Top 15 economics and finance blogs

Top 15 economics blogs (i.e., competitors).

1. http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ (Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize 2008, Princeton U.; one of Time magazine's top 25 blogs, together with Freakonomics)

2. http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/author/joseph-e-stiglitz/ (Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Prize 2001).

3. http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/ Brad DeLong (UC-Berkeley)

4. http://economistsview.typepad.com/ Mark Thoma (U. of Oregon) (which also includes a very comprehensive list of economists blogs on the right side column; he was my Professor at UofO).

5. http://rodrik.typepad.com/ Dani Rodrik, Harvard U. (on development economics)

6. http://freakonomics.com/blog/ run by Steven Levitt (U. of Chicago) and Stephen Dubner (journalist), co-authors of the book.

7. http://www.econbrowser.com/ James Hamilton, UCSD; and Menzie Chinn, U. of Wisconsin (also an extensive list of blogs on the right hand column).

8. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/ (Felix Salmon, on Finance and Economics)

9. http://angrybearblog.com/ (“Slightly left of center economic commentary on news, politics, and the economy.”, run by a group of economists and finance Ph.D.s)

10. http://www.economonitor.com/analysts/ (RGE Analysts, Chairman Nouriel Roubini, NYU).

Media sites:

11. http://www.ft.com/intl/comment/blogs (Financial Times blogs. They are all great. Especially Buiter, Crook, Wolf, and Alphaville)

See, in particular, the Economic Forum: http://blogs.ft.com/economistsforum/

12. http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/ (Economics blog on The Economist)

13. http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/econochat EconoChat captures Tom Keene's thoughts on economics, finance and investment

14. http://seekingalpha.com/ (More financial than economics)

15. http://business.time.com/category/curious-capitalist/  Rana Foroohar is TIME's assistant managing editor in charge of economics and business.

Honorable mention.  http://www.progressive-economics.ca/  Progressive Economics Forum.

I would have added Brad Setser (http://blogs.cfr.org/setser/), but he has joined the Obama administration.

Here are competing lists:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124769381962047691.html (Wall Street Journal)

Whose economics blog is: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics

http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1873144-3,00.html (Time CNN)

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article1923706.ece (The Times, UK).

http://www.econolog.net/stats.php?area=blogs  (Palgrave).

http://www.intute.ac.uk/blog/2008/03/12/favourite-blogs-economics/ (Intute, UK).

UPDATE:  Links have been updated as of December 2013.