A week or so ago, Alvaro La Parra-Perez tweeted a link to a Rafael del Pino master conference presentation (think of this as being asked to address bigwigs by Brookings Institute or American Enterp…| winter tomato
“We will content ourselves with a reasonable middle ground between servile flattery and the boldness of a censor.”| winter tomato
“Why some buyers pay more than others.” Robert Frank begins the so-named chapter of The Economic Naturalist with this statement: The law of one price applies most forcefully in perfectly competiti…| winter tomato
In honor of Black Friday, I have a question for the ‘Economic Naturalist’. My wife and I both received Thanksgiving sale catalogues from a clothing chain retailer. A sticker on the front of my wi…| winter tomato
To Jason Hickel: I read your blog post elaborating the “de-growth” position that was recently criticized by Branko Milanovic. I have not read your recent book linking the inequality debate to the …| winter tomato
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Several days ago, Prateek Raj retweeted a capsule HBR article by Piero Formica, “Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire”. Retweeting it myself, I said “This is bad hi…| winter tomato
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a feature on Willard, Ohio – a town of some 6,000 people about 30 miles southwest of my birthplace of Oberlin and about 15 miles northeast of Savannah, where my 90…| winter tomato
Some months ago, Pseudoerasmus posted The 25 most stimulating economic history books since 2000 – not a “best” list, exactly, but a list premised on “best” = “makes you think”. My original, absurd…| winter tomato
Introduction “Zen,” said Ronald Eyre, the seeker-host of the BBC television series The Long Search, “is fatally easy to talk about.”[i] That being so, few people have spoken or written as muc…| winter tomato
