Blogging through the economics crisis

One economist is revising his academic practice by blogging about it.  Simon Johnson, who teaches at MIT’s Sloan School, explains that he uses his site (http://baselinescenario.com/) to ground his exploration of the crisis in economics.

I now try to run everything I do, from classroom materials to op eds to technical papers, through my website, Baseline Scenario. This serves partly as a way to make explicit links between these various activities, but it also opens up both the MIT classroom to anyone interested, anywhere in the world, at the same time as allowing outside voices — from the experienced and savvy community that regularly comments on the blog — into our MIT face-to-face discussions.