Econ Autodidactic

The persistence of one thinker in economics over another is something I have been wrestling with, but haven’t come to any sound conclusions....

Before this section, I only really knew two things about him. The first was that he wrote the book the Theory of the Leisure class and tha...

“Something Ventured” is a documentary celebrating Silicon Valley venture capitalists. The movie made me angry. I have to first admit, I a...

Joan Robinson devotes entire chapters to describing the causes and likely consequences of changes in investment and changes in thriftiness....

What I think I’m trying to ask is if there is ever really a singular thing out here that we can call “economics” as a course of study? Bec...

I don’t know if there will ever be a final word on this argument. The Ricardian argument for comparative advantage feels right in the m...

The study of economics is very Eurocentric. This is reinforced by the reading in the History of Economic thought where once we get p...