January 5, 2021
Welcome to Marginalia—my blog!
Are blogs dead in 2021? I don’t know and I don’t really care.
Marginalia will serve as a thought journal. If others find those thoughts useful, consider it a positive externality.
On my blog, you’ll mostly find writing about the following subjects:
- Austrian economics. But as Pete Boettke might say, the emphasis will be on Austrian ECONOMICS—not AUSTRIAN economics.
- Institutional economics. Papers like this one by Greif and Kingston have shaped my thinking. So have this one, this one, this one, and this one. To my mind, the focus on institutions, during the mostly institutionally antiseptic 20th century, is one of the defining features of the Austrian School.
- Economic fallacies / basic economics. For 99.99% of economists, the greatest impact they’ll have on the world is through communicating the basic principles of the discipline to their students and the general public. My experience talking with students suggests many of these posts will have a public policy angle—a course I also teach at Grove City College.
- Economic pedagogy. See above.
These are my thoughts on the side—or, if you like—on the margin.