I'm concluding an essay right now that I would very much like to get feedback on from people who know more than I do. Such essays serve a dual function for myself, they serve the function of stimulating debate among non Austrians who read it (I post such essays on various forums) and occassionally persuading people. They also serve to help me articulate my own understanding, much as would a written assignment given in university.
However essays written in school have feedback from the professor, whereas mine rarely get feedback except from non-Austrians, and most of them don't even have any formal Keynesian background either. So I have been known to get a few things really wrong and have to backpedal. None of the non economists who have ever read any of my essays have ever caught any of these errors, but that doesn't make me feel any better about them.
In which sub-forum should I post such essays in order to get feedback I can trust? I have no problems having discussions with people whose sum total of Austrian education is having read Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson. (Any 'newbie' who has not read that book should stop whatever they are doing and read it, right now.) However for proof reading for accuracy, it would be better for me to not be confused as to who is giving me critique. I suppose I 'could' simply assume that those with a great many posts in these forums probably know what they are talking about, and post my work to the newbie forum, where they might serve to help educate.
Most of my essays are fairly introductory expository, persuasive essays, with followups delving into more detail like explaining supply and demand, the price system, the differences between economic schools of thought, etc..
You should post it on a blog.
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Thanks again Stranger.
Me posting in a blog won't seem like hubris? My true level of understanding is what one might expect of a second year university economics student, if they were studying Austrian economics. That is a lot more economics than most people know, but a lot 'less' than I would personally expect from a blogger. Perhaps I hold blogging in too high an esteem?
Peter Cohen:Perhaps I hold blogging in too high an esteem?
A blog is a good format because you control the presentation and still allow for feedback. Forum threads are a lot harder to keep on topic.
If you'd like a blog here on Mises.org, you can send a message to HeroicLife and request one. Tell him what you want it to be called, the shorter the name, the better.
liberty student:A blog is a good format because you control the presentation and still allow for feedback. Forum threads are a lot harder to keep on topic. If you'd like a blog here on Mises.org, you can send a message to HeroicLife and request one. Tell him what you want it to be called, the shorter the name, the better.
The hardest thing about starting a blog is choosing a name for it. I want to start a blog but I don't know what to call it.
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Daniel: liberty student:A blog is a good format because you control the presentation and still allow for feedback. Forum threads are a lot harder to keep on topic. If you'd like a blog here on Mises.org, you can send a message to HeroicLife and request one. Tell him what you want it to be called, the shorter the name, the better. The hardest thing about starting a blog is choosing a name for it. I want to start a blog but I don't know what to call it.
How about "Daniel's Blog?"