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Economics, Uncategorized / complexity, economic theory, Heckman, Levitt /

The Eclipse of Economics?

April 11, 2024

Steve Levitt is moving on. Is it an eclipse? Which gets me to … I have a use for all those used special glasses we Americans just acquired en masse. The ones that allowed us to look at the sun during its eclipse. We can recycle them — there will be more eclipses soon. Or […]

Economics / capital, economic theory, growth theory, labor, Solow /

The Trouble with Words

March 11, 2024

Words are not ideas. They are our means to capture ideas and make them tangible. The problem is that words are a porous net that inevitably lets some accuracy slip away, but sometimes captures irrelevant detail that shines brightly in the moment and then dulls in the light of later thought. Trying to define something […]

Economics / capitalism, democracy, Hayek, inequality, neoliberalism, von Mises /

Neoliberal Angst?

January 31, 2024

I wonder why it is that neoliberals so reject the label we have given them. Is it because they’e embarrassed? I don’t think so. They all seem very proud of their attachment to the old order. Every so often one of them will surface and proclaim bitterly that they are misunderstood and they they don’t […]

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