List: Economic Incantations | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Jan 7, 2025
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Economic Incantations
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DataDrivenInvestor
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Benjamin Cain
Technological Utopia and the Roots of InequalityWhat happened to the socialist promise of technology?
Feb 14, 2020
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Feb 14, 2020
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Big Tech Tribalism Crowds Out Science’s Humanist EthosThe irony of capitalism’s neofeudal impact on society
Jul 23, 2024
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Jul 23, 2024
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DataDrivenInvestor
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Benjamin Cain
Capitalism and Fake ModernityThe irony of the conservative economist’s worship of capitalism
Apr 13, 2020
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Apr 13, 2020
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
Why We Protect Society from the Ravages of CapitalismThe sovereignty of money and the call for outgrowing personal greed
Nov 28, 2022
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Nov 28, 2022
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
Why We Can’t Imagine the End of CapitalismThe shifting meaning of “capitalism,” and how societies hide their downside with culture
Feb 16, 2023
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Feb 16, 2023
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Lotus Fruit
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Benjamin Cain
Scientism and the Fraud of Economic IncantationsHow we hand-wave to pretend our choice of values is objective
Feb 20, 2020
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Feb 20, 2020
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The Apeiron Blog
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Benjamin Cain
The Cults of Scientism in Philosophy and EconomicsSecular cults are paradoxical…and just as hard to escape from
Jul 25, 2020
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Jul 25, 2020
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
Is Economics a Pseudoscience?Sorting through the criteria for scientific status, including explanatory modelling, mathematical rigour, and a culture of critical…
Oct 5, 2022
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Oct 5, 2022
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Ploys for Exaggerating the Scientific Status of EconomicsRationality and the neoclassical economist’s magic tricks
Oct 20, 2022
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Oct 20, 2022
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Economics and Physics EnvyMonetary objectification, the bureaucratic mindset, and the economist’s scientistic temptations
Nov 16, 2022
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Nov 16, 2022
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
Economic Canards and the Reality of CapitalismRational self-interest, happiness, and a bogus pedagogical problem
Nov 9, 2022
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Nov 9, 2022
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The Bogus Laws of Orthodox EconomicsNatural functions, economic casuistry, and how sociality emerges from nature
Oct 26, 2022
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Oct 26, 2022
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
Are Monopolies Evil Geniuses or Blundering Fools?The case study of Canada’s telecom sector
Dec 5, 2023
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Dec 5, 2023
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
Britain’s Libertarian Catastrophe and the “Science” of EconomicsWhat’s revealing about economists’ reaction to PM Liz Truss’s spectacular failure in office
Oct 29, 2022
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Oct 29, 2022
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Economic Rationales For A Tyranny of SociopathsA critique of neoclassical economics
Dec 2, 2021
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Dec 2, 2021
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
How Modern Economics Still Serves the PlutocratsRelativism, agnotology, and the scuttling of economics
Dec 15, 2021
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Dec 15, 2021
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Do Economists Presume Everyone’s Selfish?Self-interest, economic rationality, and the questionable merit of capitalism
Jan 10, 2022
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Jan 10, 2022
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
How Neoliberals Exploit Economic Scientism to Justify PlutocracyThe connection between economists’ physics envy and the myth of the free market
Jun 6, 2023
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Jun 6, 2023
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DataDrivenInvestor
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Benjamin Cain
The Gimmick of Game Theory’s Deflation of MoralityWhy morality is more than prudence
Mar 9, 2021
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Mar 9, 2021
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
How the Prisoner of Game Theory Torches Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand”The neoliberal critique of morality, and the arbitrariness of game theory
Jun 15, 2023
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Jun 15, 2023
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