Summer Update July 2, 2009
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I have decided that this blog needs a summer break as much as I do, or perhaps it’s the other way around. I am however not abandoning this blog, and promise to return to blogging during the first week of September. But in July and August I want to concentrate on some other things. I will be in Europe (Sweden and Poland) from July 15 to August 31. I do however promise to check my email almost every day.
I wish all blog visitors an enjoyable summer!
My Virtual Visit to Pakistan April 19, 2009
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I was interviewed by the Pakistani Spectator last night. You can read the interview here: http://www.pakspectator.com/interview-with-blogger-david-emanuel-andersson/
The Pakistani Spectator mainly posts articles about politics and entertainment with a focus on – you guessed it – Pakistan.
My Favorite Blogs December 10, 2008
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On the right-hand side of this page is a list of the blogs that I read once in a while. Some of the bloggers are pretty opinionated, and my interest in their blogs does not imply that I endorse their views. However, I find them interesting for one reason or other.
Gus diZerega is a political scientist and the editor of a new on-line journal, Studies in Emergent Order. I have met with Gus, and I would put him in the category of knowledgable eclectic fusionists. He is not only a political scientist; he’s also a big-tent liberal, an environmentalist, an evolutionary theorist, and a Pagan.
I have not met Kevin Carson, but I have read his first book and corresponded with him. While I do not agree with some of his economics and policy prescriptions, I think he does a good job in identifying how the institutional structure in the US often amounts to structural as opposed to targeted corporate welfare. Kevin is an independent writer and a left-wing market anarchist.
Marginal Revolution is the most visited economics blog on the web. It is the brainchild of Tyler Cowen, an economics professor at George Mason University. I would describe Cowen as an open-minded market-friendly centrist.
Organizations and Markets is the product of two new institutional economists with Austrian leanings; Peter Klein of the University of Missouri and Nicolai Foss of Copenhagen Business School. Klein is a much more active blogger than Foss. Klein seems to have a Rothbardian political philosophy, while Foss seems primarily influenced by Oliver Williamson and Yoram Barzel, as well as Hayek. While I like their blog, I dislike their cultural conservatism.
The main blogger at the Austrian Economists is Peter Boettke, who like Cowen is a professor at George Mason University. Although he is an extremely knowledgable economist familiar with many different schools of thought, I disagree with his view that Mises was the greatest economist of the 20th century and that public choice theory by-and-large explains the behavior of politicians (in my view, public choice offers a partial explanation of the behavior of some politicians and most interest groups). Steve Horwitz of St. Lawrence University is an occasional participant with a more Hayekian approach. I have met Steve and think that he is one of the more open-minded and creative contemporary Austrians.
Think Markets is a new blog by Austrian economists in the New York region. I haven’t met any of them except for Bill Butos. But I have read books by Roger Koppl (Farleigh Dickinson University) and Mario Rizzo (NYU). In fact, I wholeheartedly recommend their books; “Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations” by Koppl (2002) and “The Economics of Time and Ignorance” by Rizzo and Gerald O’Driscoll (1985).
