What WCI readers liked on Facebook in 2011 (number of likes in parentheses):
The mathematics generation gap (205)
This is what a balance-sheet recession looks like, and it's not pretty (89)
A cost effective crime fighting agenda (51)
Monetary policy as threat strategy. Chuck Norris and Central Banks. (46)
Are gifted education programs a waste of money? (40)
You can't escape demographics. Quit whining and deal with it. (39)
Why New Keynesian macroeconomists are against labour unions (37)
US Productivity Exceptionalism (35)
Surrogate motherhood: the case for commodification (24)
Real wages, the recession that was, and the recession that wasn't (22)
Reverse-engineering the MMT model (21)
The behavioural economist's dilemma: induction versus deduction (21)
Hysteresis in the teaching of econometrics (19)
A 90% Subsidy to Political Riding Associations? (19)
On trends in inequality in Canada, the United Kingdom and Sweden (18)
Corporate Tax Rates, the Conservatives and the Liberals (18)
Do Keynesians believe their own models? (17)
Recessions are always and everywhere a monetary phenomena (16)
The federal deficit and the GST (16)
Why is Canadian GDP Growth Higher Under Liberal Governments? (16)
The US GDP revisions aren't as bad as you think. They're much worse. (15 likes)
Don't eat the marshmallow (15)
How the federal government went from persistent surpluses to persistent deficits (15)
Statistics Canada under siege (15)
The macroeconomics of doing nothing (13)
LED holiday lights and the rebound effect (12)
Behavioural Economics and the Rationality Assumption in Economics (12)
A Marketing and Brand Management Guy Examines the Liberal Campaign (11)
"But where will the demand come from?" In praise of older Keynesians (11)
Are faith and health care substitutes? (11)
Robots, slaves, horses, and Malthus (11)
This is a list of all posts that I could find with 11 or more likes; let me know if I've missed any. The facebook 'like' icon was added to WCI in March, but a few posts from January and February still made it onto the list.
Thanks to everyone who liked us this past year; a significant portion of WCI traffic now comes to us via Facebook.
Frances is writing really popular posts.
Posted by: slantendicular | December 28, 2011 at 05:29 PM
Slantendicular - the "most commented on" list would be entirely different, and totally dominated by Nick. Stephen usually does a "most read" list, too, which will probably be dominated by Nick also.
So, yes, this is a vanity project!
Posted by: Frances Woolley | December 28, 2011 at 05:40 PM
Well, here you go. Frances, you have 2 of the top 3, and 3 of the top 5.
eta: And 4 of the top 6, come to that.
Posted by: Stephen Gordon | December 28, 2011 at 06:31 PM
Stephen: and still there are people who call WCI Nick's or Stephen's blog...
Anyway , if we had time to read ,like and comment everything we'd wish, there would be a lot of ties in first place.
Posted by: Jacques René Giguère | December 28, 2011 at 06:48 PM
The reason for doing these lists is so that people can go back and catch up on some interesting posts they might have missed, and so that people new to the blog can read the 'greatest hits' of the past.
Posted by: Frances Woolley | December 28, 2011 at 07:32 PM