Aug 9, 202027 minI hate economicsI'm an imbecile at economics. Over the years, I've tried to educate myself, but it never really works. My brain does philosophy and...
Jul 19, 20193 minThoughts on planning vs. the marketBeen reading The People's Republic of Walmart: How the World's Biggest Corporations Are Laying the Foundation for Socialism. It's a good...
May 31, 20161 minRandom notes on Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, economics, and traditional ChinaYears ago I read and took some notes on various works by Hannah Arendt. In particular her classic Origins of Totalitarianism. It's a...
Jan 12, 20166 minFragments on bourgeois ideologistsOn neoclassical economics.— Milton Friedman wrote a famous article in 1953 called “The Methodology of Positive Economics,” in which he...
Sep 26, 20157 minEconomics as class warReading the Chomsky-recommended Political Economy and Laissez-Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardian Era (1986), by Rajani Kanth....
Sep 5, 20154 minThoughts on Marxian economics According to Karl Marx, capitalism functions in such a way that its appearance differs from its essence. What happens in the...
Aug 6, 20152 minReason vs. mainstream economicsClassical and neoclassical economics are silly. Maybe at times they stumble into a good idea or two, but the foundation is unreal. Let’s...
Feb 22, 20152 minThe coming great depressionThe following is a resolution proposed at a Chicago conference of the Communist Party’s Unemployed Councils in 1930, in the context of...
Feb 11, 20152 minCapitalism, socialism, and planningIdeological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...