Thoughts On Economics

I have uploaded a working paper with the post title. Abstract: This article demonstrates relationships that are transparent in Sraffa...

Elements of a post capitalist society are and have been developing in actually existing capitalism. This post points out a couple of examp...

Figure 1: A Pattern Diagram with Joint Production 1.0 Introduction This post completes an example. I analyzed bits of this example ...

Here is a post from a blog devoted to cybercommunism. The blogger is glowing about Paul Cockshoot's work on refuting Hayek's suppo...

I am not sure about the economic logic in this post. Maybe somebody like D'Agata or Zambelli could do something with this. These ideas ...

Figure 1: Wage Curves and The Price of Corn for the Fluke Case Introduction This post extends a previous post . I am basically intr...

Figure 1: Wage Curves with Corn as Numeraire 1.0 Introduction This post presents an example of a fluke switch point in which the ch...

I happen to have one book by Marty Weitzman (1942 - 2019) on my bookshelf. So I thought I would write a bit about The Share Economy: Conque...

This list is mostly a matter of aspirational reading. Maybe I want to read Ted Burczak's Socialism after Hayek . (The Amazon page has...

This post gestures to a worrisome argument that could be constructed by combining arguments from certain references. It is also more about ...

I happen to think the minimum wage in the United States should be raised. I'll go along with the consensus of $15 an hour. I also hap...

Blair Fix argues that economists argue in a circle in putting forth the marginal productivity theory of distribution. I know that there is...

This post, as suggested, extends this one-good example. I assume a constant returns-to-scale technology, as specified in Tables 1 an...

I am being published in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics . Currently, this link is without my corrections to proofs, I guess....

I know that the idea of a "natural rate" of unemployment or a non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) makes no se...

Figure 1: A Pattern Diagram I have put up a working paper with the post title. Abstract: This article considers Harrod-neutral t...

"One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline, the less us...

Carlo Milana has posted a paper on arXiv. I was prepared to accept this paper's claims. Economists have developed price theory. Referri...

Young Children Policing Group Members This post presents examples of psychologists inducing stress in experimental subjects, some showing...

This post is about the misrepresentation of Sraffian capital theory in Lewin and Cachanosky (2019). I cannot recommend this short book. Pre...