts and have no formal training from academic sources"?

Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2015 01:52:01AM 3 points [-]

Will be sure to remember that for next time....

Comment author: ilzolende 02 March 2015 06:08:45AM 1 point [-]

Yes, I concur. I've yet to have taken my required HS Econ class, and while I read the occasional post here and on Overcoming Bias about economics, that probably doesn't count.

Comment author: dxu 02 March 2015 03:43:29AM *  2 points [-]

Just out of curiosity, were the poll choices arranged in any particular fashion? They look a little bit to me like they're arranged in descending order of expertise (i.e. the further down the list you go, the more expertise you have), but I can't see "I read *good* books about economics" below "B.A./B.S. in economics", or "I write my own economics blog" below "Nobel prize in economics". Or was the arrangement more or less random?

Comment author: [deleted] 02 March 2015 03:54:32AM 2 points [-]

In order of expertise plus joke at end. Probably anyone smart and curious enough to read seriously about economics on their own will be far ahead of typical undergrad after 4 years.

Comment author: DanielLC 02 March 2015 04:52:45AM 1 point [-]

I took the classes, read some blogs, and read some books. I marked it down as taking required classes. Should I have wrote reading the books?

Comment author: [deleted] 03 March 2015 01:53:43AM 0 points [-]

Is not really important, poll cheap to make and cheap to answer, no need to be so accurate....