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Blogwatch & essays by Paul Walker

Blogwatch: April 2024
Free trade, the origin of government, the influence of Karl Marx, advice for economists, and growth in US inequality
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Paul Walker
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Blogwatch: December 2023🍋
Nobel ideas, Covid, nudges, flourishing, ranking, dollarisation & Phillips curves
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Paul Walker
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Blogwatch: October 2023 — in the footsteps of Adam Smith
Or what I did in the holidays
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Paul Walker
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Blogwatch: July 2023🍋
Mergers, minimum wages, carbon costs, masks, housing, EVs, inflation & prohibition
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Paul Walker
🍋3000 years of the firm: corporations, clans & government
The firm across history, and its emergence from the interactions of culture with institutions & economic development
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Paul Walker
Blogwatch: April 2023
Adam Smith anniversary, the New Deal, slavery, war & peace, and the Corn Laws
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Paul Walker
How economics changes: A case study of the theory of the firm (Part 2 of 2)
What changed around 1970?
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Paul Walker
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?
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Paul Walker
Blogwatch: January 2023
Regressive cigarette taxes, slavery, economic consequences of war, & other fields/topics
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Paul Walker
The history of the theory of production in one figure
Everything you wanted to know ... but were afraid (or bored) to ask
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Paul Walker
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Blogwatch: October 2022
Econ degrees, riveters, Luddites, bias, pig-wrestling; and life & death among the Econ
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Paul Walker
Adam Smith's missed opportunity
Smith gave us no theory of the firm
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Paul Walker
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