We would like to thank the readers and subscribers who have joined us since we started blogging in August of 2020. This has been a great experience. Special thanks to people who have linked to us. Most of our web traffic comes from the United States, but I am pleased to report that we receive visitors from almost every nation in the world.
We believe that the world is better when people keep learning. Reading and writing blogs is a good way to learn. All of the EWED writers have benefitted from reading other blogs. We want to put new facts and analysis into the pool.
Our three most-viewed posts so far for the year 2021 are
- Academic Publishing: How I think we got here by Mike Makowsky
- Coase and COVID by Jeremy Horpedahl
- GDP Growth in 2020 by Jeremy Horpedahl
Looking back to 2020, the most-viewed post was my Complacency and American Girl Dolls.
In winter of 2021 we got some new graphics, like the one below. The importance of the shipping container cannot be understated, for economic growth and trade. Every blog post individually is like one box, not very important on its own, a piece of the essential human discourse.
I see blogging as a complement to both research articles and Twitter. Blogs get published much faster than journal articles and they allow more depth than tweets. By writing a new post every day we stay accountable both to ourselves and to our readers.
The various EWED writers represent a range of opinions, but we all agree that blogging is a way to make “small steps toward a much better world”.
Economist Writing Every Day 