Unlearning EconomicsThe 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…16 min read·Jul 20, 2023--3--3
Unlearning EconomicsMatt 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…6 min read·Jun 7, 2021--3--3
Unlearning EconomicsWhat is an ‘Anecdote’?There is an understandable tendency among quantitative types to dismiss ‘anecdotes’: stories about one person which make unjustified…3 min read·Jan 20, 2021----
Unlearning EconomicsRethinking Causation in EconomicsA while ago Josh Mason asked on twitter whether we need to understand mechanisms to determine causation, which sparked an interesting…8 min read·Jul 25, 2020----
Unlearning EconomicsWhy 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…3 min read·Mar 26, 2020--2--2
Unlearning EconomicsNobody Believes Friedman (1953)Inspired by Beatrice Webb’s typically informative tweetstorm about Milton Friedman’s famous 1953 essay The Methodology of Positive…4 min read·Apr 5, 2019--1--1
Unlearning EconomicsThoughts 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…8 min read·Mar 9, 2019----
Unlearning EconomicsAre 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…6 min read·Sep 4, 2018----
Unlearning EconomicsWhere 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…10 min read·Jul 29, 2018--3--3
Unlearning EconomicsSeeing 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…8 min read·Jun 1, 2018----