Thoughts On Economics

In 1929, John Maynard Keynes and Hubert D. Henderson wrote, Can Lloyd George Do It? The Pledge Examined . This was published by The Nation ...

In a blog associated with the Frankfurter Allegmeine, Gerald Braunberger criticizes the effects of Sraffian political economy on Italian p...

Figure 1: A Pattern Diagram This post illustrates the numeric example used here . The example is of an economy in which two commod...

I have a working paper . Abstract: This article extends to unequal rates of profits a derivation of prices of production from a lin...

I first became aware of David Graeber as a poster on Usenet back in the 1990s. Many people who have succeeded in this world have no inter...

1.0 Introduction Piero Sraffa wrote down his 'first equations' in 1927, for an economy without a surplus. D3/12/5 starts with thes...

Paul Graham jokingly asks, "What phrase signals that the person using it doesn't understand your field?" Stephen Gordon and ...

I have a new working paper . The article presents previously unpublished material from file D13/12/111 in Sraffa's archives. In parti...

"Typically 2 the integer is used for counting, whereas 2 the real number is used for measuring. But in higher mathematics there...

These seem to be resources for providing the student with an overview of schools of thought, fields, and the history of economics. Explor...

Zach Carter's The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, amd the Life of John Maynard Keynes . James Crotty's Keynes Against Capit...

"One must be able to say at all times - instead of points, straight lines, and planes -- tables, chairs, and beer mugs." -- Dav...

... If you speak of a revolution in mathematics, you are likely to be treated to the ironic response, "Oh, so two and two now make...

I have long been convinced that many mainstream economists, however they performed under hazing, do not understand mathematics. "T. ...

I have been exploring Sraffa's correspondence after the publication of his book. Here is a letter dated June 18, 1962, from Mathur to S...

Neoclassical Political Economy You may have seen the above overly polite video. I have not done this in a while, even before the pandem...

Marx is mostly right. That is the conclusion one should draw from capital theory. But honestly understanding how we are fed, clothed, and...

1.0 Introduction One inspiration for this post is stumbling across this abstract 2.0 Marx Start with labor coefficients and a Leontief...

I have been looking at Sraffa's archives . Scott Carter was responsible for putting them online, as I understand it. Anyways, I know so...

I have defined patterns of switch points in considering perturbations of examples of the choice of technique. For example, I have defined t...