Resources

If you have appetite for some side dishes while enjoying your economic entrees (academic journals), you may find the following blogs and radio programs quick yet flavorful.

Economic Blogs

Originally I was planning to browse several blogs focusing on macro and growth regularly. However, I ended up with the following one as it is a one-stop shop, which provides a reasonably large menu for me to choose from.

• Economist's View: Mark Thoma, a macroeconomist at the University of Oregon, publishes a list of links or excerpts to other blog posts as well as posts of his own. You can find a long lists of links to other nutritious blogs in the econ-blogosphere on his blog page. He even classifies every link/post into over fifty categories, which facilitates readers to find the topics of their interests.

Podcasts

• EconTalk: a weekly talk show hosted by Russ Roberts, a research fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Featured interview guests range from renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize laureates, to small business owners. Topics include economic growth, free trade, technology, health care, education, finance, politics, and book reviews.

Links to my favorites

• Labor Markets
  • David Autor on Trade, China, and U.S. Labor Markets (EconTalk, 03/14/16): trade, China, manufacturing jobs.
  • Daron Acemoglu on Inequality, Institutions, and Piety (EconTalk, 11/03/14): income inequality, labor, institutions.
  • David Autor on the Future of Work and Polanyi's Paradox (EconTalk, 10/06/14): division of labor, information technology.
• Technology
  • Adam D'Angelo on Knowledge, Experimentation, and Quora (EconTalk, 08/08/16): knowledge sharing, machine learning.
  • James Bessen on Learning by Doing (EconTalk, 05/23/16): labor-saving technology, employment, standardization.
  • Pedro Domingos on Machine Learning and the Master Algorithm (EconTalk, 05/09/16): machine learning, big data.
  • Daphne Koller on Education, Coursera, and MOOCs (EconTalk, 08/25/14): education, Information technology.
  • McAfee, McArdle, and Ohanian on the Future of Work (EconTalk, 06/02/14): labor, Information technology.
  • Cochrane on Education and MOOCs (EconTalk, 03/31/14): education, Information technology.
  • Brynjolfsson on the Second Machine Age (EconTalk, 0203/14): growth, Information technology.