Thoughts On Economics

I have occasionally written about vote-counting protocols.

Onondaga County is to the west of me. Syracuse, NY, is their major city. Members of the county legislature currently have term limits of 12 years. Twelve years is three terms. They are ...

People have been organized in diverse ways in many societies across time and space. A communist state existed for a century and a half in Paraguay in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. I doubt many socialists today want this degree of regimentation. This state extended into Argentia and Brazil.

The Jesuits, formally named the Society of Jesus, is a religious or...

1.0 Introduction

This post presents two approaches to fixed capital. The first emphasizes power and convention. It emphasizes that the 'money world', as Mason and Jayadev (2026) put it, is not a direct reflection of physical properties of production. The second is much closer to a determined model, with one degree of freedom.

I have at least one previous

I have been rereading Jack Birner's 2002 book, The Cambridge Controversies in Capital Theory. Birner is an economist of the Austrian school. He probably generally disagrees with me on lots of matters. Torward the start of the introduction, he writes:

"Four decades ago the best minds in economics were engaged in a confrontation which the entire profession followe...

Emilia-Romagna is a region in Italy, north of Tuscany. I have written about its capital, Bologna, before.

About a third of the gross domestic product of Emilia-Romagna is produced by co-operatives. About two thirds of those ...