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24Oct/09Off

Why not Eight?

As I was saying a while back, I stumbled upon Seven Scholar and I decided to 'review' it a bit. I must thank it for the links offered on the website because it unleashed a world of Economics blogs for me. I read through a couple of the recent entries to find out what exactly the site is seeking to achieve since it doesn't have an 'About' page.

The recent entries and probably all the other entries are basically summarized versions of news and analysis from various news publications. For the most recent posts, The Profile of a Bear is perhaps a summarized/paraphrased version of The Economist's Please do feed the Bears while the entry on Milton's String Theory is the gist of a small segment of The Economist article, The Long Climb.

The Seven Scholars don't link the entries to their respective article or news sources (or even bother to cite them), which means that if you're interested to read on about the topics or ideas, you'll have to search on your own. The only reason I could identify the news source of the two entries mentioned was because I happened to be reading that particular issue of The Economist after visiting the site. The academic authority links available on the site are under 'The Scholar's World' Section (don't click directly on it though, hover above the link on the menu bar and wait for the list of countries to appear). No doubt the author reads widely, getting news, analysis and infomation from a wide varity of sources but the lack of direct citations or links makes it difficult to know if the theories and current affairs mentioned is from the author or some news agency.

I have no idea what is the significance of the 'seven' in their name because as far as I can see, only an author named 'Jay' is posting. The site was really very active in July when it probably just started but activity kind of slowed down.

Posted by Kevin

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