Thoughts On Economics

I have occasionally written about vote-counting protocols . Onondaga County is to the west of me. Syracuse, NY, is their major city. Me...

This post gestures to a worrisome argument that could be constructed by combining arguments from certain references. It is also more about ...

1.0 Introduction This post deals with a set of ideas that I find appealing, but contradictory. I know I do not fully understand many of th...

Table 1: Distribution of Votes Among Parties and Districts District Tories Whigs Total I 51 49 100 II 51 49 100 III 33 67 100 Total 135...

1.0 Introduction In 1865, John Stuart Mill , when he was almost 60, was elected to Parliament. He represented the radical wing of the Li...

1.0 Introduction Some have argued that the Republican Party, in the United States of American, has been acting, since Newt Gringrich's...

1.0 Introduction This post presents a perhaps surprising example of results from measuring political power in a system with weighted voti...

1.0 Introduction A common type of post in this blog is the presentation of concrete numerical examples in economics. Sometimes I present e...

I have been re-reading Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind . According to this book, defending arbitrary hierarchies is the first prior...

I have been trying to reread Donald Saari on election paradoxes . I have previously considered a few parallels between the Condorcet parado...

Table 3: The Perceived Importance of Problems Facing U.S.A. Problem % Wealthy Saying "Very Important" Budget deficits 87 Unempl...

Table 1: Politicians in State Legislatures Ignorant of Strength of Constituent Support for Universal Health Care Table 2: Politicians...

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

Figure 1: Bottom Decile Irrelevant To Policy Figure 2: Top Decile Much More Influential on Policy Than Median These striking figures are...

Scientists aspire to develop theories that observations can potentially demonstrate to be wrong. Here I examine whether this aspiration can ...

1.0 Introduction I think of this post as posing a research question. S. Abu Turab Rizvi re-interprets the primitives of social choice theory...