Blog Archives

• 2022
• Money & Macro

  Finance in a Theory of Money

• 2021
• Philosophy

  In Defense of Motivated Belief

• Political Economy

  Money’s Mutation of the Modern Moral Mind: The Simmel Hypothesis and the Cultural Evolution of WEIRDness

• Culture & Current Events

  Professional Culture and Market Power

• 2020
• Philosophy

  Paternalism Is Justifiable on Civil Libertarian Grounds

• Philosophy

  The Linguistics of Corrupted Language: Why Orwell Doesn't Need Whorf

• Philosophy

  Why Is Money Morally Suspect? Karl Polanyi vs. Georg Simmel

• Culture & Current Events

  What Computer-Generated Language Tells Us About Our Own Ideological Thinking

  —External link to quillette.com »

• Political Economy

  It’s Not Socialism, It’s Clientelism

  —External link to areomagazine.com »

• Money & Macro

  Let’s Move Past the Hayek-Keynes Debate

• Money & Macro

  What’s Holding Back Blockchain Finance?

• Money & Macro

  Unmixing the Metaphors of Austrian Capital Theory

• Political Economy

  Returns to Scale, Not State Capacity

• 2019
• Political Economy

  The Feudal Origins of the Western Legal Tradition

• Political Economy

  Precise Theories Aren’t More Falsifiable

• Political Economy

  Myth and Modernity: A Review of Persecution and Toleration

  —External link to www.liberalcurrents.com »

• Political Economy

  Environmentalism Needs Pronatalism

• Money & Macro

  What’s Radical about MMT? An Attempt to Pin Down MMT on Public Finance

• Political Economy

  What Does It Mean To Impact Institutions? Tiebout vs. Cascade Models of Institutional Change

• Culture & Current Events

  Play, The Antidote to Populism

  —External link to www.liberalcurrents.com »

• 2018
• Money & Macro

  The Importance of Units in Economics

• Political Economy

  Thoughts on the Paradox of Tolerance

• Political Economy

  Inside and Outside Perspectives on Institutions

• Political Economy

  Discretion Is Necessary For Commitment Power

• Political Economy

  How To Derive A Demand Function from a CES Utility Function

• 2017
• Philosophy

  Worry About Piety Contests, Not ‘Virtue Signaling’

  —External link to quillette.com »

• Philosophy

  Why Wittgenstein Needs Chomsky: Language vs. the Language Faculty

• Political Economy

  Only Outlaws Will Have Guns

• Money & Macro

  Bubbles and Broad Monetary Aggregates: Toward a Consensus Approach to Business Cycles

• Philosophy

  Why I Am Not a Vegetarian: Moral Value Comes from Cooperation, Not Sentience

• Money & Macro

  Against Savings: A Suggested Exposition of the Markets for Money and Credit

• Philosophy

  Political Philosophy Is About Norms, Not Freedom

• Money & Macro

  The Blockchain and Economic Organization

• Political Economy

  A Post-Scarcity Society Would Probably Be Dystopian

• Philosophy

  What Bioethicists Can Learn from Calvinism

• Miscellaneous

  Wordle Redux

• Political Economy

  The State’s Double Standard

• Philosophy

  Why Do New Atheists Hate Group Selection?

• Political Economy

  On “Feels-Based” Policy

• Money & Macro

  Money and its Institutional Substitutes: The Role of Exchange Institutions in Human Cooperation

• 2016
• Culture & Current Events

  Why I Don’t Worry about Nuclear War

• Political Economy

  Christianity, Cooperation, and State Formation

• Political Economy

  Why Are There Taxes? Or, Taxation Isn't About Revenue

• Culture & Current Events

  Self-Interest is the Basis of Self-Denial: On Cooperative Equilibria and the Capacity for Commitment

• Philosophy

  The Extended Order as Moral First Principle: The Moral Philosophy of The Constitution of Liberty

• Political Economy

  Bootstrapping Social Cooperation

• Money & Macro

  Smart Contracts: Killer Enabler for Stable Value

• Philosophy

  The Meta Level Doesn’t Justify Itself

• Money & Macro

  Monetary Theory as a Prototype for a Theory of Civilization

• Miscellaneous

  In Defense of Being a Specialist

• Political Economy

  Liberty As Legitimacy

• Political Economy

  Evonomics – How About Evopolitics Too?

• Culture & Current Events

  Nationalism Is Weird

• Political Economy

  Economics Is Not About Policy

• Miscellaneous

  My Framework

• Culture & Current Events

  Moral Equivalence and Opposing the Government

• 2015
• Money & Macro

  Aggregate Demand Spillovers Aren’t Coherent

• Money & Macro

  Helicopters and the Neutrality of Money

• Culture & Current Events

  The Well-To-Do Minority

• Culture & Current Events

  The Market and the Masses

• Philosophy

  Against Opinion

• Political Economy

  Can Moloch Be Tamed? On the Boundary between Cosmos and Taxis

• Money & Macro

  Cryptocurrency and the Problem of Intermediation

  —External link to www.independent.org »

• Political Economy

  Intellectual Property and Institutional Efficiency: The Limits of the Demsetz Story

• Political Economy

  The Morality of Marginalism: Risk Aversion versus Aspirational Norms

• Political Economy

  What Makes Economics a Human Science?

• 2014
• Political Economy

  The Curious Contours of Contractual Freedom: A Cynical Spin on Civil Society

• Political Economy

  You Have No Business Caring about the Supply Chain

• Culture & Current Events

  The Apparatus Cost of Net Neutrality

• Money & Macro

  More Rents, Less Growth

• Money & Macro

  The Significance of Profit: A Failure of Equilibrium, or a Success of Coordination?

• Political Economy

  The Marketing State and the Dynamics of Erithocracy

• Political Economy

  A Note on the Microeconomics of Time Preference

• Miscellaneous

  Evolution of a Logo

• Money & Macro

  Nozick and Fractional Reserve Banking

• Culture & Current Events

  Sympathize With The Villain

• Philosophy

  Natural Law’s Burden of Proof

• Money & Macro

  The Unit of Account Is Special; The Medium Of Exchange Is Not

• 2013
• Political Economy

  Apparatus Cost

• Political Economy

  A Theory of Bargaining Power

• Philosophy

  Public Reason Liberalism and Kuyperian Epistemology

• Philosophy

  Deep Beauty: An Epistemological Journey to the Center of the Universe

• Culture & Current Events

  Shame Is Good

• Money & Macro

  Confidence in the Pyramid: Speculation, Calculation, and Stabilization in Hayek’s Monetary Dilemma

• Culture & Current Events

  That the Writings of the Founding Fathers Refer to the Rule of Obama

• Philosophy

  Supralapsarianism is the Only Plausible Theism

• Philosophy

  Virtue and the Knowledge Problem

• Miscellaneous

  Wordle

• 2012
• Political Economy

  Coercion and Bargaining Power

• Philosophy

  Atheism and Reward Morality

• Culture & Current Events

  The Political Philosophy of Star Trek: Individualism, Not Socialism

• Money & Macro

  Hayek vs. Rothbard on Free-Market Money

• Culture & Current Events

  Resumption of Indulgences Triggers Fears of Grace Inflation

• Culture & Current Events

  “Conservative” and “Liberal” are Heuristics, Not Ideologies

• Culture & Current Events

  Copyright Breeds Monolithic Culture

• Political Economy

  The Invisible Hook of the Market: Why Piracy is Good for the Economy

• Political Economy

  Right and Duty

• Miscellaneous

  The Future of English