Thoughts On Economics

Anwar Shaikh has died. Those who knew him or are more familiar with his work will have more to say. I know a few elements of his work:

This post is a continuation of this previous one. I solve a numerical example at a given rate of profits. In this example combining extensive and intensive rent, the order of fertility is opposite the order of rentability.

I find t...

This post is revisiting this example of extensive and intensive rent. I find...

I have various results in examples with rent, and unsolved problems exist in the literature. Vienneau (2022) shows an example of the reswitching of the order of fertility and of the order of rentability in non-overlapping regions of the parameter space. D’Agata (1983) shows that, with intensive rent, the choice of technique can be non-unique away from switch points. Some wag...

I like to point out that Marx had sense. Engels lent him the necessary pence.

As demonstrate...