Thoughts On Economics

I read Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time years ago. I find its thesis on the f...

Bob Murphy On Infinity Branko Milanovic on The unexpected immortality of Karl Marx . Jesse Walker, in Reason , on It's the end o...

The Banach-Tarski Paradox The Hahn-Banach theorem is related to how mainstream economics model perfect competition. The video above i...

The 2020 "Nobel Prize" in economics goes to Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson. I suppose it is nice that economists acknowledge that...

A podcast interview with Philip Mirowski about how, roughly, neoliberals are exploiting the Corona Virus crisis in America. A book , Nine...

David Graeber's review of Robert Skidelsky's Money and Government: The past and Future of Government . A TED talk, by Nick Hanaue...

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

I guess this is a post on current events in the United States. Some articles I have recently found interesting are: Sean Wilentz defends...

A July 24 Jonathan Schlefer article , "Market Parables and the Economics of Populism: When Experts are Wrong, People Revolt", in ...

A Spell for Chameleon , the first book of the Xanth series, shows that Piers Anthony is a neoliberal 1 . Magicians are important character...

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

For me, this list is aspirational. I've read Mirowski and the Weintraub-edited book. I've just checked the Erickson book out of a l...

I have been reading Colin Crouch's The Strange Non-Death of Neoliberalism 1 . A major theme is that an ideological divide between more ...

Neoliberalism is a political project to remake the world into an unrealizable utopia. Neoclassical economics is a supposedly scientific ef...

Various nonacademic institutions have helped shaped the development of academic economics. Fred Lee, in his recent history, describes some a...

I have been reading The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective , a collection edited by Philip Mirowski and...

Some of these strike me as too absurd (e.g., 7, 9) to bother refuting: "...contrary to classical liberal doctrine, [the neoliberal] vis...