The Astonishingly Poor Empirics of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to FallI’ve been meaning to follow up on my video about theories of value. I know it was released in November 2022, but I had (1) intensive…Jul 20, 20233Jul 20, 20233
Matt Bruenig Comes Out Against CommunismMatt Bruenig has a post where he takes on the anti-monopolists, characterising them as a group whose views are arguably best suited to a…Jun 7, 20213Jun 7, 20213
What is an ‘Anecdote’?There is an understandable tendency among quantitative types to dismiss ‘anecdotes’: stories about one person which make unjustified…Jan 20, 2021Jan 20, 2021
Rethinking Causation in EconomicsA while ago Josh Mason asked on twitter whether we need to understand mechanisms to determine causation, which sparked an interesting…Jul 25, 2020Jul 25, 2020
Why Blame Macroeconomists for Crises?WithWith the outbreak of covid-19, an event largely unrelated to economists and to which economists have produced sensible responses, it seems…Mar 26, 20202Mar 26, 20202
Nobody Believes Friedman (1953)Inspired by Beatrice Webb’s typically informative tweetstorm about Milton Friedman’s famous 1953 essay The Methodology of Positive…Apr 5, 20191Apr 5, 20191
Thoughts on ‘Behave’ by SapolskyBehave: the Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky is one of those books that has clarified my thinking on a lot of…Mar 9, 2019Mar 9, 2019
Are Critics of Economics Inconsistent?A little while ago on Twitter, Ben Harrell expressed exasperation at economics critics for a reason I’ve seen a few times: the critic first…Sep 4, 2018Sep 4, 2018
Where My Views Come FromBelow is a collection of books, academic papers blog posts/newspaper articles which I consider to represent or have shaped my views in an…Jul 29, 20183Jul 29, 20183
Seeing Like A Neoliberal, Part 4: Statistics, States and Seductive StoriesThis is the last post in my series critiquing the idea of ‘progress’ as depicted in statistical charts, so we must now ask the natural…Jun 1, 2018Jun 1, 2018
