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Most Popular Marginal Revolution Posts from 2010
Here are the most popular Marginal Revolution posts from 2010 as measured by landing pages and page views.
1. Book lists were very popular as a category. The highest ranked post in terms of page views was Tyler's Books which have influenced me the most which created a blogosphere avalanche. Links to other people's lists (of influential books) was also very popular. As was Books of the year, 2010 and peculiarly this post on The best-selling book of all time.
2. The number one linked post was What happened to M. Night Shyamalan? a one-liner and one-picturer. Also very popular in the category of "quickies" were Barbados v. Grenada, the demand for own-goals, Dead Birds, Freak-onomics, Nazi-Nudging, and Yuck_markets in Everything.
3. One Game Machine per Child on the failure of a computer voucher program to raise grades (but it did increase gaming).
5. The Dark Magic of Structured Finance.
7. Peter A. Diamond.
10. Why Did the Soviet Union Fall? (from 2007).
12. A Theory for Why Latvian Women are Beautiful.
Other substantive posts with high popularity (in the top-50) were my posts Insiders, Outsiders and Unemployment and The Philosophical Cow and Tyler's posts How many children should you have?, Is there a case for a vat?, Does the Law Professor have cause to complain? and Why is Haiti so Poor?
Two of my posts from previous years were also popular in 2010, from 2008 What is New Trade Theory? on Paul Krugman's Nobel and from 2005 Why Most Published Research Findings are False.
Hope you have enjoyed this years offerings. What have I missed?
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on December 31, 2010 at 07:20 AM in Economics, Weblogs | Permalink
Comments
#10 is linked to the same as #9.
Posted by: MichaelG at Dec 31, 2010 7:37:20 AM
Fixed, thx.
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Dec 31, 2010 7:56:36 AM
Congratulations to you both for a splendid year of blogging. HNY.
Posted by: dearieme at Dec 31, 2010 9:36:17 AM
Thank you both for another excellent year of blogging!
In addition to the list, I would like to add that I enjoy the food blogs quite a bit.
Posted by: Johan Eriksson at Dec 31, 2010 11:34:01 AM
I enjoy the answers/heories to the sometimes very random questions (A Theory for Why Latvian Women are Beautiful) that almost always come back to some sort of economic/incentives as a motivating theme to what was in question.
Posted by: The Unqualified Economist at Dec 31, 2010 12:45:31 PM
There is a post I've been looking for without success, and while I'm not sure it deserves a Best-Of nomination, I'd love it if someone could point me to the essay arguing for the role of the coffee house in the industrial revolution. Thanks and happy New Year!
Posted by: Andrew at Dec 31, 2010 6:08:18 PM
Try Gladwell's Java Man.
http://www.gladwell.com/pdf/javaman.pdf
Alex
Posted by: Alex Tabarrok at Dec 31, 2010 7:50:56 PM
Whenever I google Marginal Revolution, the M. Night Shyamalan post always appears first. That one was fun!
Best wishes for a prosperous new year.
BTW, everyone knows Lithuanian women are prettier than Latvian women.
Posted by: Six Ounces at Dec 31, 2010 10:35:59 PM
Why did Soviet Union fail? was from 2007: "Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 13, 2007"
Posted by: DK at Dec 31, 2010 10:37:17 PM
Most interesting comment? Most interesting commenter?
Posted by: Eapen Thampy at Dec 31, 2010 10:43:48 PM
Gaidar's article is fascinating. Required reading for anyone of a socialist inclination.
Posted by: Genghis Cunn at Jan 2, 2011 12:36:54 AM
