This is the grave of Joseph Berliner. Born in 1921 in New York, Berliner grew up in Rockaway Beach, Queens. He was a very smart kid and got into Harvard, where he did a bachelor's and then stayed on for the PhD. He became an...
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Because of overlords who love to turn DATA into a fetish, anytime an economist demonstrates something historians have known for twenty years, it gets headlines in major papers because NUMBERS..
This is the grave of Paul Saumelson. Born in 1915 in Gary, Indiana, Samuelson grew up in a Jewish immigrant family. His father was a pharmacist who did well and.
I was struck in the post from last week on strikes in 2023 how many people in comments asserted that a strong economy leads to more strikes. This evidently is taken as almost a given by many economists. The problem with this assertion is that...
This is the grave of Simon Kuznets. Born in 1901 is Pinsk, in what is now Belarus, Kuznets grew up in a Jewish intellectual family that had money. He got.
This is the grave of Sumner Slichter. Born in 1892 in Madison, Wisconsin, Slichter grew up in the local elite. His father was a dean at the University of Wisconsin..
This is the grave of Josef Schumpeter, though in the U.S., he would routinely spell his name the Anglicized way of Joseph. Born in what is today the Czech Republic in 1883, Schumpeter always rejected anything to do with the Czechs. He considered himself a...
Economists have a special power to cause problems if they choose to be villains. This is because of our twin obsessions with money and data. They are seen to have.
It's well known how right-wing economists have long seen Chile as their personal playground to play out their fantasies of austerity politics backed by authoritarian violence. The Chicago Boys were.
As has bothered some of you, I think the field of Economics is largely intellectually bankrupt, a field specializing in mathematical formulas that tell us almost nothing about human behavior, a field serving as intellectual hacks for free-market global capitalism that provides justification for the...
Noah Smith bluntly states that free trade with China has devastated the American working class. Moreover, he attacks economists for being unwilling to question their assumptions that free trade is.