Anti-Dismal

(Almost) Everything You Wanted to Know About the History of the Theory of Production/the Firm: But Were Afr... by Paul Walker on Scribd

 

 

To me, it appears there is a lack of engagement with the theory of the firm by historians of economic thought. Evidence for this lack of int...

An interesting detail. Spulber (2008: 5, footnote 8) gives the origin of the word 'firm' as "[t]he word "firm" derive...

One assumption not discussed much in the mainstream theory of the firm is that of profit maximisation. Most theories of the firm take it as ...

Given an email discussion I was having with a friend (another economist) recently, I was reminded of something I wrote back in 2012. It seem...

 My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 70 , April 2021) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information.

My latest book is finally published!! The publisher's page for the book is here. Foundations of Organisational Economics: Histories an...

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 69 , December 2020) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information .

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 68 , August 2020) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information .

Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell’s journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of ...

This is a revised edition of Walker (2017). New sections or subsections have been added on the X-inefficiency model, the division of labour ...

From the Cato Daly Podcast comes this interview in which Geoffrey Manne of the International Center for Law and Economics evaluates the cla...

Does Zoom mean we all work from home? Will cities bounce back? Will San Francisco and New York fade and smaller cities grow? What problems a...

At VoxEU.org Mark Koyama is interviewed by Tim Phillips on the topic of The Black Death Seven hundred years ago the worst pandemic in his...

From the BBC's History Extra Podcast comes this discussion about Neanderthals. In an episode produced in collaboration with our colleag...

My Blogwatch column from the latest issue ( Issue 67 , April 2020) of the NZAE magazine Asymmetric Information .

From The Glenn Show comes this video in which Professor Glenn Loury interviews Professor Peter Arcidiacono on affirmative action.

If there is one thing we don't need in a pandemic it's wage and price controls. From the Cato Daily Podcast comes this discussion o...