Here’s the manuscript for a new piece in The Mint Magazine about the language of economics.

The talk version of my recent paper on degrowth.

This is the second in a series 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. Summary Humanity’s most pressing need is to learn how to live within our planet’s boundaries — something that likely means doing without economic growth.

A talk given to the SEEFAR center about the problems with human capital theory.

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.

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

The effects of class struggle, it seems, are written in the most unlikely of places: the stock market .

In this guest post, economist Christophe Petit pays tribute to his friend and mentor David Graeber.

In 1957, Herbert Simon proposed that CEO pay had a simple explanation: it stemmed largely from rank in a hierarchy. His model was largely forgotton. Here’s a second look.