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Review two blogs from this list of the 100 best blogs for economics students. Make sure they are from different categories, and don't repeat one that someone else has already done. Yes I realize that this means you will have to check the previous posts to see which ones have already been reviewed. The sooner you do this one the easier it will be. Reviews need to include:
1) Content
2) Appearance
3) Ease of Navigation
4) Apparent bias
http://www.onalytica.com/blog/posts/top-200-most-influential-economics-blogs/
Blog: Freakonomics
ReplyDeletehttp://freakonomics.com/podcast/who-needs-handwriting/
Content: This blog contains a radio podcast, books & magazines, lectures, and articles pertaining to questions & riddles of everyday life.
Appearance: The contents are broken into tiles and the interface looks quite clean and I found it easy to read.
Ease of Navigation: It's relatively easy to navigate. You have a search bar on top and the hot topics that you need are right in front of you. It's simple and minimal.
Apparent Bias: Articles here seem mostly informative and are written by economic experts who answer puzzling questions. There is a bit of humor, but no one-sided things are taken into account in general.
Blog: iMFdirect
https://blog-imfdirect.imf.org/
Content: The blog seems to have international substance regarding the economy. Content is arranged on topics like tax growth, GDP, economic research, etc for a variety of countries.
Appearance: The moment you land in this blog, it looks as if the interface is outdated. The blog is powered by Wordpress and is small in terms of posts. The links in my opinion seemed to be overcrowded.
Ease of Navigation: I found it not easy to look for some topics and articles. Pictures and the alignment of some articles aren't up-to-date, but I found it interesting that there are tags that link to similar blog posts.
Apparent Bias: I found no clear indication of bias in a couple of the blog posts that I looked at. Many of them are informational and give statistics regarding economic research.
Yousuf Sirajuddin, Period 2nd
Blog: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/
ReplyDeleteContent: This blog mainly contains blog posts but also features graphs, videos and pictures.
Appearance: The blog posts are organized by the date they were published. Each post has a title of its own and many have links to other websites, data, videos and quotes to provide evidence for the author's stances.
Ease of Navigation: While the author does not have a Blog Archive that lists posts by categories or date published, there is a search bar at the top that allows you to search his blog posts by topics. The layout is simple: as readers scroll down, the latest posts are read first and older posts come later.
Apparent Bias: The blog seems to be more critical of the Republican party and than the Democratic party. Furthermore, the title of his blog is "The Conscience of a Liberal", connoting that the author is a liberal. Many of the posts seem to be about politics and analyzing contradictory positions between Republican Presidential candidates.
Blog: http://ecologicalheadstand.blogspot.co.uk/
Content: Same as the blog above, this blog mainly contains blog posts but also features graphs, videos and pictures.
Appearance: The blog seems to dark for the eyes - I get tired looking at the grey. The background on the left side is completely grey and the background on the right side is black. The text is black as well, signifying how bleak the author's life is.
Ease of Navigation: The organization of the blog is the same as the blog above: the posts get older as the reader scrolls down. The most important topics, in the author's opinion, is linked at the top of the blog and popular posts are linked on the right-hand side. The author has a Blog Archive on the bottom right, which serves as a search box by arranging the blog posts by date published.
Apparent Bias: There does not seem to be an apparent bias because the content of the blog does not focus on politics. Rather, it is strictly economics-based and tries to analyze the beliefs of prior economists. The only piece of information that would suggest an apparent bias would be the title: "Ecological Headstand." It is a stretch to label the title as an apparent bias but a reader may think the author is a 'tree-hugger" and that he is against the fossil fuel industry.
Shalom Soman, Period 4
Tiffany Chan
ReplyDelete6th period
Ludwig von Mises Institute
Content: The blog mainly discusses about the Mises Institute and talks about upcoming events as well as articles about economics.
Appearance: It is put together nicely and has tabs for nearly everything.
Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to navigate and is very organized.
Apparent Bias: It is mainly sided towards the Mises Institute involving their students.
The Big Picture
Content: This blog ranges from covering entertainment to recent news.
Appearance: Each article has an introduction of what they talk about so it looks very structured.
Ease of Navigation: It is very easy to navigate and is very simple.
Apparent Bias: There appears to be little to no sense of bias in this blog. It mainly contains facts. The only sense of bias I see is the entertainment portion of the blog which consists mainly of opinions.
Sarah Sam
ReplyDelete6th period
Naked Capitalism
Content: The blog mainly discusses present issues and popular topics such as the presidential race.
Appearance: It's nothing special. It could use some color or graphic.
Ease of Navigation: It is very easy to navigate because of its simplicity.
Apparent Bias: There is little to no bias. They present the facts about both political parties without favoring another.
Marginal Revolution
Content: The blog discusses current events, and even focuses on international news.
Appearance: It is okay, a bit disorganized.
Ease of Navigation: It's a bit hard to navigate on this site since there are no tabs.
Apparent Bias: There is no apparent bias since it gives only the facts.
Veronica Wang
ReplyDeletePeriod 4
Liberty Street Economics
1) Content: focuses on US economy, very few to none international mentions, targets issues that affect middle class
2) Appearance: minimalist, kept colors on website to neutral tones (white and blue), pictures per post to preview article
3) Ease of Navigation: navigation bar at top, provides preview for each article with button to continue reading article if interested
4) Apparent bias: favors a liberal point of view by backing democratic ideas
Irish Economy
1) Content: as name suggests, all content pertains to Ireland, any mention of international countries are connected back to Ireland
2) Appearance: very basic, seems to be a template with no modifications done to the design
3) Ease of Navigation: posts are categorized by topics/date of post, easy to find posts on a certain topic
4) Apparent bias: favors small government with less power given to them and more to the people
Jonathan Ungar
ReplyDelete4th Period
Falkenblog
1. Content: This blog focuses on different laws in economics. Such as the Low Volatility Effect. Although his most recent post is called "An economists rational road to Christianity" So the blog covers a long list of subjects and ties them to economics.
