Thoughts On Economics

Table 1: Selected Events 1853 - 1856 Crimean war. 1861 Emanicpation of the serfs under Alexander II. 1877 - 1878 Russo-Turkisk war. 1881...

Engels had a lot to do with formulating orthodox interpretations of Marx in the period after Marx's death. So it is interesting to see ...

This is C27 in Sraffas archives. 97 Fortis Green London N2 Tudor 0214 6th August 1966 Dear Piero, I do not know whether you know...

Fact: If you use the word "carceral" instead of "prison" your argument immediately becomes more persuasive. Good pra...

This is current events, but this post is about current events in Britain in 1920. Lenin comments on reports of a dispute between Lloyd Geo...

I try here to outline certain postmodern 1 doctrines that, in a full development, might result in one using obscure terminology. None of t...

I am of the opinion that talk of more or less government intervention in markets is incoherent in, for example, the United States today. It...

" Civil Society - an association of members as self-subsistent individuals in a universality which, because of their self-subsistence,...

In keeping with my amateur status, I like the support of references. Other bloggers have different styles. I think I'll even provide ref...

And not for the first time. Apparently Sraffa, an Italian living in England, probably only wrote the first sentence of the following letter....

I know, from reading Geoff Harcourt, that at least some of this was quoted at Sraffa's funeral: "It would be worth compiling a ...

Piero Sraffa is one of my favorite economists. I have been listening to a couple of mp3 files . Piero Sraffa appears in the stories these le...