Political economist. Blogger. Scientist. Editor: Review of Capital as Power. Patreon: patreon.com/blairfix
Man this is a great title: "‘Work is the blackmail of surviving’: Majority of Canadians say they’d be happier not working"
A nice thread about unfolding research on inflation and how it is (not) controlled by interest rates.
Insightful commentary on ideology from @BrankoMilan "Neoliberalism .. fulfilled the requirements of the best possible ideology: the one that a person defends and implements without ever realizing he is doing so."
Cory @doctorow's new book Red Team Blues is a must read. It's a fascinating take on the detective novel that gives real insight into plutocratic crime. Here's my review, complete with charts :)
An important piece from @doctorow about an astonishingly bad Canadian court decision to let a Proctorio SLAPP lawsuit go ahead. Really just absurd.
My colleague @notes_on_cinema has made the preprint of his book 'The Political Economy of Hollywood' freely available. I highly recommend giving it a read.
A fantastic essay by @interfluidity on why academia is structurally right wing.
An interesting paper from @d_orrell and Larry Richards. It argues that there's a major flaw in the Black-Scholes model of options pricing. The problem? Price volatility seems to be a function of the strike price.
Nice post. It looks like the Céline Choulet link is broken.
An interesting post on the pitfalls of meta-analysis. "Attempting to average across manipulations of different magnitudes is a bit like trying to answer the question of whether objects are on average light or heavy. It’s not a meaningful question."
Nice thread. You may find this satire of interest.
A good thread on inflation.