2. Appearance: Nothing fancy. It's actually very plain. It has a basic black background. That's it.
3. Ease of Navigation: Posts are separated by year on the right side of the page. Along with links to other articles, etc. Very simple and easy.
4. Apparent Bias: There is none since the other states mostly facts.
Don't Worry, I'm an Economist!
1. Content: The author writes mostly about books he's been reading. And of course they are books about economics.
2. Appearance: Has a nice light blue dark blue combo going that looks nice. And has a cool picture of superman with an E on his chest. I wonder what that stands for..
Ease of Navigation: Top has links to other subjects, while on the right has different news feeds. Seems to focus on European news.
Apparent Bias: No bias since he mostly reviews books.
http://delong.typepad.com/
ReplyDeleteContent: Covers a wide variety of topics, from economics to politics related to economics, but is mainly focused on recommending books to read
Appearance: Unappealing, as there is too much text in such a small space, all in the same few colors
Ease of Navigation: Although hyperlinks are used, many are squashed together and can be hard to find
Apparent Bias: The blog authors claim that there is no bias, as he says policy is wrong when it is ruled by ideology
http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/p/about-calculated-risk.html
Content: Focuses on the U.S. Economy, more specifically its current ups and downs related to trade, oil, and employment
Appearance: Complicated, as this website is verbose and cluttered with words
Ease of Navigation: Easy, with the 10 recent blog hyperlinks off to the right hand side, but confusing because the link will automatically take you to the most recent post, rather than a list of all the blogs
Apparent bias: none apparent, as he has gotten praise from a variety of reliable sources
Conclusion: Grand Puba's Blog is the best :)
Jackie Rosenthal
Period 4
Angry bear
ReplyDelete1) Content: This blog has several different articles on many subjects in politics, not just the economy.
2) The colors are very plain: black and white. The only colors appear when you scroll over the headings at the top of the page.
3) Ease of Navigation: There's a search bar and a header at the top of the page, and there are links to articles on the side of the main articles, making navigation relatively easy.
4) There is no apparent bias towards any parties.
A Fistful of Euros
1) Content: This blog is about different topics that relate to European countries, like their politics and economics.
2) Appearance: The background has color and there's a big picture at the top that makes the blog not so boring to look at.
3) Ease of Navigation: The navigation is very simple with the headings at the top of the page and the links on the right side of the page.
4) Apparent Bias: There does not seem to be any apparent bias since the blogger does a good job of either not taking sides or explaining several sides of an argument.
Fatima Wahid
2nd Period
Blog one: WTF Finance
ReplyDelete1) Content: Information on general Business, News, the Stock Market, Politics, Commodity, Real Estate and Economic Data
2) Appearance: has a logo that bears resemble to an infinity sign. as a menu at the top. Blue and green color scheme.
3) Ease of Navigation: Very easy due to the menu at the top of the screen
4) Apparent Bias: seems to be very neutral as it holds articles from all over the world and explains points from different perspectives
Blog two: Think Progress
1) Content: Has articles on Climate, the Economy, Health, Justice, LGBT, World, Culture, Sports, Politics and more.
2) Appearance: Dark back scheme with colorful overlay
3) Ease of Navigation: easy due to the menu at the top of the page as well as a home button
4) Apparent Bias: This blog seems to be very liberal
A fistful of Euros
ReplyDelete1) Content: This blog has a wide variety of economic articles mainly revolving around Europe and the European Union.
2) Appearance: It seems very well kept and new articles are posted relatively frequently.
3) Ease of Navigation: The blog has both a left hand column that categorizes key topics but also a range of tabs that show the most heavily discussed topics.
4) Bias: There does not seem to be a bias in this blog. The articles are all written very professionally and informatively.
Multiplier Effect
1)Content: This blog covers a lot of different questions about current events and tries to answer them rationally.
2)Appearance: There are different videos and interactions other than the blogger just writing information.
3) Ease of Navigation: This blog is somewhat more difficult to navigate, as it is harder to find a specific topic without scrolling through all the past posts.
4) Bias: There does not seem to be a bias from the blogger as they make a point to bring up argument from both sides.
Isabelle Tzeng ; 6th
Blog:Thomas palley
ReplyDelete1.Content: The author writes mainly about fallacies, theories and othe economics news
2.Apperance- the set up looks ok but it could be more appealling with more colors.
3.Ease of Navigation there are several links that lead you where you need to go and they are not hard to find
4.Apparent bias: there is no bias cause he talks about random stuff
Blog:Truth on the Market
1.Content: author writes about scandals that
2.Apperance: the site looks really good and there is a nice color scheme
3.Ease of Navigation: everything is set up in way that makes it easy to navigate
4.Apparent bias there is no apparent bias
Economists Do It With Models
ReplyDelete1.Content: This blog has many article about how economists use model to make market efficient and influence people's lives.
2.Appearance: The blog designed really well, looks really nice. There have many great articles post frequently, and people give notes on each blog.
3.Ease of Navigation: The blog has navigated categories on the left column. But the blog shows the form as Tumblr, so a little bit hard to search for detailed contents.
4.Bias: I did not find clear indication of bias in a couple of the blog posts that I looked at. Many of them are inserted with link of article or video, and explained well with statistics regarding economic research.
U.S Food Policy
1.Content: This blog is mostly about government's control over food nutrition, food industry and management, and striving.
2.Appearance: It has same format as Mr.Pye's blog page, well organized with specific date.
3.Ease of Navigation: You can only search the articles by date.
4.Bias: I think there has no bias occurred, because each article is about how to regulate food production to make people's lives better and easier.
Jiayu Wang
DeletePeriod 4th
Blog: Rortybomb
ReplyDelete1)Content: This blog provides information on financial reform, unemployment and a progressive vision of the economy.
2)Apperance: Pretty simple, but effective at presenting information
3)Ease of Navigation: Very easy to navigate.
4)Bias: Openly states that the blogger has a progressive bias and also writes about inequality.
Why Nations Fail
1)Content: Discusses why some nations are divided by things like wealth, poverty food and famine and other things
2)Appearance: Website seems to replicate the cover of the book the bloggers wrote
3)Ease of Navigation: Easy to navigate.
