Why So Many Jewish Economists? - by Peter Dorman
and physicists, theoretical biologists and mathematicians....| peterdorman.substack.com
and physicists, theoretical biologists and mathematicians....| peterdorman.substack.com
More precisely, it’s the alignment theory, but ketchup gets the point across pretty well.| Left Angles
A delayed response to David Wallace-Wells| Left Angles
Over the past 100+ years, industrial capitalism has seen waves of vertical integration and outsourcing.| Left Angles
This widely praised documentary is actually pretty bad| Left Angles
Warning: what follows is a different approach to periodizing the last 80 years of political economic history.| Left Angles
If you follow the news, you will think it’s all about monetary policy.| Left Angles
Trump is censoring images and signage from national parks and monuments that speak to the horrors of slavery and the expulsion of native people.| Left Angles
What’s a phantom institution?| Left Angles
In so many ways, the current moment feels like a hallucination, a bad dream that will fade quickly when we open our eyes in the morning.| Left Angles
We were staying at a county campground the other night, and I got into a chat with the volunteer host.| Left Angles
The starting point for this post is the crisis in the Democratic Party, but the idea would apply to any political party trying to persuade voters that a vote for them is in their interests.| Left Angles
Why it’s good to have a system that counteracts disruptions, and why that isn’t enough| Left Angles
I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised to find out that a closed-doors discussion has been taking place online for the past seven years or so to develop the politics that put Trump in power and now guides his administration.| Left Angles
Unbounded executive power| Left Angles
Trump is not backing down in the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the immigrant who was mistakenly sent to what is effectively a death camp in El Salvador.| Left Angles
Their use in quantitative analysis is a CES-pool| Left Angles
Can Trump be deposed by the twenty-fifth amendment?| Left Angles
We normally think of people having purposes and gaining power to carry them out.| Left Angles
The interesting question is not why a few ignorant and deranged people like Trump and Musk are taking a wrecking ball to some of the core institutions of modern life, but why a much larger cohort of ostensibly more intelligent and rational political and economic elites have lined up behind them.| Left Angles
A sci-fi novel's unexpected legacy| peterdorman.substack.com
Thoughts on economics, politics and culture - and a sounding board for ideas I'm developing in my writing. Click to read Left Angles, by Peter Dorman, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.| peterdorman.substack.com
How much additional risk do we face?| peterdorman.substack.com
