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, 20193 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, 20161 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, 20166 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, 20157 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, 20154 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, 20152 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, 20152 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, 20152 min
Capitalism, socialism, and planning
Ideological hacks like Friedrich Hayek and his contemporary disciples pretend that the difference between capitalism and socialism is...
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