4)Bias: No apparent bias
Poju Adeogba
Period 2
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ReplyDeleteBlog: Fight Entropy
ReplyDelete1)Content: In accordance with its name, this blog is about how Earth is affected by human development and the relationship of the environment to economic development.
2) Appearance: It is slightly plain, with just one header banner and that's really all. But font is easy to see and the blogs are easy to understand and give one's own opinion.
3) Ease of Navigation: The website is easy to navigate but I think there are a little too many tabs on the top which can cause confusion.
4) Bias: The creators are leaning environmentalists, so they would support global protectionism initiatives and support them on their blog. (Democratic leaned)
http://www.fight-entropy.com/
Blog: Auganomics
1) Content: This blog is about the political economy of water, and heavily invested in topics such as Water Management, Environmental
Awareness and International Development.
2) Appearance: This is a very eye-pleasing blog page. It has a tidal shaped blue background with a blue writing wall. I find it appealing to site-goers.
3) Ease of Navigation: The site is also very easy; you can scroll down to find interesting articles and pictures with the tabs located on the side.
4) Bias: Like the other blog, this blog cares about global protectionism and would support initiatives that will not harm the planet and the water supply for our people. (Democratic leaned)
Omar Khadimally - Period 2
http://blog.mpettis.com/
ReplyDeleteContent: The blogs mostly focus on the monetary policy, trade policy, and the development of the banking and financial markets in China.
Appearance: The site is very simple and organized. It has a clean appearance that gives it a sophisticated atmosphere when reading the blogs. It also shows its biased toward the China because of the background.
Ease of Navigation: The site is very organized which makes it easy to navigate. There are many different tabs with specific topics that make it easy for the reader to find articles on their desired topics.
Bias: There appears to a be a bias toward the Chinese markets because the author lives and works in China.
http://pastspeaks.com/
Content: This blog includes perspectives on the Evolution of States, Markets, and economic culture. The most recent article posted was about a law passed in 2015 being a Modern Slavery Act” that deals “with British companies profiting from modern day slavery in their supply chains.”
Appearance: The blog appears quite dull because of the excessive use of grey as the background. However, a little splash of color at the top of the page helps even out the dull look.
Ease of Navigation: The site was easy to navigate because of the organized structure and uncluttered format.
Bias: There doesn't appear to be a bias because of the author's credibility in various institutes and organizations.
Ana Salim-4th period
Blog: Global Health Blog
ReplyDelete1)Content: This article talks about World Health Organization about sickness being spread to many areas.
2)Appearance: This article is very interesting for me. It gives a reteach of WHO, the concept I learned in Human Geography last week.
3)Ease of Navigation: This site is not hard to understand, but there are lots of articles that have a similar situation of the Global Health Blog
4)Bias:The WHO has not been able to admit that national governments, not the WHO office, not the CDC was in charge for stating the outbreak a public health emergency.
http://karengrepin.com/
Blog:Environmental and Urban Economics
1)Content: This blog talks about the gas price of cars in USA is going up
2) Appearance: This is very short and interesting. It has a nice ribbon hanging out on the left corner of the page showing the date.
3)Ease of Navigation: This is simple to understand; if you scroll down you will see lots of articles that are short and simple to understand.
Bias: This blog states that the author wants the gas prices to be affordable for the drivers whenever they travel.
http://greeneconomics.blogspot.co.uk/
Blog 1: Supply and Demand (in that order)
ReplyDelete1)Content: use the basics of supply and demand to understand and predict everyday events in our world. Talks about issues related to the Redistribution Recession of 2008-2009, fiscal policy, labor economics, and industrial organization.
2)Appearance: Simple layout, and a pretty comment way of presenting information. Doesn't seem to be very frequently updated
3)Ease of Navigation: relatively simple to navigate.
4)Bias: Post more about the Republican party.
Blog 2: Econbrower
1)Content: analysis of current economic conditions and policy
2)Appearance: very simple and boring but updates frequently.
3)Ease of Navigation: very easy to navigate
4)Bias: seems to be more on the Democratic side. provides more statistics and gives more facts to support analysis than the first blog.
Sophia Lian
2nd Period.
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteContent: Mankiw's blog provided a good amount of information about current update on different parts of our economy. What I found amusing was that his posts came through as very personal and as if he was just having a normal conversation with another behind the screen, feeding them with all sorts of news of the economy.
Appearance: It is very simple, with a white back ground and LOTS of words.
Ease of Navigation: It is very easy to navigate because on the side bar, he offers many useful links, previous posts and advice for students. Everything is easy to get to since he links essays or other important articles he wishes his followers to read.
Apparent Bias: There is not any significant bias. The entries are straightforward thoughts on different economic issues.
Brad Delong
Content: The content on this website is very different and weird. The blogs that are posted do not have a set theme. It just seems like the blogger is posting what he feels is interesting for the day.
Appearance: The appearance is really old school. The website does not have an appealing look that would make me want to return to read more material.
Ease of Navigation: It was pretty difficult because there is a lot information on the site and the labels of each new page were not clear.
Bias: it was unclear for me to see if Delong was being bias since his way of writing was already difficult.
Britney Stephen, Period 4
Blog 1: The Policy Center
ReplyDelete1)Content: This blog provides people opinions and facts about conflict going around the United States mostly about 2016 election with Democrats and Republicans.
2)Appearance: This blog has a nice layout and simple theme to it very organized.
3)Ease of Navigation: Has very easy access to certain articles and a question base to ask people about the articles.
4)Apparent Bias: There is no bias this blog is open to any world news.
Blog 2: The Undercover Economist
1)Content: This blog is based off articles of world news and resources to other economists.
2)Appearance: The blog is very organized and detailed to find anything you are looking for.
3)Ease of Navigation: This blog is very easy to navigate to find what your are looking for.
4)Apparent Bias: This bog is not bias to any certain people only for economists.
