Blogwatch & essays by Paul Walker

Blogwatch: September 2024

Productivity vs. wages, the number of firms, the basis of degrowth, and the importance of organisations

Sep 28 •

Blogwatch: June 2024🍋

Michael Jensen, Rome & an industrial revolution, minimum wages, PPP comparisons, income effects on violent crime, rent controls, and Covid & small…

Jun 18 •

Blogwatch: April 2024 🍋

Free trade, the origin of government, the influence of Karl Marx, advice for economists, and growth in US inequality

Apr 1 •

Blogwatch: December 2023🍋

Nobel ideas, Covid, nudges, flourishing, ranking, dollarisation & Phillips curves

Dec 12, 2023 •

Blogwatch: October 2023 — in the footsteps of Adam Smith

Or what I did in the holidays

Oct 6, 2023 •

Blogwatch: July 2023🍋

Mergers, minimum wages, carbon costs, masks, housing, EVs, inflation & prohibition

Jul 29, 2023 •

🍋3000 years of the firm: corporations, clans & government

The firm across history, and its emergence from the interactions of culture with institutions & economic development

Jun 24, 2023 •

Blogwatch: April 2023

Adam Smith anniversary, the New Deal, slavery, war & peace, and the Corn Laws

Apr 29, 2023 •

How economics changes: A case study of the theory of the firm (Part 2 of 2)

What changed around 1970?

Feb 25, 2023 •

How economics changes: A case study of the theory of the firm (Part 1 of 2)

Why did economics ignore the firm for so long?

Feb 25, 2023 •

Blogwatch: January 2023

Regressive cigarette taxes, slavery, economic consequences of war, & other fields/topics

Jan 28, 2023 •

The history of the theory of production in one figure

Everything you wanted to know ... but were afraid (or bored) to ask

Dec 17, 2022 •

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