[Harvard economist—and blogger!—http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/18/business/18leonhardt.html?ei=5090&en=f8b7fd159e5e7985&ex=1342411200&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1184943669-rtbVy8AOhLjYOVrvT8xZGg Gregory Mankiw is becoming an occasional columnist] for the New York Times. But he's not sure he's happy about it—or at least about the ideological composition of the Times' new economics columnists. He writes on his blog:

Here is my proposed topic of discussion for the comments section: Is this a "fair and balanced" group? In particular, one might ask two more specific questions. First, if you count the number of these eight economists who lean left and the number who lean right, perhaps leaving out a few without any particular political viewpoint, what ratio do you get? Second, is this group representative of the range of views in the American Economic Association? Bonus question: What economist would you to have seen added to this list? I'm not saying this to be snarky—promise—but Mankiw gets a lot of suggestions about which economists should be added. And not one person suggested Larry Summers. Serious question: Why not?