Karina Guerrero
4th period
http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/
ReplyDelete1) Content : This blog appears to provide information related to the United States food policy.
2) Appearance : This website uses blogspot, and appears slightly outdated and aged
3) Ease of Navigation : It was easy to use, and the addition of labels helped to find related articles.
4) Apparent bias : The blog appears to provide a neutral prospective and seems to be unbiased.
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http://www.theconglomerate.org/
1) Content : This blog appears to provide information related to business, law, economics, and society
2) Appearance : Even though the blog uses TypePad, it appears up to date, and professional.
3) Ease of Navigation: The blog was very easy to navigate, and the tags made it easier to navigate.
4) Apparent bias: While they seem neutral, they tend to have a tint of liberalism.
Chris Varghese
Period 6
Blog 1: http://www.simoleonsense.com/
ReplyDelete1.) The content of the website consists of short and concise articles which makes it pretty easy to read.
2.) The appearance of the blog is pretty bland, I honestly thought I was at a redirection site.
3.) The website is kind of weird to navigate because there are things on the sidebar and also articles on the home page.
4.) I would not use this website to do research or to even look at since it looks pretty bland. It seems pretty neutral.
Blog 2: http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/
1.) This website is set up more as a blog than a resource for an economist.
2.) This website also looks pretty bland, I would fall asleep scrolling through it.
3.) It's pretty easy to navigate, there are no links that redirect to other places, it just goes straight down.
4.) Everything is pretty biased towards this man's perspective.
Dahlia Chandrahasan, 4th period
http://www.greenomics.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteContent: This blog focuses more on environmental policies and its connection with the economy. It talks about policies regarding about the environment and how it relates to our economy. Its main purpose is to focus on the connection between the environment and the economy.
Appearance: The blog has a simple yet straightforward appearance. Each and every entry is arranged in a chronological order by date. The words are clearly written and can easily be read.
Navigation: It can be easily navigated because each entry post are organized in a chronological order by date. It also made us of the different font styles to emphasize the message of the blog.
Bias: In my opinion, there is no apparent bias in this blog based on the fact that it is straightforward and simple. It clearly states its message by providing evidence to support his/her message.
http://community.cengage.com/gecresource2/info/b/gec_blog/
Content: In this blog, its main purpose is to examine the global economy. It states many blog post in which mainly talks about our economic situation and how it affects the world around us.
Appearance: In my opinion, this blog’s appearance is simplistic. It provides illustrations to make it easier for readers to understand the message intended to make it across.
Navigation: It is easy to navigate this blog because of the simple commands and keys that can be used. It is sorted by most recent, most views and most comments in which it makes it easier for readers to view the blog post they intended to read.
Bias: In my opinion, there is no apparent bias because it provides evidence that supports the message.
Rifa Shah
Period 4
Interfluidity
ReplyDeletehttp://www.interfluidity.com/
Content: This blog is all by one person (Steve Randy Waldman) and his blog is mainly about political views and the policies that are enacted in our government.
Appearance: The blog is shown in chronological order as soon as you click on it. The newest post being at the top of the page and the oldest posts at the bottom.
Navigation: The blog has the main page with all the posts and a side bar with months and years such as April 2010 which shows all the posts during that month when clicked.
Bias: There is bias in the blog as he posts about his political views, mainly how he supports Bernie Sanders currently and the democratic party in general
Chris Blattman
http://chrisblattman.com/
Content: This blog is like a daily news column showing just about anything from the economics of today's pop industry to help with things in daily life like what podcasts he recommends.
Appearance: This blog is also in chronological order with a side bar containing general topics that he posts about which show the blog posts under that topic when clicked.
Navigation: Easy to navigate as everything new is on the main page and anything you want to look at specifically is mainly found on the side bar and if not there is a search bar.
Bias: There isn't really any bias in this blog as it posts about many random topics and just gives perspective on things.
Environmental Economics
ReplyDeletehttp://www.env-econ.net/
Content: This blog consists of medium length of articles about the environmental factors affect the economics.
Appearance: This blog is pretty organized and lists all the posts according to the chronological order.
Navigation: This blog has all the posts with theirs link as the title and easy to read the whole post if click on the title.
Bias: This blog is pretty neutral on its political view
Core Economics
http://economics.com.au/
Content: This blog consists of all the important events of economics of countries from the world.
Appearance: Pretty much the same as the first one
Navigation: This blog looks mostly the same as the first one except the link is at the bottom of the article and has a button to view the previous and next pages.
Bias: Same as first one, there is no bias involeved.
ZhiQi Jiang
2nd Period
Blog: Growthology
ReplyDeleteContent: The blog consists of of many articles detailing entrepreneurship
Appearance: The blog is neatly organized with with chronlogical listings of the articles as well as a search engine.
Navigation: The blog is very easy to navigate
Bias: There seemes to be no apparent bias present.
Blog: EconomistMOM
Content: The blog consists of a mother updating the economy and as well as sharing her experiences as a mom
Appearance: The blog is neatly organized with the exception of small fonts present, thus making it harder to read some articles.
Navigation: The blog is very easy to navigate as it includes a menu on the side detailing all the items present.
Bias: There appears to be no bias present
Victoria Avila - 6th period
Econblog101
ReplyDeletehttps://econoblog101.wordpress.com/
Content: This blog focuses on the past and present economic statuses of many different places in the world. They contain videos, essays, photos, and review on essays/books.
Appearance: The websites seems to be very organized. It is centered which allows you to focus on the latest blogs. They also keep up with headlines and most recent post on the right of the screen.
Ease of navigation: It is fairly simple to navigate. There isn’t a search bar to help narrow a search, but they are arranged by dates. You are able to find blogs from 2007 to recent times, and can be labeled to many different categories to help search.
Apparent bias: There is no apparent bias in the blog, they do a good job trying to be well rounded. However if one does wish to comment they must be willing to subscribe.
DFID Bloggers
https://dfid.blog.gov.uk/
Content: The blog mainly contains blog about improvement in places surrounding the UK or close to its perimeter. Many of which include technological advances as well as, and debates.
