I keep my ranking of top columns updated along the way, but it is time to update the ranking of my top blog posts. You can see my explanation of the rankings and other musings after the lists. 

All Quartz Columns So Far, in Order of Popularity:

1. There’s One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don’t
2. The Coming Transformation of Education: Degrees Won’t Matter Anymore, Skills Will
3. The Hunger Games is Hardly Our Future: It’s Already Here
4. The Complete Guide to Getting into an Economics PhD Program
5. Why Thinking about China is the Key to a Free World
6. The Case for Gay Marriage is Made in the Freedom of Religion
7. How to Turn Every Child into a “Math Person”
8. How Big is the Sexism Problem in Economics?
9. After Crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s Data, We Find No Evidence That High Debt Slows Growth
10. The Swiss National Bank Means Business with Its Negative Rates
11. The National Security Case for Raising the Gasoline Tax Right Now
12. Will Narendra Modi’s Economic Reforms Put India on the Road to Being a Superpower?
13. The Shakeup at the Minneapolis Fed and the Battle for the Soul of Macroeconomics
14. How Increasing Retirement Saving Could Give America More Balanced Trade
15. Human Grace: Gratitude is Not Simple Sentiment; It is the Motivation that Can Save the World
16. Larry Summers Just Confirmed That He is Still a Heavyweight on Economic Policy
17. An Economist’s Mea Culpa: I Relied on Reinhart and Rogoff
18. Examining the Entrails: Is There Any Evidence for an Effect of Debt on Growth in the Reinhart and Rogoff Data?
19. How to Avoid Another NASDAQ Meltdown: Slow Down Trading (to Only 20 Times Per Second)
20. Odious Wealth: The Outrage is Not So Much Over Inequality but All the Dubious Ways the Rich Got Richer
21. Benjamin Franklin’s Strategy to Make the US a Superpower Worked Once, Why Not Try It Again?
22. America’s Big Monetary Policy Mistake: How Negative Interest Rates Could Have Stopped the Great Recession in Its Tracks
23. Gather ‘round, Children, and Hear How to Heal a Wounded Economy
24. Show Me the Money!
25. QE or Not QE: Even Economists Needs Lessons In Quantitative Easing, Bernanke Style
26. Don’t Believe Anyone Who Claims to Understand the Economics of Obamacare
27. Swiss Pioneers! The Swiss as the Vanguard for Negative Interest Rates
28. Radical Banking: The World Needs New Tools to Fight the Next Recession
29. The Government and the Mob
30. How Italy and the UK Can Stimulate Their Economies Without Further Damaging Their Credit Ratings
31. Janet Yellen is Hardly a Dove: She Knows the US Economy Needs Some Unemployment
32. Four More Years! The US Economy Needs a Third Term of Ben Bernanke
33. Japan Should Be Trying Out a Next Generation Monetary Policy
34. Why the US Needs Its Own Sovereign Wealth Fund
35. One of the Biggest Threats to America’s Future Has the Easiest Fix
36. Could the UK be the First Country to Adopt Electronic Money?
37. Righting Rogoff on Japan’s Monetary Policy
38. Optimal Monetary Policy: Could the Next Big Idea Come from the Blogosphere?
39. Why You Should Care about Other People’s Children as Much as Your Own
40. Get Real: Bob Shiller’s Nobel Should Help the World Improve Imperfect Financial Markets
41. In Defense of Clay Christensen: Even the ‘Nicest Man Ever to Lecture’ at Harvard Can’t Innovate without Upsetting a Few People
42. Actually, There Was Some Real Policy in Obama’s Speech
43. Meet the Fed’s New Intellectual Powerhouse
44. Read His Lips: Why Ben Bernanke Had to Set Firm Targets for the Economy
45. More Muscle than QE3: With an Extra $2000 in their Pockets, Could Americans Restart the U.S. Economy?
46. How Subordinating Paper Money to Electronic Money Can End Recessions and End Inflation
47. That Baby Born in Bethlehem Should Inspire Society to Keep Redeeming Itself
48. Three Big Questions for Larry Summers, Janet Yellen, and Anyone Else Who Wants to Head the Fed
49. Judging the Nations: Wealth and Happiness Are Not Enough
50. The Man in the Tank: It’s Time to Honor the Unsung Hero of Tiananmen Square
51. Yes, There is an Alternative to Austerity Versus Spending: Reinvigorate America’s Nonprofits
52. John Taylor is Wrong: The Fed is Not Causing Another Recession
53. However Low Interest Rates Might Go, the IRS Will Never Act Like a Bank
54. Why Austerity Budgets Won’t Save Your Economy
55. Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
56. Make No Mistake about the Taper—the Fed Wishes It Could Stimulate the Economy More
57. Nationalists vs. Cosmopolitans: Social Scientists Need to Learn from Their Brexit Blunder
58. Off the Rails: What the Heck is Happening to the US Economy? How to Get the Recovery Back on Track
59. VAT: Help the Poor and Strengthen the Economy by Changing the Way the US Collects Tax
60. Talk Ain’t Cheap: You Should Expect Overreaction When the Fed Makes a Mess of Explaining Its Plans
61. Obama Could Really Help the US Economy by Pushing for More Legal Immigration
62. Does Ben Bernanke Want to Replace GDP with a Happiness Index?
63. How to Stabilize the Financial System and Make Money for US Taxpayers
64. How the Electronic Deutsche Mark Can Save Europe
65. Al Roth’s Nobel Prize is in Economics, but Doctors Can Thank Him, Too
66. Italy Should Look to Ancient Rome to Reform Its Ineffective Senate
67. Symbol Wanted: Maybe Europe’s Unity Doesn’t Rest on Its Currency. Joint Mission to Mars, Anyone?

