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19 Sept 2026

The Business of War and the Mismeasurement of Military Might original ↗

22 May 2026

Why Kids Are Getting Worse at Reading: The Case Against Whole-Language Teaching original ↗

28 Mar 2026

The Human Lifespan Probably has an Upper Limit … and Why That’s Good original ↗

11 Feb 2026

US Oil-and-Gas Production: Signs of an Impending Bust original ↗

24 Jan 2026

An Unfolding Scientific Revolution in Cosmology original ↗

15 Jan 2026

2025

Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters original ↗

26 Oct 2025

Insights from the Lotka-Volterra Model original ↗

15 Sept 2025

The Soviet Experiment with Empire original ↗

13 May 2025

The Half Life of Empire original ↗

4 May 2025

The Deep Roots of Fascist Thought original ↗

15 Apr 2025

Partisan Politics and the Road to Plutocracy original ↗

31 Jan 2025

2024

The American Housing Crisis: A Theft, Not a Shortage original ↗

23 Oct 2024

From Commodity to Asset: The Truth Behind Rising House Prices original ↗

22 Aug 2024

A Tour of the Jevons Paradox: How Energy Efficiency Backfires original ↗

18 May 2024

Five Years of Economics from the Top Down original ↗

27 Apr 2024

Is Bitcoin More Energy Intensive Than Mainstream Finance?original ↗

21 Mar 2024

Nixing Technological Lock In original ↗

17 Feb 2024

2023

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29 Dec 2023

Massaging the Message: How Oilpatch Newspapers Censor the News original ↗

22 Dec 2023

Stocking Up on Wealth … Concentration original ↗

23 Nov 2023

When Stocks Go Up, Who Benefits?original ↗

28 Oct 2023

The Great Gatsby Curve Among America’s Über Rich original ↗

13 Oct 2023

How the Rich Get Richer original ↗

24 Sept 2023

Billionaires Are So Predictable original ↗

3 Sept 2023

Mapping the Ownership Network of Canada’s Billionaire Families original ↗

23 Jun 2023

A Blind Leap original ↗

18 Jun 2023

No, AI Does Not Pose an Existential Risk to Humanity original ↗

10 Jun 2023

Masochistic Fun with Plutocratic Murder original ↗

20 May 2023

Red Team Blues: Cory Doctorow’s Anti-Finance Thriller original ↗

13 May 2023

Unemployment and the Maturity of Capitalism original ↗

6 May 2023

Interest Rates and Unemployment: An Underwhelming Relation original ↗

30 Apr 2023

How Interest Rates Redistribute Income original ↗

16 Apr 2023

Inflation! The Battle Between Creditors and Workers original ↗

23 Mar 2023

The Key to Managing Inflation? Higher Wages original ↗

2 Mar 2023

Interest Rates and Inflation: Knives Out original ↗

19 Feb 2023

Do High Interest Rates Reduce Inflation? A Test of Monetary Faith original ↗

4 Feb 2023

The Cause of Stagflation original ↗

26 Jan 2023

Is Stagflation the Norm?original ↗

17 Jan 2023

2022

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29 Dec 2022

Inflation: Everywhere and Always Differential original ↗

15 Dec 2022

Firming Up Hierarchy original ↗

19 Nov 2022

How To Be an Academic Hyper-Producer original ↗

18 Oct 2022

How to Make the Oil Industry Go Bust original ↗

24 Sept 2022

Dualism in Science, Theology, and Economics original ↗

10 Aug 2022

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20 Jul 2022

Have We Passed Peak Capitalism?original ↗

12 Jul 2022

Weird Consilience: A Review of Joseph Henrich’s ‘The WEIRDest People in the World’original ↗

20 May 2022

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation original ↗

8 Apr 2022

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30 Mar 2022

In Search of Sabotage original ↗

11 Mar 2022

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10 Feb 2022

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29 Dec 2021

COVID Déjà Vu original ↗

21 Dec 2021

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8 Dec 2021

The Truth About Inflation original ↗

24 Nov 2021

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5 Nov 2021

Redistributing Income Through Hierarchy original ↗

24 Oct 2021

Talking Hierarchy With Rachel Donald original ↗

22 Oct 2021

Soft-wars original ↗

20 Oct 2021

Institution Size as a Window into Cultural Evolution original ↗

18 Oct 2021

A Review of Geoffrey West’s ‘Scale’original ↗

4 Oct 2021

How Dominant are Big US Corporations?original ↗

29 Sept 2021

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27 Sept 2021

Power Over Principles original ↗

21 Sept 2021

Tidyquant: An Open-Access Tool for Studying the Stock Market original ↗

18 Sept 2021

The Long, Slow Death of the Free Market original ↗

16 Sept 2021

How the Labor Theory of Value Emerges from Egalitarianism original ↗

11 Sept 2021

With Great Power Comes Great Fear original ↗

30 Aug 2021

The Evolution of ‘Big’: How Sociality Made Life Larger original ↗

12 Aug 2021

My Coding Mix original ↗

20 Jul 2021

Is Human Probability Intuition Actually ‘Biased’?original ↗

9 Jul 2021

Essentialism and Traditionalism in Academic Research original ↗

2 Jul 2021

The Half Life of a Spotify Hit original ↗

18 Jun 2021

The Quant Case for Open-Access COVID Vaccines original ↗

9 Jun 2021

The Ritual of Capitalization original ↗

2 Jun 2021

RECASP Back Catalogue Now in Full-Text HTML original ↗

31 May 2021

A Brief History of the Buy-to-Build Indicator original ↗

13 May 2021

Once More Into the Fire of Academia original ↗

10 May 2021

Free Speech For Me, Not You original ↗

6 May 2021

Jesús Suaste Cherizola Wins the 2021 CASP Essay Prize original ↗

3 May 2021

Energy and Economic Development: Understanding the Role of Hierarchy original ↗

29 Apr 2021

The Deep History of Human Inequality original ↗

16 Apr 2021

Power … and the Dialect of Economics original ↗

30 Mar 2021

Why Are Most Textbooks Still Proprietary?original ↗

17 Mar 2021

This Blog is Now ‘Free Culture’original ↗

16 Mar 2021

Energizing Exchange: Learning from Econophysics’ Mistakes original ↗

12 Mar 2021

A Review of Carey King’s ‘The Economic Superorganism’original ↗

5 Mar 2021

Radically Progressive Degrowth: Reducing Resource Use by Eliminating Inequality original ↗

26 Feb 2021

Living the Good Life in a Non-Growth World — The Talk Version original ↗

18 Feb 2021

Living the Good Life in a Non-Growth World: Investigating the Role of Hierarchy (Part 2)original ↗

9 Feb 2021

The Trouble With Human Capital Theory original ↗

1 Feb 2021

The Rise of Human Capital Theory original ↗

14 Jan 2021

Living the good life in a non-growth world: Investigating the role of hierarchy original ↗

5 Jan 2021

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Top 5 Posts of 2020 original ↗

31 Dec 2020

As 2020 Ends, Let’s Celebrate Science original ↗

28 Dec 2020

Why and How I Write Scientific Documents in Plain Text original ↗

10 Dec 2020

As We Exhaust Our Oil, It Will Get Cheaper But Less Affordable original ↗

3 Dec 2020

Peak Oil Never Went Away original ↗

16 Nov 2020

The Deconstructing Econospeak App original ↗

5 Nov 2020