Appearance: It looks very inviting and friendly. There is a color scheme/ pattern to let one know when a new blog start it is very well organized.
Ease of navigation: Very easy to navigate you can even search any news you know about them. It is very well organized the, for they arranged according to the date it was published, and has label to them to be able to narrow and specify on a certain story.
Apparent bias: The only type of bias this blog portrays is that it is really specific in terms of location. This website concentrates on the UK, not only on economy but latest news and progression of their location.
Cynthia Galán
Period 4
Economist's View
ReplyDeletehttp://economistsview.typepad.com/
Content: This blog mainly includes blog entries about international trade, employment rates, and how economy and politics intertwine.
Appearance: This site looks pretty simple and friendly. The layout is not complicated at all and seems very simple. It is definitely not tacky.
Easy of Navigation: This site is fairly easy to navigate. There is a Google search bar which helps a lot. There are a lot of links leading to different blog entrees and different times of the year, but that helps a lot as well.
Apparent bias: There does not seem to be an apparent bias in this economic blog. They do a good job at being well-rounded.
Bronte Capital
http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/
Content: This blog mostly contains information and blog entrees about Australia and European countries.
Appearance: This blog seems simple and friendly. It has a professional layout and color scheme. The blogs seem organized.
Ease of Navigation: The blog entrees were all super organized. There is a search bar, which makes searching for blog entrees easy. Also, you can choose to access different blog entrees by clicking on different months.
Apparent Bias: This blog focuses more on the Europeans Areas and Australia.
Karishma Shah
Period 2
The Money Illusion
ReplyDeletehttp://www.themoneyillusion.com/
1) Content: This blog is a collection of analytical pieces that discuss current events and how they affect monetary policy.
2.) Appearance: This blog is very simple in design and has very few navigations or options aside from a central page on which all the blogs are posted.
3.) Ease of Navigation: The blogs were very diverse in structure which did not give the blog an easy structure, but aside from that the website has very few options so its easy to navigate.
4.) Apparent Bias: The articles are usually based on US economics and is very democratic or moderate being that the publisher is very anti-Trump.
The Everyday Economist
https://everydayecon.wordpress.com/
Content: Articles and postings about monetary policy and its different variables, economic philosophers, and books that influence economics
Appearance: This blog is well designed, well structured and gives a very professional look that impresses the viewer.
Ease of Navigation: The blog being well designed with a clear and simple layout with a side tab that works as a table of contents gives the reader easy access.
Apparent Bias: The author has it out for Keynesians and Keynesian philosophies.
Babur Khan, 4th Period
Stumbling and Mumbling
ReplyDeleteContent : The extremity of economics in political and social life. He discusses important issues and how the economy is affected by it.
Appearance : Blog is not that easy to read, as the layout is simplistic and plain.
East of Navigation : Relatively easy to navigate because of the tabs located on the sidebar.
Apparent Bias: Not a fan of England. Also a fan of Ricardian economics.
Overcoming Bias
Content : Meant to be a neutral, non-biased blog that discusses different issues affecting both the political and economic issues of America.
Appearance : One of the better looking blogs I have seen. Bright and artistic.
Ease of Navigation : Also relatively simple to navigate through. Tabs on the right hand side and top allow one to easily find the subject they are looking for.
Apparent Bias : Claims to be against any sort of bias, but libertarian views can be seen.
Jenny George
6th Period
Coyote Blog
ReplyDeletehttp://www.coyoteblog.com/
1) Content: This blog mostly provides posts on how current political process affect economic conditions intermingled with personal anecdotes and opinions on the topics discussed
2)Appearance: the blog has a very basic design but feels cluttered
3) Ease of Navigation: the blog is rather simple to navigate and provides links to archives for each month in the past few years but you might need to do a bit of scrolling to find a post from a specific month and year
4) Apparent bias: the author has a relatively conservative economic viewpoint being very pro business and anti government
Historinhas
https://thefaintofheart.wordpress.com/
1) Content: This blog primarily focuses on how broad economic factors affect banking and employment, paying special attention to inflation's role in the economy
2) Appearance: the blog is very aesthetically pleasing and easy to read
3) Ease of Navigation:Although there are not too many navigating option besides scrolling through the feed, each post is tagged with a topic that will link you to other post concerning the same subject matter
4) Apparent Bias: the author is originally from Brazil and therefore offers a more global perspective about U.S. economic issues. Outside of that there is little no obvious bias
Logan Felton
Period 2
http://knowledgeproblem.com/
ReplyDelete1. Mostly focuses on supply and demand tactics in the current market, especially having to do with the oil fluctuations lately.
2. The appearance is very simple; it looks like a Weebly page with a less-than decent header picture, but everything else is moderately clean looking.
3. It's pretty easy to navigate around; the links are clear and there's an archive and subject divisions that lead to different areas of the blog.
4. No apparent bias.
http://www.adamsmith.org/about-us/
Content: This blog is meant to promote libertarian and free market ideas through research, publishing, media commentary, and educational programs.
Appearance: The blog has a very aesthetic look to it and is intuitive and straightforward for easy navigating.
Navigation: The navigation throughout this blog is simple enough due to its intuitive design and big buttons.
Bias: There is no apparent bias because it claims to be bipartisan, and we can always believe everything everyone says 100% of the time.
Jackie Landoski
Pd. 2
Cafe Hayek
ReplyDeletehttp://cafehayek.com/
1. Content: This blog focuses on what actions are best for the U.S. economy. It explores jobs, free trade, and more.
2. Appearance: The appearance is similar to that of any typical blog. The design is straightforward and does not include bright colors.
3. Ease of Navigation: The blog is easy to navigate. Scrolling down takes you to prior dates.
4. Apparent Bias: Due to the promotion of free trade and opposition to minimum wage raises, the blog holds traditionally conservative viewpoints and, thus, has a conservative bias.
