Kohei Saito's "manifesto" of degrowth communism was BIG in Japan, selling half a million copies in the first year and a half a...

       One of the tallest trees in the economic forest has fallen:  Bob Solow has died at the age of 99. The modern study of economic growth...

It is a problem that has vexed and eluded Marxists -- and tantalized critics of Marx -- for a century and a half. If I am correct, Karl Marx...

Was Karl Marx a “degrowth communist” as Kohei Saito claims in Marx in the Anthropocene ? In a word, no. But the whole truth is even stranger...

 Imagine:  Trump convicted of federal crimes by Jack Smith, sentenced to prison and imprisoned during 2024 election cycle, wins election and...

 I'm more and more convinced that the simplest way out of the debt-ceiling morass would be to start issuing perpetual bonds or consols (...

Let’s get the up-or-down part of this review over with quickly: Escape from Model Land: How Mathematical Models Can Lead Us Astray and What ...

It’s a rare day when an economist plays the key role in a novel, and even rarer when one of the supporting players is John Maynard Keynes hi...

Recent events in Florida—the “Stop WOKE” Act, the rejection of AP African American Studies, the hostile takeover of New College—and the publ...

Sandwichman came across a fascinating and disconcerting new dissertation, titled "Carbon Purgatory: The Dysfunctional Political Economy...

Eating is a necessity and can be a great pleasure.  It also has a symbolic dimension in every culture.  In the long history of European civi...

The Biden administration has announced it is inaugurating a program to incorporate the value of natural resources and ecological services in...

  They are falling all around me They are falling all around me They are falling all around me The strongest leaves of my tree Every paper b...

I've just learned that Barkley Rosser, the mainstay of this blog, died yesterday.  I'd crossed paths with him in Madison, WI in the ...

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