Dear reader,
don't you worry ... the author here hasn't joined Business Insider and will try to avoid hefty headlines in future ;-)
But since the initial Bruegel blog statement 'Europeans can't blog' stirred up some discussion about the quality of blogging among European economists they (Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Éric Monnet) now contradict their own initial statement by publishing this excellent piece: Blogs review: The Gold Standard and the Euro
By including 21 (twenty-one) links to other fine pieces published earlier by esteemed economists from both sides of the Atlantic (and adding some insight from leading politicians as well) they set a shining example of what they really had in mind by issuing their first statement. Not to insult hobby bloggers using their mother tongue to express perhaps share their amateurs views with their fellow blogging enthusiasts, but to inspire professional economists and policy makers to not just use their blogs to trumped their perspective to economy in general or to comment on events/needs of the eurozone. A call to insert more references to the work of others in order to have more context and not to spend hours to search for other pieces on the same or similar subjects . Not only to empower their readership to verify their comments on the findings of others but also to interact with those they refer to. Of course this is only the first step in order to open a real debate.
To be even more efficient it could be recommended that everyone, commenting on pieces issued before by others, inform those authors by sending them just the title and a link to their latest piece by Twitter. In order to follow a new debate upon a specific topic a unique hashtag would also be helpful. But that 'creative discipline' wasn't observed even by this author here who knew perfectly well how beneficial that would have been but creativity often goes along with laziness ;-)
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