Economic Policy Institute
http://www.epi.org/
1. Content: This page focuses on wage growth and desires to make wage growth America's top priority.
2. Appearance: It appears very professional and looks like a website, rather than a blog.
3. Ease of Navigation: Navigation is easy and simple due to tabs and labels. The search bar and headlines also increase ease.
4. Apparent Bias: There is an apparent liberal bias as there is advocacy towards higher wages. There are also many articles against free trade agreements like TPP and articles talking about income inequality. All of these are liberal viewpoints.
Prakul Suresh
Period 6
http://www.irisheconomy.ie/
ReplyDelete1. Content: This page provide commentary and information about the Irish economy. The opinions expressed on the site are personal and are from the individual contributors. The page gives information on how well or how bad the Irish people are doing.
2. Appearance: Its not very appealing for it only has two colors that go with it and it does not bring much attention. It is however, well structured.
3. Ease of Navigation: It is very easy to navigate as it has tabs on the side that help the viewer locate their desired topic.
4. Apparent Bias-There is no apparent bias as it focuses solely on the Irish economy.
http://usfoodpolicy.blogspot.com/
1. Content: This site is full of blogs that cover things that deal with food and policies and laws that relate to it. It talks about the environment, agricultural, obesity, and other topics that have to do with food in our nation. It is supposed to inform the public of the US changes.
2. Appearance: It is very professional and serious. It looks interesting as it has blogs that deal with different topics.
3. Ease of Navigation: It is very easy to navigate. The right side has tabs which one can select and go to.
4. Apparent Bias: There is no apparent bias. This site focuses on food and the many problems and issues that Americans face with it. It is very informative to the public.
Ashley Abraham
Period 6
Johan Fourie (http://johanfourie.wordpress.com/)
ReplyDelete1. Content: Fourie talks about the economic life and problems in South Africa.
2. Appearance: Clean and tidy.
3. Ease of Navigation: Clean. Articles are organized by dates and tags for easier searching.
4. Apparent Bias: None. Fourie seems to present realities on both sides of issues.
Everthing Finance (http://kelloggfinance.wordpress.com/)
1. Content: A renowned financial curriculum based on corporate policies and capital market dynamics.
2. Appearance: Professional and clean; though the content is narrow a bit too much.
3. Ease of Navigation: Simple and clean.
4. Apparent Bias: None, but possible it takes a liberal side of issues.
Derrick S.
2nd period
The Baseline Scenario-http://baselinescenario.com/
ReplyDelete1) Content - The baseline scenario talks about the problems faced by the economy and what we can do about it.
2) Appearance - Formal but it appears a bit plain.
3) Ease of Navigation - it is very easy to navigate through this blog
4) Apparent bias - no apparent bias other than it thinks there is financial crisis (if this is considered bias)
Donald Marron - http://dmarron.com/
1) Content - He talks about economics, nature, finance, and life.
2) Appearance - it has a simple attractive layout.
3) Ease of Navigation- It is not that easy to navigate but it is still do-able.
4) Apparent bias - He has bias since he blogs from his view and he states this.
Alex Ittoop-2nd
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ReplyDeleteMoneyScience
ReplyDeletehttp://www.moneyscience.com/pg/blog/EconometricsBeat/archive/1454306400/1456812000
Content: The blogs contain information primarily focused on financial aspects. The blog has information that ranges from pertaining to topics such as academics to trading systems and risk management.
Appearance: The blog is composed of different categories that are located on the side of the website. Each blog contains a link, brief information summary, and were organized according to the date; I had no difficulty reading.
Ease of Navigation: The navigation of this source was not a difficult one, I simply was able to click on a blog category and a range of recent posts pop up. There is not a lot of problems finding what you want to look for and if you do then there is a search bar. The link within the blogs posted can also lead you into the right direction.
Apparent Bias: The blogs presented do not appear to demonstrate or show any bias information. The information viewed presents mostly statistical information that was based on deep research and thought.
Open Economics
https://openeconomicsnd.wordpress.com/
Content: The blog contains information that is administered by students and alumni from the University of Notre Dame. The information talked about are of engaging and debating economics with the world.
Appearance: The blog is organized very simple and is not very complexed. The blog topics posted on the main screen are not up to date and the various discussed topics and links are located on the right of the screen.
Ease of Navigation: The blog is an easy one to navigate due to all of the link, posts, and various topics being located on the right side of the page; all you have to do is scroll and click on one. You may also on the right side of the page look at the previous dates archives to post or view something.
Apparent Bias: The blog is not bias as the information posted is free and based upon the opinion of others and not various employers or organizations. There is a wide range of opinions from what I read and they do not focus on side of a particular topic/argument.
The Oil Drum
ReplyDelete1) Content - They talk about energy and resources used for energy.
2) Appearance - Seems a bit outdated, but had a decent logo.
3) Ease of Navigation - it is very easy to navigate, due to the simple labels
4) Apparent bias - no apparent bias becasue they only talk about energy resources.
Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News
1) Content - They talk about making earth greener, and reducing waste.
2) Appearance - It had a lot of stuff in the first page which makes not so appealing, also it is very plain.
3) Ease of Navigation- It is not easy to navigate this page due to the many choices it presents.
4) Apparent bias - They are bias to the fact they will most likey side with the greener less wasteful side.
Shogan Tom
6th Period
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ReplyDeleteMainly Macro
ReplyDeletehttp://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk
1) Content: This website contains blog entries by Professor of Economic Policy, Simon Wren-Lewis. As mentioned in his professional title, the blog also revolves around the macro aspect of economic policy.
2) Appearance: The website is what one would consider a normal blog website. Nothing too extravagant or fancy to catch the readers eye.
3) Ease of Navigation: The website has two main links - past entries and Professor Simon Wren-Lewis' biography.
4) Apparent Bias - As a professor at Oxford University, the entries I read presented no bias opinion. He focuses on macro-economic issues worldwide for both economists and non-economists.
Winterspeak
http://www.winterspeak.com
1) Content - This blog is about financial (banking especially), social (Apple), and economics all put together. The main idea revolves around human interaction for the upcoming years.
