Working on an update where we look at Karl Marx's citation patterns after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 in multiple language groups. Our original paper focused on English. Here are the results, updated with the new 2024 Google Books corpus.

New project - I'm experimenting with using AI to sort through all of Karl Marx's letters to find every time he asked Engels to send him money. This is just 4 years of results. Turns out Marx asked Engels for money A LOT.

The ranks of academia are also filled with people who: - Think of themselves as high status despite having mediocre CVs etc. and below-average scholarly output - Cosplay as exploited proletariats despite being from upper middle class backgrounds and earning well above the median salary in their city - Imagine themselves as important experts despite a research output consisting exclusively of ideological frippery that nobody ever reads - Believe they earned their faculty position on merit, when it was really a combo of ideology and a nepotistic phone call from their grad adviser - Think of themselves as overworked even though they put in about 30 hrs a week during the semester with long summer and winter breaks in between

When Peter Navarro makes a crackpot claim that 100% of tariff incidence is paid by foreign countries, the econ profession rightfully mocks him. When Gabriel Zucman makes a crackpot claim that 100% of corporate tax incidence is paid by shareholders, he gets the Clark medal.

Oh my. Schroedinger's Marxist Geographer (i.e. he simultaneously is and is not a Marxist Geographer depending on the political need of the moment) is still going... x.com/TherynDArnold/status/2…

Hi Larissa! I noticed that your CV still claims a scholarly "publication" from 2016 that does not actually exist. You know that it's considered unethical to misrepresent research on your resume, don't you?

"Degrowth Economics" is the new MMT. I suspect it also shares a near-circular Venn Diagram with MMT.

Didn't you lay off your entire socialist magazine's staff when they tried to unionize?

I prefer to live in a world where Elno can become a trillionaire than a world where Thomas Piketty can make everyone poor. My enemy isn't the world's financial elite, it's the cultural elite.

And another thing that’s related… Wealth / income is stupid for another reason and it’s under-appreciated and under-discussed. The super rich are not about to consume (e.g., buy 14% of everything) more than a tiny fraction of their wealth. Consumption inequality is way lower than income or wealth inequality (another way of saying the rich save/invest more). What a rational re-distributionist wants to re-distribute is consumption because they care about the poor and middle class living better. That’s actually harder to do than you think. When you move some wealth from the super-rich to others, and the super-rich don’t change their consumption, because barring gigantic confiscation (don’t give comrade Zuc any ideas) they don’t have to, you don’t just magically get more goods for the whole world to consume. On the other hand, because their MPC is higher, it is far easier to redistribute from say the middle class to the poor (you cut their wealth and they will consume less), which is essentially one big reason why Europe is more regressive than the USA. This is not a nefarious plot it’s just “maths.” Unless you think all “maths” are a nefarious plot. Oh, I stipulated a “rational re-distributionist” above. What is an irrational re-distributionist? Funny you should ask. It’s one actually not trying to make the poor (and maybe the middle-class) better off, but one just filled with hate who just wants to hurt the rich. Guess which one the French Socialists and their Stiglitz back-up singer are?

Which religious cult leader had the worst followers?

I plan to use Hayekian and Misesian insights to arrive at a conclusion that the free market outperforms socialism on almost every margin but HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A FREE-MARKET ECONOMIST!

This is akin to declaring that L. Ron Hubbard provides one one of the most compelling, powerful and deep frameworks for analysis of the universe, all the while ignoring that framework's track record as a predictive science.