Monday, July 27, 2020

It Was Supposed to Go a Bit Differently: Fall 2020 Economics Doctoral Admissions.

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On my desk at work, I have had a note that says something like “write up the admissions process, post statements of purpose” for months. Of ...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

A Very Necessary Book: Kelton's "The Deficit Myth"

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Back after the 2008 crisis, I had lost my job and was sitting around unemployed and I started to get interested in economics for the first t...
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

When everyone sees what is on the end of every fork: Oesterich's "Pandemic Capitalism"

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The pandemic that we got going on around here has gotten me thinking of two separate but related things. The first is from the novel / lit...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

On Vollrath's "Fully Grown"

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In Fully Grown, Vollrath really takes you step by step through what was lowering the rate of GDP growth in the last couple of decades. For m...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

Above the System: On General Laws of Capitalism

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Capital starts with the commodity form of production, but Marx is not focused on the commodity in his grand work. Instead he is lookin...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Capitalism: Golden Ages?

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Compare and contrast the analysis of the rise and fall of the Golden Age of Capitalism/Social Democracy in Bowles and Carlin’s CORE-ECON Cha...

Rational Class Consciousness

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The “rational class consciousness'” hypothesis is that in a class-based model, each class, besides being modeled, will use the model to ...