The Top 10 Economists on Twitter
Twitter’s top 10 economists (11 November 2010)
@CMEGroup Chicago Mercantile Exchange 764,000 followers
@NYTimesKrugman Paul Krugman, Nobel Laureate & columnist 466,000 followers
@andrewrsorkin Andrew Ross Sorkin, NYT Dealbook 317,000 followers
@freakonomics The Freakonomics blog 184,000 followers
@planetmoney NPR’s Planet Money 113,000 followers
@PKedrosky Paul Kedrosky, Financial commentator 70,500 followers
@Richard_Florida Richard Florida, Urbanist 69,800
@nouriel Nouriel Roubini, Economic forecaster 28,700 followers
@dambisamoyo Dambisa Moyo, Aid Sceptic 26,800 followers
@evanHD Evan Davis, formerly BBC economics editor 20,000 followers
Or you can follow them all in one go at this handy list.
Update: The definition of “economist” is clearly subjective but otherwise this list is simply the 10 most popular econ-related twitter accounts that I could find. More suggestions welcome!
Honourable mentions – a subjective combination of econ tweeters who are popular, interesting or under-appreciated:
@DavidMcW David McWilliams, Irish popular economist 12,900 followers
@FelixSalmon Felix Salmon Finance blogger, Reuters 11,500 followers
@jeffdsachs Jeffrey Sachs, Columbia University 9100 followers
@TimHarford Tim Harford, Undercover Economist at the Financial Times, 8500 followers (that’s me)
@Bill_Easterly Bill Easterly, New York University 8480 followers
@danariely Dan Ariely, Behavioural psychologist 6400 followers
@tylercowen Tyler Cowen, curator of Marginal Revolution 6350 followers
@DavidMWessel David Wessel Wall Street Journal’s Economics Editor 4800 followers
@crampell Catherine Rampell, Economix Blog editor 2800 followers
@cblatts Chris Blattman, Political scientist 2000 followers
@diane1859 Diane Coyle, The Enlightened Economist 970 followers
@tutor2u_econ Resources for economics teachers 470 followers
The idea for composing this list came from a post on the Oxford Economics blog.
Feel free to email [undercovereconomist AT gmail] or tweet [ @timharford ] with further suggestions. I’ll update this post from time to time. Comments are open.
7 Comments
Jeffrey Peel says:
Tim, thanks for creating the list and I’m delighted my own post inspired you. I only included individuals – not organisations or brands. That explains why I ignored Freakonomics etc. However, you’ve uncovered some Twitter accounts I missed – so perhaps I’ll work on a Top 20 amalgam list.
Hope the new book is coming on well.
Kind regards.
Jeff Peel
11th of November, 2010david vyorst says:
Sorkin hardly tweets!
11th of November, 2010hire me because i'm smart says:
Now they’re going to get even more popular! You’ve just magnified the network effect.
11th of November, 2010solomon says:
What about Amartya Sen, the Nobel Laureate ”Development as freedom”
12th of November, 2010@pmmulei says:
Awesome stuff…couldnt help but notice that the ‘Dead Aid’ Author Dambisa Moyo (@dambisamoyo) didnt make it to the list. Yet she is now a force to reckon in contemporary economics, she is a regular tweeter, and has over 26945 followers. Thank you
12th of November, 2010Mats Elfström says:
Dambisa is on the list. After having read Dead Aid, I read The white man’s burden by William Easterly who is on the hon. mentions list. But I have also read Agenda for a new economy by David Korten which made a profound impact on me. He should be on the list too I think.
12th of November, 2010bill_westerly says:
Effery one uf dese girlyman egonomists, I could slay wid my muscular critique.
Except der Sachs. Always der archemeny, Sachs.
16th of November, 2010