Economics blogs

Economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok post short takes and links on economics, policy, and current affairs.

Top post: Laissez-Faire in Tokyo Land Use (why Tokyo Is Cheaper Than SF)

ZeroHedge is an anonymously run finance and news site mixing market commentary, macro analysis, and political and conspiracy-leaning content.

Top post: The Full Story Behind Bloomberg's Attempt to “Unmask” Zero Hedge

The blog of a data-driven content company, publishing stories on economics, pricing, and business history, such as the diamond industry.

Top post: Joe Bankman: Tax Hero

Strong Towns, a nonprofit, argues that American cities and suburbs are financially fragile and proposes building towns that pay for themselves.

Top post: Why Many Cities Have No Money

Noah Smith writes about economics, public policy, manufacturing, China, and technology, with a focus on data and charts.

Top post: Interview: Marc Andreessen, VC and tech pioneer

Econlib is a free-market economics site from the Liberty Fund, hosting essays, a library of classic texts, and a podcast.

Top post: I, Pencil (1958)

Robin Hanson, an economics professor at George Mason, writes about social signaling, prediction markets, forecasting, and future technologies like brain emulations.

Top post: My Favorite Liar (2008)

Horace Dediu analyzes technology markets, Apple, mobile, and disruption theory, using data on company performance and industry shifts.

Top post: Apple now strives to design and build products that last as long as possible

Current Affairs is a left-leaning magazine publishing essays and criticism on politics, architecture, media, and public intellectuals.

Top post: Why people hate contemporary architecture (2017)

Marshall Brain writes about automation, robots, and the economy, and is the author of the science fiction story Manna.

Top post: Manna – AI Utopia or Dystopia? By Marshall Brain

Paul Krugman, Nobel-winning economist and New York Times columnist, writes about macroeconomics, Bitcoin, deflation, inequality and automation.

Top post: Krugman on BitCoin

Works in Progress is a magazine of essays on economic growth, housing, science, and technology, focused on progress and how things get built.

Top post: The housing theory of everything (2021)

GiveWell is a nonprofit that researches charities and recommends the ones it finds save or improve the most lives per dollar.

Top post: Our Top Charities

LSE Blogs collects posts from London School of Economics academics on economics, politics, history, academia, and book reviews.

Top post: How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)

Financial data site offering calculators and statistics on income, net worth percentiles, stock returns, and home prices in the US.

Top post: Income Percentile Calculator for the United States

Matt Stoller writes a newsletter on antitrust, monopoly power, and corporate consolidation in the US economy.

Top post: Why Wall Street Gets a Bailout and You Don't

Tom Murphy, a physics professor at UCSD, runs numbers on energy, resources, and economic growth to test whether they can continue.

Top post: Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist (2012)

Barry Ritholtz is a finance writer and fund manager who blogs about markets, economics, investing, and charts.

Top post: Organizational Charts of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google

Lyn Alden, an investment strategist, writes long essays on money, inflation, the dollar, and Bitcoin.

Top post: The fraying of the U.S. global currency reserve system

Group blog by academics covering economics, political science, sociology and philosophy.

Top post: In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012)

Wolf Richter writes on finance, housing, inflation, the Fed, and the economy, often skeptical of startup valuations and official statistics.

Top post: Today’s Unicorns Have Bigger Cumulative Losses Than Amazon

Matthew Yglesias writes about US politics and policy, including housing, public health, and economics.

Top post: We could have universal Covid vaccines soon

Casey Handmer, a physicist and founder of Terraform Industries, writes about Starship, solar power, and space industrialization.

Top post: Starship is still not understood

Cato Unbound is a Cato Institute web journal where invited writers debate libertarian ideas, policy, and technology.

Top post: Peter Thiel: The education of a libertarian (2009)

Alon Levy writes about public transit, rail projects, and why infrastructure construction costs differ so much between countries.

Top post: US Rail Construction Costs

Mencius Moldbug (Curtis Yarvin) wrote long essays on politics, economics, computer science research and user interfaces.

Top post: Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces

Tim Harford, an economist and journalist, writes on economics, innovation and decision-making, and hosts the Cautionary Tales podcast.

Top post: Why big companies squander brilliant ideas

Brian Potter writes on construction, manufacturing, housing costs, infrastructure and industrial history.

Top post: A Cycle of Misery: The business of building commercial aircraft

EconLog is a group economics blog, with contributors such as Scott Sumner, covering education, taxes, monetary policy, and libertarian-leaning economic thinking.

Top post: How Elite Firms Hire: The Inside Story

Asterisk is an online magazine with essays on science, economics, development, and effective altruism-adjacent topics.

