Special welcome to the blogosphere to Dean Baker of DIA community member Center for Economic & Policy Research. After a decade persevering through the Job-like tribulations of correcting journalists' economic homework in the Economic Reporting Review mailing list (which has been one of my favorite Monday treats for years), Dean's rechristened it today as a blog:
Economics
is a field sorely in need of more contested terrain to challenge
neoliberal orthodoxy and its megaphone of lackadaisical journalistic rah-rah.
BeatThePress (optimistic title!) joins such luminaries as Max Sawicky (blog) and Left Business Observer's Doug Henwood (podcast) on that elite team operating deep in the wilds of the dismal science.