Most Popular Posts of 2007
31 December 2007 at 1:50 pm Peter G. Klein 3 comments
| Peter Klein |
Our most popular posts of 2007:
- Physics Envy and All That
- Design Puzzles
- Contronymns
- Taxes al Carbon
- The University of Phoenix and the Economic Organization of Higher Education
- How Does Management Affect Capabilities?
- Market-Based Management
- Agency Theory in Management
- Has Corporate Corruption Increased?
- The SWOT Model May Be Wrong
- Management Journal Impact Factors 2005
- PhD Candidate Shortage in Accounting
- Things You Shouldn’t Say at Your Dissertation Defense
- Do We Need a Project Project?
- The Legacy of Max Weber
- The Language of Economists (and Sociologists)
- Accounting: A Brief History
- Is Entrepreneurship a Factor of Production?
- The Galileo Legend
- The New Bashing of Economics: The Case of Management Theory
What makes a popular post? The main determinant seems to be an incoming link from a high-traffic site; items 1-4, 6, and 13-15 above were all linked from sites like Instapundit, the Dynamist Blog, Greg Mankiw, and Marginal Revolution. Items 5, 9, 12, and 17 come up often in search -engine results. My guess that items 7, 8, 10, 16, 18, and 20 were the most popular among our regular readers.
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Warren Miller | 31 December 2007 at 3:13 pm
Peter, thank you for citing “The SWOT Model.” I went to it eagerly because I hadn’t seen it before and also because it’s a framework we use all the time in our professional work advising mid-sized firms.
FWIW, it appears to have been a 2006 post. That was before I knew you guys existed, so I hadn’t seen it. Was delighted to find the Makadok paper, which I also hadn’t seen; I admire Rich’s work a lot.
Since today is a lazy day of sorts around here, I clicked through all 20 of the “top posts.” Found out that five–#7, 9, 10, 18, 20–appear to have come from 2006. Hmmmm. And did you know that four of the top six came from guest blogger Postrel? How do we get him back?! :-)
Thanks for all the fine work this blog does, and Happy New Year to all. Let’s hope that 2008 is happy, healthful, and prosperous.
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Peter Klein | 31 December 2007 at 3:41 pm
Warren, thanks for the kind words. On the dates, I should have specified that these are the “posts that were the most popular in 2007,” not the “posts from 2007 that were the most popular.”
As for Postrel: Why do you think we got rid of him? :-)
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CoreEcon » Blog Archive » Top Posts of 2007 | 31 December 2007 at 5:57 pm
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