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Stumbling and Mumbling
stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
Chris Dillow writes about economics, politics, and inequality from a left-leaning perspective, covering capitalism, markets, work, and British society.
What HN saysCommenters call Dillow a favorite economics blogger and link his posts on capitalism versus markets, meritocracy, and house prices.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Incentives as ideology2 people · 6 points · first shared 2016 · 2 comments on HN
- 2Talent or Toxicity?2 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 3On Misunderstanding Economics2 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 4The end of competition?2 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 5Basic income vs. Capitalism1 people · 96 points · first shared 2013 · 152 comments on HN
- 6Costs of under-confidence1 people · 92 points · first shared 2015 · 32 comments on HN
- 7On Britain's Intellectual Decline1 people · 69 points · first shared 2018 · 91 comments on HN
- 8Is globalization to blame?1 people · 36 points · first shared 2016 · 42 comments on HN
- 9Marx's important error1 people · 19 points · first shared 2009 · 14 comments on HN
- 10How Inequality Makes Us Poorer1 people · 4 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 11The Costs of Suppression1 people · 3 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Free markets need equality1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
- 13On Job Polarization (professionals gain while other skilled work falls)1 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 14Competition in public services1 people · 3 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 15On not seeing luck1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
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rb808 · 2018-03-19
Chris Dillow is my favorite economics blogger. http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com
One of his quotes from memory is "Meritocracy is the myth that justifies inequality", which explains a lot of the current world.
cmsd2 · 2017-10-13
Chris Dillow is a good read on this topic
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2017/09…
rwmj · 2017-09-09
At a cursory read, this is similar to Demand-Revealing Referenda / Revealed Preferences, I think? http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2007/03… https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/03/27/half-baked-ideas-demand-revealin…
I love that there are so many better ways to vote, and I hate that we still use FPTP.
frgtpsswrdlame · 2017-10-24
For a more skeptical viewpoint: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2017/10…
tomp · 2016-04-27
An important distinction to keep in mind: capitalism != free market.
From the article http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2016/01…
> They are, in fact, two different things: capitalism is a system of ownership; markets a method of exchange. Although the two have sometimes gone together, this need not be so. Crony capitalism in which a few monopolies or cartels run much of the economy gives us capitalism without markets. And market socialism would give us markets without capitalism*.
rjknight · 2014-04-03
This is true. I've always liked the distinction made here: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2007/11… between extremism and fanaticism. Extremists are those with views beyond the mainstream, and fanatics are those with views that, mainstream or otherwise, are so strongly held that they cannot accept disagreement.
edderly · 2011-03-07
Yep, I saw this interestingly articulated here:
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2010/11…
In essence, the power of Facebook to connect you with your personal friends also makes you re-make how you present yourself to the outside world.
You create a "purified identity", maybe as you see it a better, less controversial character for fear of offending, or perhaps more likely to please your 'friends'.
duke_sam · 2011-01-12
There is some[1] evidence to show that higher corporate tax rates result in lower wages so it's at least partially equivalent to a higher income tax rate.
[1] http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2010/04…