Thoughts On Economics

I have made a working paper with the above title available on SSRN. Abstract: This article illustrates the application of pattern analy...

I have made available a working paper with the post title. Abstract: This article presents an example in which perturbations in relati...

Mariana Mazzucato's The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy is a popular book. She argues that we should chan...

Figure 1: A Two-Dimensional Pattern Diagram 1.0 Introduction This post continues this example of the application of pattern analys...

Figure 1: A Pattern Diagram 1.0 Introduction In this example, I perturb parameters in an example of Bertram Schefold's. I was d...

Figure 1: A Partition of Price-Wage Space for a Two-Commodity Reswitching Example 1.0 Introduction This post generalizes my approac...

Figure 1: A Two-Dimensional Pattern Diagram The example in this working paper is of an economy in which two commodities are produce...

I have uploaded another working paper : This article presents an example in which technical progress results in variations in the l...

Figure 1: Regions for Basis Variables 1.0 Introduction I introduced a new way of visualizing the choice of technique for two-com...

Suppose one wants to quantitatively measure the growth in productivity over centuries. And one wants to look at specific commodities that c...

Despite his ignorance of the Cambridge Capital Controversy, Paul Romer's recent criticisms of mainstream macroeconomics have some go...

I have been looking at the effects of perturbing parameters in models of the choice of technique. Now that I have one paper out of this r...

For a number of decades, Arrigo Opocher and Ian Steedman have been developing arguments that apply the CCC to industries and even individua...

Or, rather, I classify economists into two kinds on each of three dimensions (Table 1). Table 1: Classifications For Economists Emphasis ...

My article with the post title is now available at the Review of Behavioral Economics . The abstract follows: Abstract: The choic...

Maeve Cohen, the director of Rethinking Economics, notes the absurdism of undergraduate economics teaching, even after the Global Financia...

I present four claims about Marx's Capital . I strive for topics more general than, for example, squabbles about the transformation pro...

1.0 Introduction This post presents a model of a steady state with a constant rate of growth in which: Total wages and total profits gro...

Despite the label at the bottom of this post, this is not really a profile of Amin. I happen to have started reading Modern Imperialism, Mo...

Apparently, a character in a current movie, Crazy Rich Asians is an economist. Dan Kopf considers whether she is a good economist. In a ...