Thoughts On Economics

Zach Carter has an appreciation of Joan Robinson's work on imperfect competition, with a bit about the role of Cambridge circus in hel...

Figure 1: Wage Curves for the Example 1.0 Introduction The Cambridge Capital Controversy (CCC) applies to models both of competitiv...

I have a working paper at the Centro Sraffa. Abstract: This article considers structural economic dynamics, in models with fixed ca...

An Introduction to Algebraic Geometry I have been looking for fluke switch points in certain parameter spaces of coefficients for polynom...

He had been droning along about 'value,' comparing the Marxist theory with the orthodox 'use' theory. Mr. Dubois had said,...

The Banach-Tarski Paradox The Hahn-Banach theorem is related to how mainstream economics model perfect competition. The video above i...

Figure 1: Isoquants For The Production Function 1.0 Introduction I often assume a discrete technology in my demonstrations that wha...

I sometimes wonder if most mainstream economists think that most of what they were taught, teach, and research are some combination of fals...

"The labor supply curve slopes upward, reflecting differences in workers’ reservation wages (as driven by outside opportunities...

Maybe, perhaps, that is a bit hyperbolic. But it has been known for at least half a century that, even in competitive markets, wages and em...

What is neoclassical economics? (This post draws on something I wrote on Usenet more than a decade ago.) I believe I might have introduced ...

A start (see links on the left) of advice to a student interested in how to introduce an evolutionary approach into economics. A podc...

A Discussion On The Best (or Worst) Of Mankiw Peter Bofinger has expanded a series of tweets to point out some stuff that is just wrong...

1.0 Introduction My consistent position is that Sraffa and his followers, besides recovering an alternate approach to value and distributi...

I have not read all of these, and you might think I am being unfair with this post title. If you want critiques of post modernism, try the ...

Can I adapt Roemer's work, suitably taking into account later work by D'Agata and Zambelli, to found this approach to markup prici...

I only know about this at the level of a Wikipedia article . Or maybe a short newspaper article . Some of you doubtlessly know more. Some...

1.0 Introduction In my ROBE article, I consider fluke switch points arising from perturbations of coefficients of production in the Samuel...

'Paradoxes' and 'Perversities' Phenomenon Example Region Reswitching 'One good' 5 Schefold reswitching 3 Schefol...

Figure 1: A Two-Dimensional Pattern Diagram, Enlarged 1.0 Introduction This post further generalizes an example from Salvatore Bald...