Thoughts On Economics

"Curiously, though economists like to intimidate other social scientists with the mathematical rigor of their discipline, most econom...

Robert Solow quotes Greenspan's new book: "'In a free competitive market,' [Greenspan] writes, 'incomes earned ...

Figure 1: An Example of Temporal Dynamics for the Logistic Equation 1.0 Introduction This post illustrates some common properties of t...

I have noticed that the recent history of economics has been impacted by various purges in various prominent economics departments. I think...

I want to remind myself to try to download the following in a couple of weeks: Abstract: Causal interactions within complex systems can ...

1.0 Introduction Every teacher, I guess, of an introductory or intermediate course has a struggle with how to teach material that requires...

Some links: The Post-crash Economics Society Economics students aim to tear up free-market syllabus , by Phillip Inman, in the Guardian ...

Current Dollars For Millionaires Of Various Eras How much would you need to have today to live like a millionaire in 1920? Over 10 million...

I just want to document here some usages of the phrase, " Neoclassical economics ". I restrict myself to literature in which the ...

I have previously gone on about multiple selves , also known as Faustian agents . I had not considered how an individual manages these selv...

1.0 Introduction Mainstream and non-mainstream economics can be read as sociological categories, defined by what conferences economists at...

One intellectually bankrupt technique to rationalize non-engagement with an argument is to complain that the ones putting forth the argumen...

Who are the greatest economists of, say, the last fifty years? I suggest the shortlist for many academic economists would include Kenneth A...

I have argued before that whether or not economics is a science is an uninteresting question. Rather, one should be concerned with the qua...

I consider this post to be a complement to some recent comments by Lars Syll on this year's Nobel prize. I here outline an (unorigin...

Alex Tabarrok, as I understand it, is an economist in the economics department at George Mason University. Brad DeLong has been famously fe...

Figure 1: The Musa-Okumoto Model Fit To Failure Data 1.0 Introduction I was partly inspired for this post by a dispute between Matheus ...

Notice the point about the need in neoclassical theory to assume that preferences satisfy Gorman's assumptions of identical and homothe...

A Simple Keynes-Like Model 1.0 Introduction I want to comment on an ideology that would lead to an acceptance of: Milton Friedman...