Thoughts On Economics

Arindrajit Dube writes an obituary for Alan Krueger, in Slate . Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, at INET, highlights Krishna Bharadwaj's con...

1.0 Introduction By " libertarianism ", I mean propertarianism, a right-wing doctrine. In this post, I want to outline some ways...

This is current events, but this post is about current events in Britain in 1920. Lenin comments on reports of a dispute between Lloyd Geo...

The literature on neoliberalism is large. Here are some scholarly books on this subject or on related matters: The power of market fundam...

Figure 1: A Production Network I here comment on Baqaee and Farhi (2018). I am still trying to absorb it. I suppose that it is nice ...

I tend to be doubtful, albeit sometimes amused, by comments drawing on Hegel. But I thought I would adopt some of that sort of language for...

This is merely a list and, as usual, off the top of my head. Paul A. Samuelson (1966). A summing up. Quarterly Journal of Economics 80: ...

Here is a list of female economists I have learned from or would like to know more about: Jane Marcet Harriet Martineau Charlotte Perki...

Don Harris is a Stanford economist. Apparently, this post is on current events. His daughter, Kamala Harris is the junior senator from Ca...

Some articles: Josh Barro , in New York Magazine . Noah Smith , in Bloomberg . Linette Lopez , in Business Insider . Michael Strain , ...

1.0 Introduction This post is fairly stream of consciousness. It is a bit more about how many find me odd. I have previously mentioned ,...

1.0 Introduction Consider typical Linear Programs (LPs) for formulating the theory of firm in classical and neoclassical economics. I clai...

This post raises a question. Supposedly, the classical concept of prices of production with non-uniform rates of profits can be recast as a...

Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave, a great abolitionist orator, and generally a great American. Not too long ago, I read one o...

Figure 1: Intercepts of Production Possibilities Frontiers for England 1.0 Introduction In this example, gains and losses from trad...

Figure 1: Production Possibility Frontiers 1.0 Introduction Suppose foreign trade is possible in consumption goods, but not in capi...

Matthew Klein writes , in Barron's , about "Tarrifs and the Minimum Wage Are More Alike Than You Think". I disagree with some...

Figure 1: Production Possibility Frontiers 1.0 Introduction This post presents a numeric example of foreign trade in a model of the...

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...