Tyler Cowen: evaluation

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…What kinds of blogs should there be more of in the world? Single-issue blogs on issues of importance. If you take something like penal reform, an underrated cause. Prisons, I think, are barbaric, but it’s not an easy problem to solve. There’s not a quick fix. Some people do need to be constrained in some way. The idea that there should be more blogs that track that and persistently deliver the message, “Something is wrong here.” Issues of animal welfare on blogs. Economics on blogs is doing pretty well and has for a while. It’s one of the healthier parts of the blogosphere. It’s very hard to blog philosophy. Maybe someone will figure it out. I tend to think it usually doesn’t work. Current events works. Partisan politics works. But single-issue blogs — maybe they’re not profitable, but I think, socially, they could have a big positive impact. Why do economics blogs work better than other fields? Other academic fields especially.…

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