I hate economics
I'm an imbecile at economics. Over the years, I've tried to educate myself, but it never really works. My brain does philosophy and...
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- Jul 19, 2019
- 3 min
Thoughts on planning vs. the market
Been 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, 2016
- 1 min
Random notes on Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, economics, and traditional China
Years 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, 2016
- 6 min
Fragments on bourgeois ideologists
On neoclassical economics.— Milton Friedman wrote a famous article in 1953 called “The Methodology of Positive Economics,” in which he...
- Sep 26, 2015
- 7 min
Economics as class war
Reading the Chomsky-recommended Political Economy and Laissez-Faire: Economics and Ideology in the Ricardian Era (1986), by Rajani Kanth....
- Sep 5, 2015
- 4 min
Thoughts 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, 2015
- 2 min
Reason vs. mainstream economics
Classical 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, 2015
- 2 min
The coming great depression
The following is a resolution proposed at a Chicago conference of the Communist Party’s Unemployed Councils in 1930, in the context of...
- Feb 11, 2015
- 2 min
Capitalism, socialism, and planning
Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...