I’ll be traveling for the next few days. No posts then until I arrive. . .
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I’ll be traveling for the next 10 days or so. No posts then until I return. . .
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
Mark Tansey, “Coastline Measure” (1987)
As regular readers of this blog know, I try to make available and critically interpret descriptive statistics, mostly charts of data—to provide a foundation for a contemporary critique of political economy.
Last year, I spent a good bit of time using publicly available data to make my own graphs and charts, which readers are free to use for their own purposes.
Here are some of those charts (just click on each one to go to the post in which it originally appeared).
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
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
Trickledown economics—then and now
Why human capital is not capital
Globalization—how did they get it so wrong?
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.”
I’ll be traveling for the next couple of weeks. No posts then until I return. . .
