Thoughts On Economics

Anwar Shaikh has died. Those who knew him or are more familiar with his work will have more to say. I know a few elements of his work: ...

Overview Paul Davidson took Keynes' General Theory of Employment Interest and Money seriously. The interpretation in mainstream textb...

No book-length biography of D. G. Champernowne exists, as far as I can see. Even his Wikipedia page is quite terse. Yet he advised and pa...

I feel each of these three needs more than I am able to say. I find intriguing radicals attacking communist parties from the left, as Negri...

I cannot write as much about these economists as they deserve. INET obituary for Victoria Chick. Her book, Macroeconomics after Keynes...

I have been inspired by Pasinetti's clear expositions. A lot of my work is an attempt to build on his theory of structural economic dyn...

Barkley Rosser's professional contributions include the study of complex dynamics in economic models, development and transition econom...

An Academic Lecture from Gintis I know of Herb Gintis more of as an Internet personality than through his work , mostly with Samuel Bowle...

I think it should be well-known that the Keynesian economics in Paul Samuelson's textbook, for example, does not capture a lot of the...

This overview of Geoff Harcourt's work is insufficient. He was interested in economics as a means to a better world. Consequently, he o...

I happen to have one book by Marty Weitzman (1942 - 2019) on my bookshelf. So I thought I would write a bit about The Share Economy: Conque...

The Growing Importance of Finance in the Post-War U.S. Economy As I understand it, Marco Rubio takes from Post Keynesians the idea t...

Don Harris is a Stanford economist. Apparently, this post is on current events. His daughter, Kamala Harris is the junior senator from Ca...

Despite the label at the bottom of this post, this is not really a profile of Amin. I happen to have started reading Modern Imperialism, Mo...

Bill Black has one here , emphasizing Arrow's impossibility theorem. The blog, A Fine Theorem, has two of a planned four-part series. Th...

Herbert Scarf died this 15th of November. I think of Scarf as the economist who first demonstrated that general equilibria need not be sta...

Barkley Rosser , David Ruccio , and Matias Vernengo have obituaries. I find I had not known much about Lee's life. I have been influ...

The New York Times , even outside of their editorial pages, seems to think their readership should know about the non-mainstream economists...

Elsewhere, on Ronald Coase: An obituary in the New York Times . John Cassidy offers an appreciation . Mike Konczal explains that Coas...

These have been written by authors who have not acknowledged their authorship. (I have written many of them myself.) John Maynard Keynes ...