A new Canadian economics blog

July 19, 2006 · by · in General · 6 Comments

A new blog popped up while I’ve been on vacation: true dough, written by a prolific (averaging about 2 posts a day!), anonymous (so far) woman who is a welcome addition to the still-way-too-small club of Canadian economics bloggers.

6 comments

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    true dough · ·

    Sir,
    Thank you kindly for the welcome and the publicity! You can expect me to be less prolific now that my procrastination of my school work has reached an all-time maximum. I look forward to slacking off again real soon.
    Cheers.

  2. Christine's avatar
    Christine · ·

    So why is it that there are so few Canadian economics blogs, and perhaps more importantly so few commenters, relative to, say, Australia (the other country I happen to know about)? Seems odd.

  3. Unknown's avatar
    Stephen Gordon · ·

    I don’t know. My own theory was my first post when I started this blog last September, but if you say things are different in Australia, then I may have to reconsider.

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    Christine · ·

    Well, your first point was “We’re Canadian”, so not too much rethinking required šŸ™‚
    Australian economics or economicsy blogs: Kalimna, CoreEcon, Andrew Leigh, John Quiggin, Catallaxy, Club Troppo … all are pretty good reads, and seem to have formed into quite the community, from what I can tell.

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    Brian Ferguson · ·

    The Australian newspapers always used to have more discussion of economic issues than Canadian ones (discussion as opposed to reportage). More press commentary by economists, as well. And back when I was there, Australian economists seemed to have more of a community than Canadian economists had, even if they spent much of their time arguing with each other. I certainly wasn’t remotely surprised to see that John Quiggin had taken up blogging.

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    Christine · ·

    It is my impression that Australian newspapers focus more on economics than Canadian equivalents, but a lot my impression was probably formed during a period of rather large economic changes for Australia, so hard for me to be sure on it.
    Also: Australian unis are typically better at distance ed than Canadians, I think – maybe being isolated geographically has something to do with propensity to blog?