It’s the start of a new year, and thus the appropriate time to look back on the old one.
Over the course of 2017, I cut back on the number of posts (to a total of about 600), partly because I decided not to post on weekends (other than cartoons) and partly because I shifted some of what had been shorter posts in the past to my Twitter feed.*
Still, the posts on the blog received about 100 thousand views—half from the United States and the other half from 180 or so different countries and territories around the world—during 2017.
As I noted at the time, the blog reached one million total views in March. And, according to my rough calculations, I have written something on the order of two million words in more than five thousand posts since I started the blog in 2009.
Here are the individual posts (most from 2017, some from previous years) that received the most views last year:
The unholy alliance of Trump voters
Radicals versus liberals
Hillbilly Elegy
Capital (gains) vs. labor (income)
Poverty of redistribution liberalism
Neoclassical economists and the minimum wage
Nobel economics: the behaviorism of economic decisions and its secret
Capitalocene
Trickledown economics—then and now
Narrative economics
Class, in a nutshell
The top and the very top
Why human capital is not capital
“Labour is a disgrace”
Globalization—how did they get it so wrong?
Late capitalism?
White trash
I want to thank the folks at the Real-World Economics Review Blog, Progress in Political Economy, and Democracy at Work for reposting some of the items that originally appeared here, thus expanding the conversation.
I especially want to thank the many readers—Wordpress and email followers (more than a thousand of you), as well as regular and infrequent visitors—who, my hope is, find the occasional useful insights in what I link to and comment on. . .
*My plan is to cut back the number of posts even further in 2018, in order to have more time to work on my current book, “Utopia and Critique.”
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