Governments are different than firms, right? Maybe not. When it comes to size, governments behave like they’re just another firm.
Governments are different than firms, right? Maybe not. When it comes to size, governments behave like they’re just another firm.
I review evidence for the power ethos inside modern firms.
I show you my code for making pretty charts in ggplot.
An update to “The The Growth of Hierarchy and the Death of the Free Market”. I show you which countries are which.
Contrary to what neoclassical economists claim should happen, economic growth seems to involve less ‘free market’ and more hierarchy.
As societies use more energy, business firms tend to get bigger. Here’s how it happens.
Power laws are everywhere, but hard to grasp intuitively. I discuss some tricks for visualizing them.
If you are an empirical researcher, I have a challenge for you.
There is an exciting side of blogging that I want to explore here. Blogging can tell the story behind research. This is something you don’t get in journals. Most scientific articles obey a formula that goes like this: Here is the question I asked. Here is how I answered the question. Here is what I found. This formula makes the article easy to read, since we know what to expect.