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Russ Roberts
Personal blog · russroberts.infoeconomics
Russ Roberts's personal blog at russroberts.info covers economics. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Russ Roberts's essays on markets, wages and price gouging as alternative perspectives on economic debates. One commenter explicitly recommends his essay on the reality of markets.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Russ Roberts is an economist, author, and host of the award-winning podcast EconTalk. Explore 1,000+ episodes, books, essays, and talks.
What Hacker News says?
I appreciate the spirit of this comment too. I do think though that where many well-intentioned people go wrong is that they think wages are just like a dial that "we" (or gov or whomever) can easily turn. I think this essay gets at a lot of these ideas very well: http://russroberts.info/article/the-reality-of-markets/
Comment linking /article/the-reality-of-markets/
on “Federal Reserve chair says decline in workers' share of profits 'very troubling'”Submitted The Human Side of Trade as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere's an alternative perspective: https://russroberts.info/price-gouging/
Comment linking /price-gouging/
on “Economists who defend disaster profiteers are wrong”