I was happy to find DoL listed (at 68) on this list of Top 100 Academic Blogs Every Professional Investor Should Read, but the description was puzzling:

68. Division of Labour: The Division of Labour features historical economic headlines, ads, and more.

"Historical economic headlines" no doubt refers to Craig's NYT series.

But ads?

Students Matt Ryan (West Virginia U.) and David Skarbek (San Jose St. U.) have started a blog, The Perfect Substitute. Check it out. I love the tag line:

The case where a consumer is willing to substitute one good for another at some constant rate and remain equally well off. This blog is that perfect substitute.

First and somewhat belatedly, I want to welcome Brad Smith to the DoL fold. Brad is my friend and colleague at Capital University (he's in the law school) and as regular readers know is John McCain's favorite former Federal Election Commissioner.

Re: Brad's questioning of the value of academic conferences. The only value of the conferences is in the networking. There never was much point to the paper sessions even less so in this internet age. But you still can't network effectively by the internet. I was drinking networking until the wee hours of the morning in fact.

Somewhat belatedly, I'd like to welcome Tim Shaughnessy to the DoL fold. Tim is an econ prof at LSU-Shreveport. He went to a great graduate school for his doctorate. Go 'Noles!

I imagine there will be light blogging from the DoL crew this weekend and early next week as several of us will be attending the Association of Private Enterprise Education meeting in Orlando from Sunday-Tuesday. This includes myself (I'm the APEE President this year), Frank, Josh and Larry. The hotel does have wi-fi so I may get out a post or two.

This begs the question: What the heck are Mike, Ralph and Craig doing not going to the APEE meeting? I say next year we ALL go. Mark your calendars: April 2-4, 2006 in Las Vegas.

Thanks to the pointer provided by Marginal Revolution, Division of Labour now has its very own favicon--a favicon is the little image that appears on your web address bar.

Mozilla Firefox should show it right away, but if you use IE you'll probably need to drag the old favicon (the standard IE image) a couple of times to make the new one show up.