2) Appearance - This blog has a very minimalistic appeal to it, as it is primarily white or light grey. It is easy on the reader's eye to focus on the article being read.
3) Ease of Navigation - This article also is very simple to navigate due to the only handful of links to navigate from. All choices are presented together on the right side.
4) Apparent Bias - Based on the articles I read, I did not detect any bias on this website. If anything, his wide knowledge on most topics, many being global, helps to not create any bias.
Amanda Bailey Miller p.6
Carpe Diem>>>> http://mjperry.blogspot.co.uk/
ReplyDelete1. This blog is run by Dr. Mark J. Perry, who consistently posts recent news and info relating to the market.
2. The website seems to have been inactive for quite some time, since the latest post was documented on May 13, 2015. Color scheme not very appealing.
3. Website contains links to various other economics sources as well as his own social media on the right.
4. Seems to be more focused on the economic aspects of housing despite posting articles for various other mediums.
Macro Man >>>> http://macro-man.blogspot.co.uk/
1. Website seems to be geared toward students and understanding the basics of macroeconomics. Seems to be a bunch of anonymous posters who post frequently (most recent post was March 10).
2. Website is well designed, looks like a helpful information website. Color scheme is average, but is not important for its role.
3. The website is very easy to navigate. It has a easy access menu bar on top that allows you browse content.
4. Seems to post many articles about graphs and interpretations.
Andrew Auyeung
period 2
With decline in world trade, is it end of globalisation?
ReplyDeletehttps://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/
1. Website contains many blogs and opinions about the controversial question on whether world trade has declined as commodity prices have crashed.
2. The website contains much valuable information, but not much color is provided, making it appear plain.
3. This website is very easy to access and use. It contains a search menu to access other categories on controversial issues relating to Economics.
4. There is no bias. All the information provided was factual and could be proven. Not many opinions were contained.
Undergraduate Economist. http://www.alexmthomas.com/
1. This website talks about the ratio between assets and debt amongst the rich and the poor.
2. The website looks well designed. Many colors are provided. Very informative and reliable source of facts. It also contains many blogs. There are a couple tabs on the top right corner.
3. The website is easy to navigate. It contains many links to related articles above, the information is clear and easy to find.
4. The website contains factual information, written by economists, but they are from perspectives of economic students, so there is some bias in their writings.
Ayoub Nasraddine
Period 6
#23: http://theincidentaleconomist.com
ReplyDelete1) Content: The link leads to a blog page, they talk about anything related to economy and anything that could affect our economy. People discuss and post news as well to start a new article. articles branch of to any type of category. From food to hospitalized patients could be found in this articles.
2) Appearance: The appearance of the blog page is very simple, theres not much out of it but a very singular look to it.
3) Ease of Navigation: Navigating through this page is pretty simple, all links can be found left and right sides of the page and there is also a search engine on the top right of it.
4) Apparent bias: The website as mentioned earlier provides many different topics since is a blog page, anything related to economy is discussed in here.
#63 http://taxprof.typepad.com
1) Content: The page contains many different articles about taxes and tax issues with different companies and people.
2) Appearance: The looks of this page are very proffesional and simple, theres no distraction to the reader and it goes straight to the point.
3) Ease of Navigation: All links and search engine are found on top of the page there is also a recommended list of articles just slightly below to the right.
4) Apparent bias:Many of this post talk about tax issues and news. not much else is discussed besides it.
Eric Chong, 2nd Period
Kyle Newby Period 2
ReplyDeleteMacro Man (Gushing)
Content – Talks about how despite the recent fluctuations, the economy has a lot of positives going for it. The GDP estimates for the year have steadily gone up throughout the last several decades.
Appearance - The article is easy to read and has nice graphs to support the facts in the writing. However, the graphs are hard to read without zooming in.
Ease of Navigation – The blog is easy to navigate and allows you to read about relatable topics easily as well.
Apparent bias – There seems to be no bias by the author. The author is just trying to accurately inform the reader.
Mecpoc
Content – The article tells of a convention called the Mosler Economic Policy Centor (Mecpoc). It is an annual public event held at Franklin University Switzerland where economists and interested citizens are invited to discuss current economic global issues.
Appearance – The article is very clean and simple.
Ease of Navigation – The site is easy to navigate and has hyperlinks within the article to certain main topics if you are interested in learning more.
Apparent bias – There is no bias in this article. It is just informing the reader about what Mecpoc is.
Kyle Newby Period 4*
ReplyDeletehttp://www.petergordonsblog.com/?m=1
ReplyDeleteContent - Exploring the intersection of economic
thinking and urban planning/real estate development and related big-think themes.
Appearance: very simple but elegant. Easy to see what the blogs are about.
Ease of Navigation: very easy to look a d browse through different blogs. Nothing obstructing or confusing about the blog and what the entries are about
Aparent bias:No apparent bias. The author is simply discovering the intersection and involvement of real estate with the political factions of the US and the gov
http://www.halfsigma.com/blog/
Content: the blog comments on American politics and many different factors of the American government
Appearance: very urban and nice. It's single columed with a picture to give readers an idea of what the blog is about.
Ease of Navigation: very easy to navigate and see what each blog is about.
Bias: the blog does seem a little bias. Not extremely identifiable but does state that he is not longer fully liberal and praises Reagan for his conservative moment throughout the US after the Vietnam war
Leesa Cano period 6
Blog: John Quiggin - http://johnquiggin.com/
ReplyDeleteContent: this Blog mainly consists of random blog posts referring from WWI to the third party system.
Appearance:this website has a very sophisticated feeling.
Ease of Navigation: this website has links that lead toward recent blog posts as well as other topics.
Bias:This seems to be biased towards the third party system and against the inefficiency of this system.
Blog:Volokoh - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/
Content: this website seems to consist of trending topics such as gay rights, etc.
Appearance: the white and black website has a very simple style to it that is structured to make navigation easier.
Ease of Navigation: this website has articles that lead to the full story due to the heading leading to a link.
Bias: this Blog doesn't seem to be very biased and seems to be universal in all its views.
