Or at least they diagnose alike. From Brad DeLong, an announcement of a new electronic journal, The Economists' Voice. He's working with Joe Stiglitz and Aaron Edlin, and it's to be "published" by Berkeley Electronic Press. Their rationale behind the new venture, which is to be launched "later this year," resonates with some of the ideas mentioned at chez Nadezhda.

Too much of what we economists write meets the technical canons of modern economics, but reaches a very small audience (if it reaches any audience at all). Too much of the rest of what we write is murdered by being forced into the Procrustean bed of the 700-word op-ed: a space too small to make any but the most pathetic and oversimplified excuse for an argument. The result is that public understanding of the economy is abysmal, and the intellectual level of the public debate is far too low.

Their ambition is to become "the" place on the internet for fresh but credible economic writing for both professionals and serious amateurs. To get there, they aim to produce:

...pieces longer than an op-ed and shorter than (and much more readable than) a piece for a standard journal. We thus avoid the op-ed problem--the problem that op-ed space is too short for an argument, and only provides space to be shrill. But we also hope to stay short enough to be readable, and understandable. And we will aim for quick turnaround--days rather than the years of journals.

Via the comments to Brad's blog, they're already receiving a host of excellent (and incompatible) suggestions for things to make sure they do and for things to avoid at all costs. Hope this turns out to be an excellent adventure for both them and their readers.