Thoughts On Economics

I noticed some articles and posts on Keynes recently. The ones I noticed are somewhat different than those highlighted by the Sandwichman. ...

The BioBricks Foundation ( BBF ) has Request For Comments ( RFCs ), just like the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ). They have a BioB...

Brian Leiter reports Alexander Rosenberg's thoughts . I'll select one extract: "Add in [Chicago economists'] ideological at...

Joseph Stiglitz has been chairing commissions. The draft report of the Commission of Experts of the President of the UN General Assembly on ...

A fool writes: "Paul's Keynesian economics requires that people make logically inconsistent plans to consume more, invest more, and...

Some journals with articles on current problems: Cambridge Journal of Economics , V. 33, N. 2 (July 2009). Challenge , V. 52, N. 1 (January-...

The Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions ( AIRLEAP ) is "deeply concerned about...

I previously pointed out that the same math that can formalize classical economics is used by Google to find page ranks. Now Stefano Alles...

Many have already written about Paul Krugman's article, "How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?" in the September 6 issue of the...

Wong (1978, 2006) grew out of what may have been the last doctorate thesis Joan Robinson supervised. As it is, Wong did not complete his the...

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

1.0 Introduction Sraffa's work on single product systems is sufficient for demonstrating the incorrectness of neoclassical economics, at...

Apparently, that is me .

Compare and contrast this: "Some of us were skeptical. A couple of months after Mr. Obama gave that speech, I warned that his vision of...

All ten of the letters in the 8-14 August issue of The Economist are responses to the critique of academic economics in the 18-24 July iss...

Mark Blaug has another paper criticizing Sraffianism. Here's one quotation from it: "One of the striking features of the Sraffian s...

I think I downloaded Marc Lavoie's paper, "Neoclassical Empirical Evidence: On Employment and Production Laws as Artefact" fro...

Others have already commented on the three articles on the breakdown of macroeconomics and financial economics in the July 18-24 issue ...

They did not hold the 30th anniversary concert at Woodstock. They held it in my backyard. Crowd for Dave Matthews. Dave Did "Watchtower...

1.0 Introduction This example illustrates one aspect of how Sraffa analyzed natural resources. In this case, natural resources consist of la...