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Erwin Dekker

@erwindekker.bsky.social
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Historian of economics, culture and econ, author of 'Realizing the Values of Art' the biography of 'Jan Tinbergen and the Rise of Economic Expertise' and 'Viennese Students of Civilization'.

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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
New open-access article out in JHET: "The socialist visions of John Stuart Mill and Leon Walras: Expanding forms of socialized property within a market economy" by John Willoughby.
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THE SOCIALIST VISIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL AND LÉON WALRAS: EXPANDING FORMS OF SOCIALIZED PROPERTY WITHIN A MARKET ECONOMY | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core
THE SOCIALIST VISIONS OF JOHN STUART MILL AND LÉON WALRAS: EXPANDING FORMS OF SOCIALIZED PROPERTY WITHIN A MARKET ECONOMY
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This distinction is quite relevant in relation to both 19th century utopian proposals as well as to 20th century proposals for planning, because they often rely on an analogy between firm and society. Which Marx appears to deny here. Love to hear more on the barometer!
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Free link to my new paper on rationality in the work of Ludwig Mises w/ Andre Quintas. We argue that Mises' early work was Weberian in its understanding of rationality, history, and human action, it was only later (early 1930s) that Mises adopted his notorious praxeological view of rational action.
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The evolving concept of rationality in the work of Ludwig von Mises
Mises is best known for his development of praxeology and his axiomatic approach to rationality. This article shows that his early work is characterised by a more historical and institutional accou...
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 18/05/2026
Launching today: The Inner Life of Liberalism, a new podcast from me and @uncanonical.net. The thesis: liberalism doesn't just need better arguments. It needs better practices, the kind that reshape what you notice, feel, and become. Episode 1 is live. 🧵 on the project.
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001: Liberalism's Inner Life | The Inner Life of Liberalism
001: Liberalism's Inner Life by The Inner Life of Liberalism on Patreon. Join The Inner Life of Liberalism's community for exclusive content and updates.
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Nicolas Brisset @nbrisset.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The program for the 1st joint conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and the History of Economics Society is now online. I wouldn’t say putting it together was a walk in the park... From May 26 to 29, more than 400 researchers. eshet-conference.net/joint-eshet-...
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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Starting today, my book Moral Economics is actually available in stores:) marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/05/feli...
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Felix Salmon, at Bloomberg, reviews Moral Economics
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
hey look, another day, another reason to read about reciprocity and the need to actually *enforce* norms. www.liberalism.org/p/liberal-ne...
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Liberal Neutrality and How to Fight For It
Defending liberal political norms doesn’t mean always reaching across the aisle. Sometimes, liberal neutrality means playing hardball.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity. More information here bwmpe.eu If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!
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Home - The Bucharest Workshop in Mainline Political Economy
Welcome to your site! This is your homepage, which is what most visitors will see when they come to your site for the first time.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
My friend David Diaconu is organizing a great workshop in Bucharest in on 8-10 June on Decentralization, Self-Governance and Polycentricity. More information here bwmpe.eu If you would like to attend or present do get in touch with him, there is still space!
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Home - The Bucharest Workshop in Mainline Political Economy
Welcome to your site! This is your homepage, which is what most visitors will see when they come to your site for the first time.
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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Our Writing Workshop is starting up again, and soon. Sign up before March 13, and get started by March 17. Hosted by Harro Maas and Paul Dudenhefer you get mentorship from a leading researcher and editor in the field of the history of economic thought, all for free. So do sign up!
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JHET Online Writing Workshop: First Meeting, 7th Series
The first meeting of the 7th edition of the JHET Online Writing Workshops will take place on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, from 10AM to 11AM EDT (UTC-4; New York). Its topic is "The World of Scholarly Publ...
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Nicolas Brisset @nbrisset.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/18... I love writing book reviews. They’re still a place where you can debate ideas, something that’s becoming a bit rarer in academia. OEconomia is especially great for this.The editors give us plenty of room to engage fully with the books we review.
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Editing Book Reviews in the History of Economics. An Interview with...
Julien Gradoz: The idea for this interview arose when I realized there’s virtually no research specifically dedicated to book reviews in the history of economics—or even in economics more broadly. ...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A good day for #nokings
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production. We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work! doi.org/10.1007/s108...
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A theory of co-production as joint household production with illustrations from the arts - Journal of Cultural Economics
Co-production is prevalent in the arts but current usage of the term is loose and insufficiently grounded in economic theory. We propose a baseline theory of non-contractual co-production between prod...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Our illustrations all come from the (performing) arts, we inquire for instance why crowd co-production might or might not work, and how credible commitments like 'the encore' can contribute to audience co-production.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Very proud of this (open-access) paper with Valeria Morea in which we develop a theory of co-production, grounded in economic theory, particularly household production. We sift through the many definitions, and specify precisely when co-production is likely to work! doi.org/10.1007/s108...
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A theory of co-production as joint household production with illustrations from the arts - Journal of Cultural Economics
Co-production is prevalent in the arts but current usage of the term is loose and insufficiently grounded in economic theory. We propose a baseline theory of non-contractual co-production between prod...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...
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William I. "Controversy" Thomas
