Stephen Williamson has started a blog, and has hit the ground running: I count 12 posts since his first post on April 2. Although his current position is at Washington University in St Louis MO, a quick glance at his bio page will explain why I have no compunction about claiming him as one of us.
So far, most of his posts are on US policy, but he had a very nice piece in which he ripped apart the otherwise inexplicable Boone-Johnson 'Canadian banking is not the answer' article.
Please adjust your feeds accordingly.
(Thanks to David Andolfatto for bringing this to my attention)
Maybe I'm just being blindly patriotic, but that Johnson piece was total rubbish.
I don't necessarily contest their assertion that a Canadian style system is not appropriate for the US, but they certainly didn't provide a good case.
Posted by: Patrick | April 17, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Welcome to the club, Prof. Williamson.
This leads to *another* blogger with UWO connections. Serious question: Why do so many Canadian econbloggers have UWO connections, but so few have U of T connections?
Other than Prof. Gordon, I can't think of another Canadian Econblogger with ties to U of T. But for UWO, there are the three of us at this blog, Williamson, Andolfatto, EclectEcon Palmer. I wouldn't be surprised if there's more.
Posted by: Mike Moffatt | April 18, 2010 at 09:35 AM
Obviously the opportunity cost of time is pretty low for those with UWO degrees.
Oh snap
also your football team stinks
double snap.
Posted by: Canuck | April 18, 2010 at 11:58 AM
"also your football team stinks"
But this is a UWO vs. U of T comparison, the latter of which lost 49 games in a row!
Posted by: Mike Moffatt | April 18, 2010 at 12:24 PM