Archive - Nik’s Substack

The Comedy of the Commons

A lesson for the world from the goatherds of Herakleia

Jun 17 •

Ricardian Vice, Ricardian Virtue

Some thoughts on an old controversy

Jun 2 •

May 2025

Reluctantly contra Traylen

A defence of the short story which, in general, I also hate

May 20 •

The LSE Critique

Lachmann and Popper on Prediction and Knowledge in Social Systems

May 12 •

April 2025

March 2025

Four Critics of Mill I: Whewell and the Induction Controversy

Part one of a four part series

Mar 27 •

The Desirability of Formalisation in Economics

On the prospects for economics in the Archimedean-Ptolemaic mode

Mar 17 •

Two Letters from Keynes to Roy Harrod

Dated 4 July and 16 July 1938

Mar 11 •

Economics and Wittgenstein's Ladder

Keynes on economics, art and the state

Mar 10 •

February 2025

Luzin, Florensky and the Trials of Materialism

A story from the dark night of Soviet religious suppression

Feb 28 •

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