I show you my code for making pretty charts in ggplot.

Marx thought that private property was the cause of capitalism’s social ills. But when Marx’s ideas were put in action, they were disastrous. I discuss what went wrong.

Gregory Clark proposes that the differential reproduction of the rich led to the industrial revolution. He’s probably wrong.

The less free market we have, the more we use the phrase ‘free market’. George Orwell would be proud.

An update to “The The Growth of Hierarchy and the Death of the Free Market”. I show you which countries are which.

Contrary to what neoclassical economists claim should happen, economic growth seems to involve less ‘free market’ and more hierarchy.

Welcome to the first post of ‘Economics from the Top Down’. This will be a blog about new ideas in economics and the social sciences. I use the word ‘economics’ in a liberal sense. Few trained economists will recognize what I do as ‘economics’. Perhaps a better word would be ‘political economy’. Or even better, just ‘social science’. But before diving into the content of this blog, I should introduce myself. My name is Blair Fix.