Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary (with Vitalik)

Marginal Revolution, the economics blog started by Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen in August 2003, marked its 20th anniversary with a podcast conversation featuring co-founders Tabarrok and Cowen alongside Ben Casnocha and Vitalik Buterin. Cowen said his original goal was 5,000 readers, mostly academics, and that the blog has since gone far past what he expected. Tabarrok said the blog's standing shifted once academics who had once looked down on blogging began sending their papers for posting. Both co-founders said the blog remains free, without ads, and has no plans to change its format.