Women’s rights, academic freedom, and a career cut short
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago explores academic freedom ca. 1915 through William Thomas defense of his lecture on women's rights seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/william-i-...
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William I. "Controversy" Thomas
Women’s rights, academic freedom, and a career cut short
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 16/01/2026
Neon Liberalism #60: Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is working with his neighborhood rapid reaction group in Minneapolis, and he recounts witnessing ICE abductions and confronting ICE agents.
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Neon Liberalism #60: Minneapolis Under Siege
Samantha and guest Will Stancil talk the murder of Renée Good and the Trump administration's larger assault on Minneapolis. Will is on the front lines of monitoring ICE in Minneapolis, working with hi...
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Simon Tillotson @simontillotson.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We’re back today, with JS Mill (and as we’ll hear Harriet Taylor Mill) on the case for personal liberty and the limits of state interference. The presenter is Misha Glenny www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, On Liberty
John Stuart Mill's argument for the limits of power that society has over the individual.
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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Our December issue is out, with five article, four book reviews, and two letters to the editor. This is the last issue edited by Pedro Duarte and Jiména Hurtado. As incoming editors, we would like to take the opportunity to express a great thanks for the excellent job they have done!
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Latest issue | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core
Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com · 15/12/2025
➡️ Œconomia 15(3) — Accounting for Quality in Economics Edited by C. Bessy, @erwindekker.bsky.social & @juliengradoz.bsky.social 🔗 journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19... Comes also with a dozen of book reviews on hedge funds, econ expertise in Soviet Union, Solow's model, or digital capitalism.
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15-3 | 2025 Accounting for Quality in Economics
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 13/12/2025
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
This week's post returns to Friedman's Methodology of Positive Economics, to uncover some Knightian themes seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...
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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
New open-access article at JHET by Miriam Bankovsky, Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, and Marianne Johnson, which discusses family economics and poverty around the turn of the 20th century: doi.org/10.1017/S105...
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FAMILY PLANNING AND POVERTY: BIRTH CONTROL, CONTRACEPTION, SEX EDUCATION, AND POVERTY IN MARSHALL, PARETO, AND WICKSELL | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core
FAMILY PLANNING AND POVERTY: BIRTH CONTROL, CONTRACEPTION, SEX EDUCATION, AND POVERTY IN MARSHALL, PARETO, AND WICKSELL
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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
New book review out at JHET, Minghui Hu reviews Amelung and Schefold's edited volume comparing European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: doi.org/10.1017/S105...
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Iwo Amelung and Bertram Schefold, eds., European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, ...
Iwo Amelung and Bertram Schefold, eds., European and Chinese Histories of Economic Thought: Theories and Images of Good Governance, Routledge Studies in the History of Economics (Abingdon: Routledge, ...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school. And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/11/2025
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies" Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).
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Economics and gardening metaphors
On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).
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Economics and gardening metaphors
On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek
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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
New article at JHET: doi.org/10.1017/S105... On Heinrich Dietzel's attempt to reconcile the different camps in the German Methodenstreit of the late 19th century.
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NON NOVA, NOVITER? HEINRICH DIETZEL AND THE LAST SIGH OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN GERMANY | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core
NON NOVA, NOVITER? HEINRICH DIETZEL AND THE LAST SIGH OF CLASSICAL POLITICAL ECONOMY IN GERMANY
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
This week's post at Seeing Like Chicago is about Saul Alinsky, the famous community organizer and author of Rules for Radicals. To my surprise, he studied crime, hanging out with Al Capone's gang, while studying sociology around 1930. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/saul-alins...
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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Antoine Missemer and two guest editors Béatrice Cointe and Christophe Cassen are launching a call for papers for a special issue of Œconomia on the history of climate economics. journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19...
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History of Climate Economics
Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...
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jhetjournal.bsky.social @jhetjournal.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
New JHET article out, open access.
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ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE AS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: ANDERS CHYDENIUS ON THE GOALS OF MONETARY POLICY IN SWEDEN IN THE 1760S | Journal of the History of Economic Thought | Cambridge Core
ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE AS PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE: ANDERS CHYDENIUS ON THE GOALS OF MONETARY POLICY IN SWEDEN IN THE 1760S
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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
"If courts endorse the broad definition of 'invasion' advocated by the admin, dire consequences will follow.... the federal government could suspend the writ of habeas corpus and detain people (including U.S. citizens) at will." -- @ilyasomin.bsky.social on Cato's amicus brief in AEA case @cato.org
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Our Amicus Brief in W.M.M. v. Trump - En Banc Fifth Circuit Alien Enemies Act Case
I coauthored the brief on behalf of the the Cato Institute, the Brennan Center for Justice, legal scholars Geoffrey Corn and John Dehn, and myself.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
1) 'Why I Resigned' from UVa Prez 100% worth reading www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... 2) Events were forced by NYT story w leaked info that he was under pressure to resign. UVa prez has 'no idea' where leaks came from (See below.) 3) FWIW same NYT team did leaked "Harvard will cave" stories
Story says:
Headline "The Final Day"
Then:
The Final Day

