I have been struck by an outpouring of commentary on Facebook and elsewhere by professional economists just flabbergasted that Vladimir Puti...

These thoughts are occasioned by reading Crow Planet by Lyanda Lynn Haupt, this year’s mandatory all-campus reading at my college.  (I had...

Peter Ewart acted as conduit for another cultural transmission, this one political-economic rather than mechanical. If Grimshaw's mill h...

One of the bigger long-running scandals in the economics scientific credit game has been the downgrading of the role of the late Lionel W. M...

"One way to understand Keynes's  General Theory  is that Say's Law is false in theory but that we can build the running code f...

There’s an article in this morning’s New York Times that summarizes some recent research on the effects that maternity leaves, paid and unp...

Mark Thoma at Economist's View links to Brad DeLong's post  Making Sense of Friedrich A. von Hayek  in which DeLong once again reit...

In August of 1807 several of Manchester's most prominent citizens petitioned the British government to grant an award to Edmund Cartwrig...

As that famous non-meteorologist, Bob Dylan, once sang, "You don't need a weatherman To know which way the wind blows." Some...

It appears the Sandwichman has inadvertently stumbled onto Professor Rosser's inherited PRIVATE intellectual property : "I do n...

Gödel's Theorem illustrated with regard to Say's Law and the Theory of the Lump of Labour: "...a fallacy long recognized by e...

The moral to this story, as to any tale, is not fully circumscribed by its plot. The story's composition, its reception and retelling, t...

Eleventh Special Report of the Commissioner of Labour. Regulation and Restriction of Output, reviewed by David F. Schloss,  The Economic Jo...

A little over a year ago, Sandwichman posted  Peer Review: Economists and the Rhetoric of Groveling . It may seem a bit unfair to single out...

I am not keen on poking at a post appearing on Angry Bear, a friendly blog that often links favorably to posts here by many of us and with w...