Thoughts On Economics

1.0 Introduction STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. This post describes a possible plan for a crowd...

1.0 Introduction A common type of post in this blog is the presentation of concrete numerical examples in economics. Sometimes I present e...

I consider the following views, if unqualified and without caveats, just silly: The Cambridge Capital Controversy (CCC) was only attackin...

Post Keynesian economics has been under development for about three quarters of a century now. Academics in countries around the world have...

A debate has recently arisen about Gerald Friedman's analysis of Bernie Sanders' proposed economic program. In a welcome turn...

I have been re-reading Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind . According to this book, defending arbitrary hierarchies is the first prior...

Figure 1: Lattice Diagram for Group of Symmetries of the Square "I shall now mention something I obviously do not understand....

I recently read Richard Davenport-Hines' Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes . One thing I learned was of the existence of ...

Recently, two bloggers have commented on what is taught in college classes for introduction to economics 1 . Noah Smith accepts simple par...

1.0 Introduction Robert B. Reich has a new book, Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few out last year. Paul Krugman reviewed it, o...

I have recently read Julie Nelson's 1995 essay in the Journal of Economic Perspectives . She thinks - and this is a well-established id...

Carolyn Kormann has an article, Through the Looking Glass , in this week's New Yorker . This article profiles Manu Prakash, a biophysic...

I try here to outline certain postmodern 1 doctrines that, in a full development, might result in one using obscure terminology. None of t...