Thoughts On Economics

I have just started David Schweickart's After Capitalism . I have yet to get to his exposition of how transition to economic democracy...

This post is mostly a bibliography. I know that Ludwig Von Mises' argument that socialist central planning will not work is invalid ....

The first is a distateful counting of the victims of capitalism in the twentieth century. The second concludes that no-longer-actually-exis...

Hakim on the Economic Calculation Problem Reactionaries often bring up the Economic Calculation Problem (ECP) as a fatal objection to so...

Socialist and coomunist parties have formed various internationals over the course of centuries. I consider a declaration of the Socialist ...

Girardi, Mamunuru, Halliday, and Bowles investigate , does studying economics make you selfish? In contrast to earlier research, they con...

The Start Of This Video Is An Anecdote About George Dantzig 1.0 Introduction Ludwig Von Mises popularized the Socialist Calculation Prob...

On Another Topic, with an Appearance by Rutger Bregman. This post does not answer the question, but merely provides a bibliography. I hav...

The strongest argument against socialism, understood as entailing central planning, comes from Enrico Barone . Von Mises popularized this a...

This post draws attention to the existence of a vast web of existing organizations that, perhaps, operate partly outside and partly inside ...

This is about Shove's review of The Socialist Tradition . Apparently Gray does not take those important in the development of economic ...

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 ...

A start (see links on the left) of advice to a student interested in how to introduce an evolutionary approach into economics. A podc...

Elements of a post capitalist society are and have been developing in actually existing capitalism. This post points out a couple of examp...

Here is a post from a blog devoted to cybercommunism. The blogger is glowing about Paul Cockshoot's work on refuting Hayek's suppo...

This list is mostly a matter of aspirational reading. Maybe I want to read Ted Burczak's Socialism after Hayek . (The Amazon page has...

Books on my pile include: Katherine Tait, My Father Bertrand Russell (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1975). Chris Mooney, The Republican Br...

I think many people, without too much thought, naturally intuit: The system under which they live works fairly well. Somehow, they are be...

Arjo Klamer has a blog , mainly in dutch. In one post in English, he argues that the award of the Nobel to Sargent and Sims symbolizes the...

1.0 Turgenev's Novel I recently stumbled across an English-language copy of the Turgenev novel where the title was translated as in th...