EconReporter is an independent journalism project focusing on Economics and global economic news.
Started as a non-expert’s exploration guide of economics, we strive to share the trending and insightful economics and finance ideas with readers— among them, economics students, journalists, investors and economists.
EconReporter accumulated over 15K followers across social media platforms through the years. Our works can be found on our Cantonese website as well as our English news outlet.
EconReporter’s works are cited here and there:
- Our interview with John Cochrane, on Fiscal Theory of Price Level (part 1 & part 2 was republished in the Hoover Digest, Winter 2017 issue
Our interview with Ricardo Reis, on macroeconomics’ post-2008 performance and how to use interest on reserve to target inflation, was listed on the “Recommendation for Further Reading” of the The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2017 issue
Our article, “Is tipflation even part of inflation“, was featured on FT Alphaville and Blockworks
Our 2019 analysis (hosted on Medium) on how young Hong Kongers’ dislike of Facebook changed their protest organization was cited by several research papers, including Protest, pandemic, & platformisation in Hong Kong: Towards cities of alternatives by Yung Au and RAND Corporation’s An Exploratory Examination of Agent-Based Modeling for the Study of Social Movements
Where is the General Theory of the 21st Century?
Where is the General Theory of the 21st Century? is an interview series we developed since 2016.
The mission of this interview series is to host conversation with top-notch economists about their views on the evolutions of macroeconomics since the Great Recession. We also introduced new macroeconomics ideas that are considered prominent by the economists.
Our aim is to give readers a good sense of how macroeconomics, as a social science and as a policy tools, has improved since 2008.