Top post: The Making of Community Notes (2024)

Continuations is the blog of Albert Wenger, a venture capitalist who writes about crypto, technology, economics, and computer science basics.

Top post: Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?

Cory Doctorow writes essays on tech policy, monopoly power, copyright, right to repair, and what he calls enshittification of platforms.

Top post: A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled Copyleft Trolls (2022)

Ben Carlson writes about investing, market history, housing and personal finance, using historical data to argue for long-term, simple strategies.

Top post: What If You Only Invested at Market Peaks?

Epoch AI is a research group that publishes data and analysis on AI trends, including compute, costs, energy use and benchmarks.

Top post: How much energy does ChatGPT use?

Evonomics publishes essays by economists and writers arguing for changes in mainstream economic thinking, such as on inequality and work.

Top post: Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs

AIER, the American Institute for Economic Research, publishes free-market economics articles on topics like lockdowns, Bitcoin, and pandemic policy.

Top post: The true cost of a hamburger

Valve's company blog hosted posts by staff such as Michael Abrash and economist Yanis Varoufakis on AR/VR, game economies, and company culture.

Top post: We Won’t See Hard AR Anytime Soon (2012)

Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU, writes about company valuation, markets, and topics like Tesla, Uber, WeWork, and crypto.

Top post: The Crypto Currency Debate: Future of Money or Speculative Hype?

Matt Stoller's newsletter covers monopoly power, antitrust law and history, and the effects of private equity and concentrated industries.

Top post: Did a Private Equity Fire Truck Roll-Up Worsen the L.A. Fires?

The Correspondent was a member-funded online news platform with long-form articles on economics, technology, advertising, and society.

Top post: What do we really know about the effectiveness of digital advertising?

The World Bank's official blogs, covering development economics, poverty, education, health, and open data with analysis and data tools.

Top post: From chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria

Nick Szabo, a computer scientist and legal scholar, writes about digital money, smart contracts, and the history of institutions.

Top post: Money, blockchains, and social scalability

Archive of cypherpunk and digital-money writing, including Nick Szabo's essays, the Bitcoin whitepaper, and the Cyphernomicon.

Top post: Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (2002)

John Cochrane, an economist at the Hoover Institution, writes on monetary policy, banking, inflation, and finance.

Top post: Bitcoin and Bubbles

The New York Fed's research blog covers economics topics such as tariffs, inflation, labor share, credit cards and college returns.

Top post: Who Is Paying for the 2025 U.S. Tariffs?

Economists at the St. Louis Fed write about economic data from FRED, covering money supply, wages, productivity, jobs and markets.

Top post: What’s behind the recent surge in the M1 money supply?

Nate Silver, the statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight, writes about polls, politics, elections, social media and forecasting on his Substack.

Top post: Trump approval ratings nate silver bulletin

David Friedman, an economist and legal scholar, publishes books and papers on anarchism, price theory, and legal systems of other societies.

Top post: The Machinery of Freedom (1989) [pdf]

Financial Samurai is a personal finance blog by a former finance worker covering income, real estate, car buying, and early retirement.

Top post: Scraping by on $500k a Year: Why It’s So Hard to Escape the Rat Race

BloombergNEF's blog shares analyses of battery prices, electric vehicles, energy transition, and data center power demand.

Top post: Behind scenes take lithium ion battery prices

Urban K. Choze writes about urban planning and housing, especially how Japan's national zoning system compares with American zoning.

Top post: Japanese zoning

Paul Kedrosky, an investor and analyst, writes about technology, markets, economics, and startups, including Google's business and search quality.

Top post: Google has become a snake that too readily consumes its own keyword tail

Noah Smith writes about economics, housing policy, technology, and academic careers, with book reviews and commentary on macro debates.

Top post: What we didn't get

Bill McBride writes about the US economy, covering housing, employment, auto sales, GDP and Covid-era data.

Top post: House prices and mortgage rates

Brad DeLong, an economist, writes about economic history, macroeconomics, and critiques of other economists and authors.

Top post: The very last david graeber post

Jason Crawford writes about the history and causes of technological and industrial progress, covering topics like nuclear power, bicycles, and factory safety.

Top post: Technological stagnation: Why I came around

Collaborative Fund's blog, mainly by Morgan Housel, covers money, investing behavior, luck, and long-term thinking.

Top post: Lucky vs. Repeatable

Steve Randy Waldman writes essays on economics, finance, and economic philosophy at Interfluidity.

Top post: Why is finance so complex? (2011)

Get Rich Slowly is a personal finance blog about saving, investing, debt, and money habits, started by J.D. Roth.

Top post: I Quit My Passion And Took A Boring Job

Tomas Pueyo writes Uncharted Territories, long essays on geopolitics, economics, technology, climate, and pandemics.

Top post: Seaflooding