It’s time to put economics in line with the rest of science. We need a theory of resource distribution that accepts our evolved sociality.

The ideal of science is to respect the evidence — to take nobody’s word for it. But this cuts against our social instinct to pay deference to members of our tribe.

Here are 10 books that every economic heretic should read.

I show you my code for making pretty charts in ggplot.

In some countries, the top 1% share of income has increased while the Gini index has decreased. Here’s how it can happen.

The idea that income is proportional to productivity is a thought virus that needs to die.

The social sciences, I’ve come to believe, don’t have a coherent concept of causation. To talk about ‘causation’ we need to have a boundary on cause and effect. I reflect on what this means for studying causation.

We often talk about inequality using a single number — usually the Gini index. But the reality is that inequality is complex. To study inequality, we need to use multiple metrics.

Aaron Swartz fought for and (effectively) died for open access to the world’s scientific literature. I reflect on Swartz’s legacy, six years after his death.

In the United States, the income share of the top 1% is tightly related to the share of corporate dividends in national income.