Thoughts On Economics

Warning: Lots of navel-gazing in this post. Example of Financial Analysis of Two Methods for Detecting Software Bugs (from Vienneau 1995)...

Figure 1: An Empirically-Constructed Bifurcation Diagram I thought I would try to summarize what I have learned about the qualitative beha...

1.0 Introduction In this post, I raise some questions about how short-period and long-period equilibrium relate. I consider this issue in ...

1.0 Introduction You may have noticed. I am not overly fond of neoclassical economics. But today I thought I would talk about criticisms y...

I suggest the following are distinctive features 1 of Keynes' General Theory : An investment function, independent of savings (as in...

Frank Hahn's 1982 article , "The Neo-Ricardians", in the Cambridge Journal of Economics is important in my understanding of ...

Judea Pearl (1988). Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference . Judea is the father of Danny Pearl, t...

This post presents a series of claims, without argument, references, or empirical evidence. Raw materials & agricultural products, com...

I’ve noticed some foolish things said about free trade in the news recently. Yes, Ricardo showed that trade in two goods generates surplus ...

Dean Baker notes problems created by the Cambridge Capital Controversy (CCC) for Krugman's position on capital-intensive technologica...

How might a concern with being up on current fashions in mainstream economics models help perpetuate the current sociology of economics? ...

A steady state is characterized by the economy having a constant rate of growth. I here select a number of expositions of analyses of stead...

Paul Krugman has explained on several occasions that he was inspired to become an economist by Isaac Asimov's Foundation triology...

"In practice, of course, the purists were unable to deliver, and the new tricks involve the 'modern macroeconomists' in ad hoc...

So much nonsense packed into so few words: "But the lefty Sraffian model has only labour and time as inputs." -- Nick Rowe I ...

Paul Krugman has been writing about robots lately. He explicitly cites J. R. Hicks' incoherent and mistaken 1932 book, The Theory of...

"There are three good reasons to think that reduction will fail on any likely development of social sciences: (1) multiple realization...

My major point in this post is to draw attention to the existence of Kapeller and Pühringer (2010). Steve Keen's book, Debunking Econ...

" Larry , the Barefoot Bum " has been refuting propertarianism 1 . Crudely stated, his thesis is that if you believe taxation...

Should one try to engage with those putting forth positions refuted decades ago? Maybe one's time would be better spent on looking at ar...