Economic Principals and Some Pop Culture—David Warsh

March 29, 2007 1:15 AM

Each week, David Warsh publishes a new essay about the principals of economics. Previous topics have included rock 'n' roll economics, print journalism, and game theory. He sets his task and carries it out, and he's been at it for more than five years now.
posted by cgc373 (9 comments total)

Interesting Javascript on that site, too, cgc373. The link thumbnails remind me of an old demo of Xanadu I once saw. And the content is sometimes thought provoking, if controversial. Good post.
posted by paulsc at 2:18 AM on March 29, 2007

Spelling "principles" wrong makes baby Jesus cry.
posted by commander_cool at 5:09 AM on March 29, 2007 [1 favorite]

I enjoyed reading those, thanks!
posted by amyms at 7:28 AM on March 29, 2007

If you read through the posts...which contain some interesting observations but can be a little dense in the "crammed with big thoughts" meaning of the word...you will find that he is punning with the spelling...spending time discussing both the fundamentals of the discipline and the key players...but I could be wrong and baby jesus might actually be bawling his eyes out.
posted by cyclopz at 7:32 AM on March 29, 2007

From the About section:

Where did EP come from?

Economic Principals appeared for more than 18 years as a column in the Business section of The Boston Globe. It moved to the Web in March 2002. The online project remains much the same as in the newspaper version -- to keep track of what's going on in technical economics through the device of weekly profiles of various movers and shakers (hence the pun) and occasional commentary on political economy. A more complete account of its evolution appeared in December 2004 as A Report to Readers.
posted by cgc373 at 7:33 AM on March 29, 2007

His discussion of Rock & Roll seems to have little to do with actual economics.

At least Steve Albini does the math.
posted by TheWhiteSkull at 11:48 AM on March 29, 2007

His re-framing of the Beatles as avatars of Feministic empowerment truly made my day.
He just---nailed it.
What a lovely mind!
Long Live the Enlightened Essay!
(Not snarky-- i mean it.)
posted by Dizzy at 4:06 PM on March 29, 2007

seriously though, is this some kind of play on words that I'm just not getting?

an economic principal would be Ben Bernanke.

an economic principle would be the law of supply and demand.

someone please tell me I'm wrong on this one. I like this guy's column and don't want to get involved an another grammatical boycott.

The last one I got into almost cost me my marriage.
posted by willie11 at 4:14 PM on March 29, 2007

Cool, I liked the game theory article. I've bookmarked the blog for after April 18th.
posted by BrotherCaine at 4:43 PM on March 29, 2007