The Wall Street Journal rates WAGE affliliate and La Follette School Professor Menzie Chinn'’s Econbrowser blog among the top 25 economics blogs. Chinn and his co-blogger, James D. Hamilton, a professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego, have been analyzing current economic conditions and policy since June 2005.

On a scale of one to five, Chinn and Hamilton earned five light bulbs for originality, five calculators for geekiness and three reading glasses for readability. Per the Journal’s judging criteria, that means Chinn “consistently includes original insights” and the judges assume he knows “what the Phillips curve is.” The three reading glasses rating suggests that he “should keep [his] day job,” which is good news for his students enrolled in the fall 2009 section of PA 974 Policy Responses to the Great Recession.

The Palgrave Econolog ranks Econbrowser fifth, based on the number of links to it from other blogs recently.