Unlearning Economics·Dec 4, 2024Astonishingly Poor Empirics, Cockshott Edition“When a statistician criticizes a claim on technical grounds, he or she is declaring not that the original finding is wrong but that it has…A response icon3A response icon3
Unlearning Economics·Jul 20, 2023The 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…A response icon8A response icon8
Unlearning Economics·Jun 7, 2021Matt 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…A response icon3A response icon3
Unlearning Economics·Jan 20, 2021What is an ‘Anecdote’?There is an understandable tendency among quantitative types to dismiss ‘anecdotes’: stories about one person which make unjustified…A response icon1A response icon1
Unlearning Economics·Jul 25, 2020Rethinking Causation in EconomicsA while ago Josh Mason asked on twitter whether we need to understand mechanisms to determine causation, which sparked an interesting…
Unlearning Economics·Mar 26, 2020Why 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…A response icon2A response icon2
Unlearning Economics·Apr 5, 2019Nobody Believes Friedman (1953)Inspired by Beatrice Webb’s typically informative tweetstorm about Milton Friedman’s famous 1953 essay The Methodology of Positive…A response icon2A response icon2
Unlearning Economics·Mar 9, 2019Thoughts 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…
Unlearning Economics·Sep 4, 2018Are 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…
Unlearning Economics·Jul 29, 2018Where 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…A response icon4A response icon4
