Thoughts On Economics

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1.0 Introduction Brian Arthur and Paul David, two teachers at Stanford about a decade ago, have attracted a certain amount of popular attent...

Suppose an orthodox economist hands you a map and says, "This is a map of New York City." You look at it and say, "It is not....

This post points out some recent interventions by two leading economists in schools of thought in which I am interested. Paul Davidson is ...

The above is from my 2005 Manchester School article . H/T to Crooked Timber .

Russell Jacoby asks , in the 25 July 2008 issues of The Chronicle of Higher Education , "How is it that Freud is not taught in psycholo...

Greg Mankiw presents a non-argument from authority to the readers of The New York Times . Is what a majority of members of the American Ass...

1.0 Introduction The interpretation of classical economists by historians of economic thought is an area of intense debate that Sraffians ha...

Suppose that all equipment used in production were privately owned by individuals. Being fairly well-off, I might have a house with some sor...

Stiglitz has an editorial in "Egypt's only independent newspaper in English: "Neo-liberal market fundamentalism was always a p...

I suppose if I want to note the origin of the term "neoclassical" in relation to economics, I should quote Aspromourgos. But I hap...

Marx may or may not be correct in these passages. But these, and expansions of these passages, certainly contain claims worth thinking about...

Anybody interested in institutional economics should be interested in evolutionary theory, a theory that I can stand to learn more about. Th...

Over at the Austrian Economists' blog, the comments on one post are mostly about Sraffa versus Hayek. The defenders of Hayek want to re...

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

I haven't begun to explore this "Real Utopias" project . It seems to me to have a flavor of Analytical Marxism. Hat tip to ta...

...and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it...

As far as I can see, Varian implies in the following combination of quotations that the student need not care about vast chunks of his textb...