Thoughts On Economics

Brad DeLong and Noah Smith chat about the Cambridge Capital Controversy on their podcast , Hexapodia is the key insight . Noah says it was ...

In a blog associated with the Frankfurter Allegmeine, Gerald Braunberger criticizes the effects of Sraffian political economy on Italian p...

This post lists some views on Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: A Prelude to a Critique of Economic Theory . The quantit...

Carlo Milana has posted a paper on arXiv. I was prepared to accept this paper's claims. Economists have developed price theory. Referri...

Figure 1: APP Around Switch Points 1.0 Introduction I take it that the Austrian theory of the business cycle builds on Austrian cap...

Figure 1: A Production Network I here comment on Baqaee and Farhi (2018). I am still trying to absorb it. I suppose that it is nice ...

This is merely a list and, as usual, off the top of my head. Paul A. Samuelson (1966). A summing up. Quarterly Journal of Economics 80: ...

I consider the following views, if unqualified and without caveats, just silly: The Cambridge Capital Controversy (CCC) was only attackin...

A Reproduction Scheme (Based on Biddard 1990) 1.0 Introduction One way of reading the Cambridge Capital Controversy (CCC) is an inte...

Lars Syll has written a post , titled "Economics Textbooks - Decades of Scientific Fraud". If you had not already read it, could ...

Frank Hahn's 1982 article , "The Neo-Ricardians", in the Cambridge Journal of Economics is important in my understanding of ...

1.0 Introduction "Is Von Neumann Square?" is one of my favorite titles for an article in economics 1 . This post is about a case ...

Usually when Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori want to explain some economist is mistaken, they confine themselves to saying something along the...

Mark Blaug has another paper criticizing Sraffianism. Here's one quotation from it: "One of the striking features of the Sraffian s...

1.0 Introduction Around 1980, Edwin Burmeister could have justly thought that he was expressing the most prominent neoclassical response to ...

Apparently, Gavin Kennedy delivered a paper, "Adam Smith's Invisible Hand: From Metaphor to Myth", at the 40th Anniversary Con...