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    I hate economics
    • Aug 9, 2020
    • 27 min

    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...
    Thoughts on planning vs. the market
    • 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...
    Random notes on Hannah Arendt, Max Weber, economics, and traditional China
    • 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...
    Fragments on bourgeois ideologists
    • 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...
    Economics as class war
    • 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....
    Thoughts on Marxian economics
    • 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...
    Reason vs. mainstream economics
    • 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...
    The coming great depression
    • 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...
    Capitalism, socialism, and planning
    • 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...

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