Interesting blogs, books, podcasts, movies on economics

Blogs

o http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/ Paul Krugman, nobel prize winner, updates several times a day, more or less left-wing, in favour of mix government and market

o http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/ Greg Mankiw, writer of one of most used introductory textbooks, teaches at Harvard

o http://www.voxeu.org/ Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading economistso http://www.freakonomics.com/

No introduction neededo http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/

Becker combines economics and sociology, Posner teaches law. One topic, two views.o http://marginalrevolution.com/ o http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/ o http://cafehayek.com/ right-wing, free market, made by a.o. the guy behind that rap video

Podcasts (all in iTunes store)

o BBC radio 4 analysiso Freakonomics radioo NPR Planet moneyo This American Life, the episode: “the invention of money”o BBC Radio 4 the bottom line with Evan Daviso EconTalk (from the guys of Café Hayek)o Tim Harford’s Pop-Up Economics

Books

Anything by Tim Harford, most notably “The logic of life” (microeconomics) and “The undercover economist strikes back” (macroeconomics)

Dan Ariely – Predictably Irrational (behavioral economics) Daniel Kahneman – Thinking, fast and slow (behavioral economics) Sylvia Nasar – Grand Pursuit (History of economic thought) Thaler and Sunstein – Nudge (Behavioral economics applied to policy making) Economix (comic book on the history of economic thought) Shiller - Irrational Exuberance (Nobel 2013, on bubbles)

Documentaries

Inside job (on the crisis of 2008) Masters of Money (BBC, 2012, on Hayek, Marx and Keynes)

Assorted:o That rap video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISS6B45MJk8&feature=related o Tim Harfords favourites are here http://timharford.com/2011/02/best-economics-podcasts/o http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124768581740247061.html

The top 25 economics blogs according to the Wall Street Journal