Is blogging creaping into the maistream of economics?

The Growthology blog reports on Jan 3rd 2009:

AEA Econ Bloggers Lunch

I asked a few economics bloggers to join me for an informal roundtable at the annual AEA conference (ongoing this weekend in SF), and was delighted when today we met. I won't get into the details of the discussion in this post, but want to publicly thank them for making time to meet. My hope is that we can convene a larger group of economics bloggers in the future. It's a very interesting and unique group, and sometimes just getting great minds together and watching them interact creates a public good!

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