What’s the most pernicious scientific idea ever? I’d give first prize to eugenics and second prize to human capital theory.

This is the first of two essays written for (and supported by) the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on an Equitable and Resilient Society. These essays investigate the role that hierarchy plays in driving inequality and unsustainability. This piece introduces the facts of hierarchy.

In case you missed them, here are the Top 5 posts of the last year.

A hellish year is over and a vaccine is rolling out. Let’s be thankful for science.

I discuss the advantages of writing technical documents in plain text. And I give you resources to learn how to do it.

As we run out of oil, many people believe that its price will skyrocket. But I think the opposite will happen. Oil prices will plummet … yet oil will grow increasingly unaffordable.

Peak oil was all the rage a decade ago. Now nobody’s talking about it. The funny thing is, it’s still happening.

I build an app that lets you explore my econospeak data.

The US election got me thinking about the power of ideology.

I built a bot that counts word frequency. Here’s what it says about the language in economics textbooks.