Major Pieces First Appearing in Other Outlets (in Arbitrary Order)

• Slate: Governments Can and Should Beat Bitcoin at Its Own Game
• VoxEU: Happiness and Satisfaction Are Not Everything: Toward Well Being Indices Based on Stated Preferences
• Pieria: Going Off the Paper Standard
• The Costs and Benefits of Repealing the Zero Lower Bound … and Then Lowering the Long-Run Inflation Target
• The Independent: Why George Osborne Should Give Everyone in Britain a New Credit Card

Columns Rejected by Quartz Because of Their Topics

• Safe, Legal, Rare and Early (on abortion)
• The Pope and the Prophet: Letting Go (on facing old age)

Top 52 Posts on supplysideliberal.com:

1. The Wall Street Journal’s Quality-Control Failure: Bret Stephens’s Misleading Use of Nominal Income in His Editorial 'Obama’s Envy Problem’ 7508 
2. Contra John Taylor 7390
3. The True Size of Africa, Revisited 7317
4. Joshua Foer on Deliberate Practice 7110 
5. Dr. Smith and the Asset Bubble 6735
6. Daniel Coyle on Deliberate Practice 6425
7. Shane Parrish on Deliberate Practice 6413
8. The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Long-Run Natural Interest Rate 5961
9. Scott Adams’s Finest Hour: How to Tax the Rich 4866
10. Balance Sheet Monetary Policy: A Primer 4761
11. Sticky Prices vs. Sticky Wages: A Debate Between Miles Kimball and Matthew Rognlie 4744
12. The Logarithmic Harmony of Percent Changes and Growth Rates 4724
13. What is a Supply-Side Liberal? 4684
14. The Message of Mormonism for Atheists Who Want to Stay Atheists 4108
15. Isaac Sorkin: Don’t Be Too Reassured by Small Short-Run Effects    of the Minimum Wage  3977
16. Noah Smith Joins My Debate with Paul Krugman: Debt, National Lines of Credit, and Politics 3848
17. On Master’s Programs in Economics 3711
18. Heroes of Science Action Figures 3013
19. The Deep Magic of Money and the Deeper Magic of the Supply Side 2860
20. Noah Smith: God and SuperGod 2853
21. Trillions and Trillions: Getting Used to Balance Sheet Monetary Policy 2624
22. You Didn’t Build That: America Edition 2583
23. The Egocentric Illusion 2522
24. Why I Write 2521
25. Two Types of Knowledge: Human Capital and Information 2499
26. Why Taxes are Bad 2471
27. Noah Smith: Mom in Hell 2414
28. How Conservative Mormon America Avoided the Fate of Conservative White America 2378
29. How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide 2271
30. No Tax Increase Without Recompense 2260
31. Monetary vs. Fiscal Policy: Expansionary Monetary Policy Does Not Raise the Budget Deficit 2137
32. Books on Economics 2108
33. Getting the Biggest Bang for the Buck in Fiscal Policy 2098
34. The Unavoidability of Faith 2060
35. Teleotheism and the Purpose of Life 2029
36. The Mormon View of Jesus 1951
37. Why I am a Macroeconomist: Increasing Returns and Unemployment 1921
38. Milton Friedman: Celebrating His 100th Birthday with Videos of Milton 1871
39. The Shape of Production: Charles Cobb’s and Paul Douglas’s Boon to Economics 1841
40. Electronic Money: The Powerpoint File 1831
41. Three Goals for Ph.D. Courses in Economics 1803
42. Let the Wrong Come to Me, For They Will Make Me More Right 1802
43. John Stuart Mill’s Brief for Freedom of Speech 1766
44. Inequality Aversion Utility Functions: Would $1000 Mean More to a Poorer Family than $4000 to One Twice as Rich? 1750
45. On the Great Recession 1745
46. Scrooge and the Ethical Case for Consumption Taxation 1723
47. Government Purchases vs. Government Spending 1721
48. Jobs 1695
49. Kevin Hassett, Glenn Hubbard, Greg Mankiw and John Taylor Need to Answer This Post of Brad DeLong’s Point by Point 1614
50. Top 10 Posts on supplysideliberal.com 1584
51. Is Taxing Capital OK? 1553
52. When the Government Says “You May Not Have a Job” 1529

Explanation of the rankings: 

The top 52 posts on supplysideliberal.com listed above are based on Google Analytics pageviews from June 3, 2012 through around 9 pm on May 22, 2014. The number of pageviews is shown by each post. Not counting Quartz pageviews and pageviews from some forms of subscription, Google Analytics counts 504,893 pageviews during this period but, for example, 135,805 homepage views could not be categorized by post.