Chelsea Godfrey
Delete2nd period
Blog 1: Aguanomics
ReplyDeleteContent- This blog consists of posts about Water policy and economic factors for normal people.
Appearance- This website feels very warming and comfortable, almost like pyremicroecon.blogspot
Ease of Navigation- Simple and easy to navigate trhough posts and comments.
Bias- There appears to be no bias in this blog.
Blog 2: The Slack Wire
Content- This blog mainly consists of posts about Debt and investments.
Appearance- plain white background, not very welcoming.
Ease of Navigation- Easy to navigate, with a little bit of searching.
Bias- Not much Bias as everything is proven with statistical data and graphs.
Sean Moss 2nd
http://slackwire.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.aguanomics.com/
Blog 1: Economics and Psychology Research
ReplyDeletehttp://economicspsychologypolicy.blogspot.co.uk/
1. Content: The blog contains a number of key themes in the development of innovative and pragmatic survey design, which include the use of short-form psychometric measure and the facts of health and well-being.
2. Appearance: The blog starts off with a main concept, that it further explained in a few paragraphs.
3. Ease of Navigation: The format of which it is laid out in makes it easy to read and understand.
4. Apparent Bias: The blog is informative as it gives a detailed explanation about psychology and the economy. However, no particular viewpoint is favored over the other.
Blog 2: All Roads Lead to China
http://www.allroadsleadtochina.com/
1. Content: The blog talks about China and its relation to the rest of the world.
2. Appearance: The blog is formatted in which a question is presented, which is followed by a detailed explanation of the question.
3. Ease of Navigation: The format of the blog is very organized, which makes it easy for the reader to understand and follow along.
$. Apparent Bias: Since this blog talks about China and its economy, it doesn't really favor one aspect of the economy over the other aspect.
Neha Shah
Period 6
Blog 1: Cautious Bull
ReplyDeletehttps://cautiousbull.wordpress.com/
1. Content: This blog contains different articles about various recent stock market & economic analytic opinions.
2. Appearance: The appearance of the website is pretty plain and a tad wordy with long previews of each article.
3. Ease of Navigation: The website is pretty straight-forward and is easy to get around.
4.Apparent Bias: There doesn't seem to be much bias since everything is proven with statistics and graphs.
Blog 2: Uneasy Money
https://uneasymoney.com/
1. Content: This seems to be one long entry about monetary policy in the eyes of R.G Hawtrey.
2. Appearance: The second you open the link, the backdrop of (what I'm assuming) are endless pictures of Hawtrey himself really captures your eye.
3. Ease of Navigation: There isn't much navigation on this page as the whole commentary is typed out and available on the first page of the blog.
4. Apparent Bias: It's all in one point of view, so of course there is bias on the topic as everything is in the opinion of Hawtrey only.
Lameese Taha
6th period
Blog: ThinkMarkets
ReplyDeleteContent: There are articles on various subjects.
Appearance: The appearance is not very special and is basic.
Ease of access: It was okay. There is a search bar and menu.
Bias: No apparent bias.
Sunny Patil
4th period
Duncan's Economic Blog
ReplyDelete1. Content: The author focuses on politicians' economic maneuverings and macroeconomics.
2. Appearance: The site is very plain and neat.
3. Ease of Navigation: Very simple but effective search functions.
4. Bias: No apparent bias.
Pannell Discussions
1. Content: The author covers everything from music to psychology.
2. Appearance: The appearance is no-frills and neat.
3. Ease of Navigation: The tags makes content searchable.
4. Bias: No apparent bias.
Joyce
6th
Ralphanomics
ReplyDeletehttp://ralphanomics.blogspot.co.uk/
1. Content: The author primarily focuses on private debts and the present banking system
2. Appearance: the site is simple and formatted in a journal like way
3. Ease of Navigation: The site is very easy to navigate as each new entry is accessible by scrolling down the page
4.) large apparent bias against the national banking system as the author condemns the government for causing macro economic problems, private debt, and a failed banking system.
The Street Light
http://streetlightblog.blogspot.co.uk/
1. Content: The author's prime focus is analyzing transfer pricing economics in its arcane world and its broader presence in present financial world.
2. Appearence: The page is well organized and neat, very inviting.
3. Ease of Navigation: very accessible, each blog proceeds the one prior to it and there consists an entire bar of various headlines to click on and learn more about the topic.
4. Bias: No apparent bias as the topic revolves around the author simply analyzing transfer pricing economics with current news.
Mahnoor Malik
2nd Period
the el nino bust in California
ReplyDeletehttp://www.calculatedriskblog.com/
1. the author focused on the affect of the el nino on the California water supply
2.the page is well planned because it gives facts and graphs
3.it is a short blog so it is easy to find a fact again
4. the author is just stating the facts
Labour and Capital
http://labourandcapital.blogspot.co.uk/
1.the content is all about how the government is not doing anything for the labor
2. the paper seems to be leaning only one way and doesnt give the other side of things
3. the paper gives header to each subject when it changes to a different topic
4.there is a big bias because the author only talks about his belief and not what the government says why they are doing what they do.
David Sander
4th
ATANU DEY ON INDIA'S DEVELOPMENT
ReplyDeletehttp://deeshaa.org/2016/03/23/why-blogging-has-been-intermittent/#more-12627
1. Content: The author is focused on writing about why he or she has not posted on the blog for a while.
2. Apperance: The page is colorful but not on topic to what the title had bee
3. Ease of naviation: it is a short blog with not many facts just a personal story/ excuses, there is not much scrolling to do as it is short
4. there is some sort of bias as he or she analyzes the difficulties of posting a blog due to lawsuits and threats from people who read the blog in India.
History Squared
http://historysquared.com/
1. Content: The blog talks about how income makers are moving from places like California and New york to places like Texas because of the high tax rates.
2. Appearance: the page is well organized and short while also providing different graphs to support the data.
3. Ease of Navigation: fairly easy to navigate as it is short and one must only scroll down to access other resources
4. Bias: No real bias there is proof of the data
Aleena Mathew
6th
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