About a week after I started Hypothetical Bias, the cromulent economics blog, Tim emailed me with the idea for Environmental Economics (doh!). Loyal Environmental Economics readers* will notice that what started out as a strictly academic blog has become increasingly a cromulent environmental economics blog. There are two reasons for this:
- the demise of Hypothetical Bias:
a. more people read env-econ than hypo and its more fun to reveal your idiocy in front of lots and lots of people
b. only an idiot would try to maintain two blogs - Tim is as cromulent as I
I decided to finally post this thought when Footnoted posted on academic vs personal blogs: What is an academic blog anyway? I like this commenter's definition of an academic blog:
Academic blogs differ from other blogs in that they can be just as stupid, but they will have letters after the writers (or school affiliations) name that will mislead a tiny fraction of the real world into thinking they are worth reading as opposed to the Left-nut bag blogs, ... and the pseudo politico blogs, the gamer blogs …urp.
Complaints are welcome in the comments section!
*Get a life!
