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Ryan Avent: Economics: The ivory fortress: ONE of the more interesting responses to this week's Reinhart-Rogoff debate was this, from the economics blog Cheap Talk. "I Move That The AEA Stop Publishing Papers and Proceedings", the post title reads. Then:  Non-peer reviewed, inaccessible data, and punditry that can’t tell the difference between P&P and a regular AER article can’t be good for the reputation of the journal, the AEA, or the profession.

Joshua Gans: Digitopoly | Future of Blogging: Last week I attended the annual Kauffman Foundation Economics and Financial Weblogging Forum in Kansas City. It was the first time I had met so many of those bloggers that I read daily. I learned that the non-academic bloggers are young, very young. One of them is just out of high school! They are also taller than I expected.

I'm in Kansas City attending the Third Annual Kauffman Foundation Economics Bloggers Forum, which will be available by webcast live tomorrow from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

DRAFT… DRAFT… DARFT… Fifth Annual Kauffman Foundation Economics Webloggers Forum 2013 Invitation only, alas: our budget and our space is limited… Is this conference about economic webloggers, about weblogging economists, or about the economics of weblogging? All three, I say… TIME LIMITS FOR SPEAKERS, DISCUSSANTS, AND PANELISTS WILL BE RUTHLESSLY ENFORCED!!

The upswing in Mexican manufacturing is building a strong case for either of Canada’s largest railways to consider purchasing Kansas City Southern in order to gain greater access to the emerging market, one analyst says. Kansas City Southern [KCS] has long been thought to be attractive to either Canadian National Railway or its smaller rival Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd., either as a potential acquisition or through deeper partnership.

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