Rachel went to meet with the DOJ lawyers the next day—Thursday, June 26th. That morning, an article came out in the NY Times describing how DOJ lawyers were pressuring me to resign. I still have no
idea who leaked the story. 

At around 1pm on Thursday, I was called by Rachel and the two outside
lawyers, Jack and Farnaz, who attended the meeting with Rachel. I was told that the DOJ lawyers were very upset with the leaked story in the Times and that the only offer on the table was that I needed to
resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA. 

I also needed my resignation to be effective prior to the students returning. If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would
extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate.

I was then told that the DOJ had offered an amazing deal—unlike any the lawyers had ever seen, in their words. They were basically willing to grant UVA blanket immunity—all of the inquires and investigations would be suspended, no financial penalties would be imposed, and agencies would be told not to cut off our research funding. They said they had never seen or heard about such a great deal for any university. 

Rachel praised the lawyers for their astute and savvy bargaining, and I was told this was an amazing deal.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
This week's post 'Hotel Life' is actually coming from Chicago, where I am doing archival work. It reflects, from my own long-stay hotel-room, on the 1920s fear that the rich and upper middle-class would give up their homes to live in hotels. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/hotel-life
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David J. Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I just received a document from DHS showing that it has a detained population of 65,000, a staggering total, nearing half the total prison population detained by the Bureau of Prisons. The project is to jam them in horrible conditions until they give up their rights to stay
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!! open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The perfect symbol of a rigged economy
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A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
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The perfect symbol of a rigged economy
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A Two-Headed Coin That Always Comes Up ‘Trump’
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
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The Age of Reform (1)
Reading Hofdstadter's classic from Bryan to FDR
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This week's Seeing like Chicago post revisits Hofstadter's Age of Reform, and its analysis of agrarian populism ca. 1890 and the coalition it formed with the Progressives in the next decade. seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
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The Age of Reform (1)
Reading Hofdstadter's classic from Bryan to FDR
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I said abolish and I fucking meant it @astridoverthere.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
New paper alert Toward an Austrian Theory of the Self in The Review of Austrian Economics. It's Open Access! In the paper I explore connect the Austrian theory of subjectivism to the philosophical sociology of George Herbert Mead and argue that we to explain, not assume, individual heterogeneity
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Toward an Austrian theory of the self - The Review of Austrian Economics
One of the key distinguishing features of Austrian economics is subjectivism. Subjectivism has been understood as the foundation for why individuals are different from each other, and as a basis for i...
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Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
"The alternative is to start with Hayek’s idea that the theory of the individual should be a theory of the individual in society. This theory should explain how society generates individual heterogeneity and enables individual subjectivity."
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