The Radford Free Press – Page 31 – All life is problem solving.

Economics / Design, Energy, growth theory, information, Jean-Baptiste Say /

Say it Ain’t So

August 18, 2022

I am nothing if not annoying. Allow me to elaborate. Let’s be basic. I mean really really basic. Our model world initially consists of two people, Adam and Eve. I know, it’s been done before. But we are economists. What are we interested in? What problems that Adam and Eve face do we want to […]

Economics / algorithms, growth theory, information, machine, machinery question, Ricardo /

Machine Age musings on algorithmic growth theory

August 4, 2022

Don’t mind me. I am just thinking out aloud… That we live in a Machine Age is indisputable. Our lifestyles depend entirely upon the mediation of machines. Without them modernity collapses back to whatever existed in the prior ages and we surrender most of what we currently cherish. And it is important to use the […]

Economics / Diane Coyle, economic theory, efficiency, Elizabeth Popp Berman, technocracy /

Thinking like an Economist?

May 18, 2022

Thinking like an economist. What a horrible thought. Can you imagine anything more restrictive and less imaginative? It requires you to disengage from reality and enter a world constrained by absurd assumptions, odd definitions, and a lack of foundation. The entire edifice of economics sits, in all its glory, suspended in mid-air and relying on […]

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