When it comes to inflation, economists get it wrong. More than anything else, inflation is about income redistribution.
Karl Marx declared that all value stems from labor. Was he right?
I quantify the cutthroat nature of the music industry by measuring the half life of hit songs — the time they spend above 50% of their peak popularity.
I take a detailed look at the quantitative ritual that orders our social world.
Let’s move all textbooks to the Creative Commons.
I take a look at kinetic exchange models of income, and what we can learn from their mistakes.
I review Carey King’s new book ‘The Economic Superorganism’.
I look at the degrowth that might be achieved by eliminating inequality.
Frederick Soddy looms large in the field of ecological economics. Here’s a short dive into his ideas.