I have to handle my Quartz columns separately because that pageview data is proprietary. My very most popular pieces have been Quartz columns, so I list them first. I have listed them all plus a few columns in other outlets, with the ones with no data (yet) listed at the bottom. (To avoid duplication, I have disqualified companion posts to Quartz columns from the top 40 blog post list, since they eventually get recombined with the Quartz columns when I repatriate the columns. For these columns, the ranking is by pageviews at a point where things have settled down. For later posts, that is standardized to pageviews during the first 30 days when Quartz has an exclusive.)

Going forward as in the past, I plan to update the list of columns as new columns appear, but the list of posts is locked in place until the next time I do a post like this.

You might also find other posts you like in this earlier list of top posts. If you want to compare all the shifts to the last time I did the list of top blog posts, here it is. Last time, October 14, 2013, I did the top 40. In just the top 40 above, there are 15 new entrants since that last time. Conversely, 6 out of last time’s top 40 didn’t even make it into the top 52 this time.   

Musings: 

• Five of the top ten–1, 2, 4, 7, 8–are about education. Somewhat to my surprise, this has emerged as an important theme on my blog, as Noah Smith identified when writing about this blog. 
• Four of the top ten columns are coauthored: 1 and 4 with Noah Smith, 8 with Anonymous and 9 with Yichuan Wang. It helps to have a top-notch coauthor. 
• Two of the top ten–3 and 6–are relatively recent columns with a strong religious or moral tone to them. I am glad to see that my efforts to articulate religious and moral themes find an audience as well as what I have to say about economics. I actually consider 5 to be in this category as well. 
• One of the top ten–9–is about Reinhart and Rogoff. Levels of interest for understanding Reinhart and Rogoff’s mistake was extraordinary. 
• One thing I pay attention to is how great a reach my most popular column on negative interest rates is. I am pleased to have one at 9.
• Two of the top ten–3 and 5–touch on national security.
• There is a clear time trend in the data. Later columns and posts have an advantage over earlier columns and posts of equal quality.
• Other than “Dr. Smith and the Asset Bubble,” which is very popular because of the love many justifiably have for Noah Smith as a blogger, the top 7 blog posts all had the advantage of being flagged in very high traffic columns. The Wall Street Journal’s Quality-Control Failure: Bret Stephens’s Misleading Use of Nominal Income in His Editorial 'Obama’s Envy Problem’ and "Contra John Taylor“ were flagged by Paul Krugman, The True Size of Africa, Revisited was flagged by Tyler Cowen, and Joshua Foer on Deliberate Practice, Daniel Coyle on Deliberate Practice, and Shane Parrish on Deliberate Practice were flagged by Noah’s and my viral column There’s One Key Difference Between Kids Who Excel at Math and Those Who Don’t. Given this competition, the ones just below the top 7 that do well without such an advantage are doing impressively well–in particular, ”The Medium-Run Natural Interest Rate and the Long-Run Natural Interest Rate.“ 
• I am pleased at how many posts that seem especially useful for teaching and understanding policy have crept ahead of posts they used to be behind. This is associated with the fact that when I look at traffic over narrow, recent periods of time, there is a long tail of older posts people find useful that is generating most of the traffic on a typical day or week.  
• The mini-bio for me on Quartz says I blog about "economics, politics and religion.” I am glad to see that my religion posts and Noah Smith’s guest religion posts (collected in my Religion Humanities and Science sub-blog) are getting some attention. Religion is represented by 8 posts in the top forty, in spots 14, 20, 23, 27, 28, 34, 35 and 36. Since the presidential election, I actually haven’t written that much about politics–other than in very close connection to policy, so I am not surprised that politics doesn’t make much of an appearance in either of the lists above. The major exception is “That Baby Born in Bethlehem Should Inspire Society to Keep Redeeming Itself.”
• I had planned to stop at the top 50 this time, I went to the top 52, because I feel number 52, When the Government Says “You May Not Have a Job”, is so important. I feel there is close enough to free disposal that I am not burdening readers too much by extending the list all the way from 40 to 52, and maybe benefitting some readers who will feel as positively as I do about these posts further down the list. And 52 is the number of weeks in a year. (Hint, hint.)
• Finally, let me say that one of the things I am most pleased by is how many people are checking out the details of my proposal to eliminate the zero lower bound in How and Why to Eliminate the Zero Lower Bound: A Reader’s Guide and Electronic Money: The Powerpoint File.