I’ll be traveling for the next few days. No posts then until I arrive. . .
Posts Tagged ‘miscellaneous’
As I explained yesterday, some of my own favorite posts do not appear on the list of the ones that received the most views last year.
Here is a selection from the second half of 2017:
From oligarchs to Soviets—and back again
Economics and the new history of capitalism
The gilded age: a tale of today
Desperately seeking a link between wages and productivity
At the bottom of the wealth pyramid
The arc of (pre)history bends towards greater inequality
Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!

René Magritte, “Forbidden Literature (The Use of the Word)” (1936)
Some of the posts I most enjoyed writing do not appear on the list of the ones that received the most views last year.
Here is a sample of my favorites from the first half of 2017:
College and the American Dream
Lies, damn lies, and statistics
Robots don’t kill workers, do they?
“In this interregnum morbid phenomena of the most varied kind come to pass”
Populism and mainstream economics
Changing the story to hide the problem
Dual economies and the vanishing middle-class
Unsettling the binaries—of economics and war
Income and wealth—the top and the very top
End of Second Great Depression
The internet of things appears, at first sight, a very trivial thing, and easily understood