Elsewhere

• Prof. Rowena Ball teaches a course on indigenous mathematics at Australian National University.
• Prof. Caroline Fohlin, an economics professor at Emory University, is arrested for being assaulted by rioting police.
• Prof. Tim Garrett questions the units of measurement in aggregate production functions. Aggregate production functions are not laws of nature, and those not in a broken discipline should not be thrown by questions about units of measurement. Maybe some production functions make sense as limit cases of linear combinations of Leontief production functions.
• Daniel Kahneman has died.
• Deirde McCloskey asserts, without cogent argument, that the labor theory of value is wrong. In what units do you imagine the marginal product of capital is measured?
• Andy Merrifield has an article, "Gramsci and his friend 'S'", in Monthly Review.
• Branko Milanović reminisce about a neo-Ricardian study group in communist Yugoslavia.

Update on 1 May: Added link to Andy Merrifield essay,