Last night I watched the Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma (https://www.netflix.com/title/81254224), in which former employees of the big Silicon Valley social media companies expose the serious and sometimes tragic or even fatal consequences that social media may have on individual lives. These social media services are run by commercial companies under pressure from shareholders to make ever increasing profits.

“I am convinced that openness and transparency make research outputs and outcomes better,” says Stefanie Haustein when asked what motivates her to practice open scholarship. “Knowledge produced by the scholarly community should be open to all, not hidden behind paywalls.”

I build an app that lets you explore my econospeak data.

I built a bot that counts word frequency. Here’s what it says about the language in economics textbooks.

Check out the new and improved Capital as Power Forum.

Here’s a tale about empirical work that demonstrates a simple rule: the deeper you go, the harder it gets.

At the eLife Sprint in September 2020, we revamped the covidpreprints.com website, which aims at featuring landmark preprints on a timeline of the pandemic. The birth of the project The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to about 35 million confirmed cases and over a million deaths worldwide.

A post in which I ask for money the radical political-economist way.

Exciting news! I am the new editor of the Review of Capital as Power .

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