Thoughts On Economics

The literature on neoliberalism is large. Here are some scholarly books on this subject or on related matters: The power of market fundam...

Here are three: Anthony Giddens, in The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (1999), advocates a renewed social democracy. He contr...

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...

Figure 1: Paul Krugman And Bill O'Reilly Talk To Tim Russert "My problem was ... to pose the question, 'How is it that at ce...

I have been thinking about whether I want to read Stephen Marglin's new book, The Dismal Science: How Thinking Like an Economist Undermi...

Like D-Squared , I'm dubious about some responses to continential philosophy, cultural criticism as put forth by the Frankfort school, p...

"Would you agree with the following statement? '[Economists] should take credit for the deteriorating quality of existence. For it ...

Mainstream economists proceed by ignoring that much of what they say has long been shown to be false. A theme of this blog is to point out o...