Thoughts On Economics

I finally finished Kartik Athreya's book, Big Ideas in Economics: A Nontechnical View . I have already offered two comments on it. I ...

I want to highlight the similarity in conclusions in Mirowski's recent book and Reed's controversial essay (see references below). ...

I continue to read Kartik Athreya's supposedly popular account of contemporary macroeconomics. Today I focus on the misleading present...

The following is reproduced from "An Essay on Post-Keynesian Theory: A New Paradigm in Economics", Al Eichner and Jan Kregel'...

In this passage, Roxana is preparing to move from Paris to Amsterdam. She liquidates her possessions, and uses jewelry and bills of exchang...

I am of the opinion that talk of more or less government intervention in markets is incoherent in, for example, the United States today. It...

Greg Hill describes issues in getting into (Arrow-Debreu) equilibrium. I want to remember to sometime read Wolfgang Eichert's article...

I have been trying to read Kartik Athreya's Big Ideas in Macroeconomics: A Nontechnical View . I find it quite dry. So far, it is all t...

1.0 Introduction Piero Sraffa, with his 1926 Economic Journal article on the laws of returns, had a great impact on the emerging field of...

To simplify, the factors of production are land, labor, and capital. The marginal productivity of labor is the extra output produced by an ...

John Scalzi 's Cat Looks At A Hugo Award Suppose you criticize current neoclassical teaching in introductory microeconomics. A def...

Noah Smith writes , "...An audience of academics wouldn't know an Austrian from a Post-Keynesian." So he creates a presentati...

I have updated my paper, On the Loss From Trade , available for download from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Changes include: ...

"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 ...