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Alex Williams
Personal blog · vebaccount.substack.comeconomicsphilosophy
Alex Williams writes Continuous Variation, a personal blog at vebaccount.substack.com about economics and philosophy. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Post-Keynesian Worldview in Five Principles”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Substack for economics writing through a heterodox lens. It is also cited for a post on technological revolutions and for a point about Krugman.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Continuous Variation is a journal of the current past.
Most-linked posts?
- The Post-Keynesian Worldview in Five Principles3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-09
What Hacker News says?
https://macwright.com/ - my favorite blog about software-related topics https://vebaccount.substack.com/ - great stuff on economics through a heterodox lens
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?”Submitted The Post-Keynesian Worldview in Five Principles as a story · 3 points
HN discussionKrugman is the best-sounding stuff of the mainstream. Since that what you brought up, I would start with https://www.crisesnotes.com/paul-krugman-functional-finance-... . Arguable Krugman is so good about not saying terrible stupid shit, that it might come at at cost of not being internally consistent or acknowledging when his views in fact change. Krugman at least was a "New Keynsian", which is a very complicated c…
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on “Does QE Cause Wealth Inequality?”- nz · 2021-11-03
Submitted The Post-Keynesian Worldview in Five Principles as a story · 2 points
HN discussion :) nice to read all that > If people really insisted on working full time 40 hours per week then they would have to spend that time building long lasting projects. Climate change comes to mind. CO2 reductions are basically permanent. Given enough reductions we will never hit 1.5C° of warming. In some sense, because the problems are so abstract, it's good to think about extrinsic vs intrinsic rewards. I cannot empath…
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on “The Death and Birth of Technological Revolutions”Submitted Inflation: Cost of Living as Epistemic Practice as a story · 2 points
HN discussion