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Open ScienceEconomics TextbooksGoogle NgramsIdeologyRelative Word FrequencyWirtschaftswissenschaftenEnglisch
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Autor Blair Fix

I built a bot that counts word frequency. Here’s what it says about the language in economics textbooks.

Bullshit JobsHierarchyInequalityChristophe PetitDavid GraeberWirtschaftswissenschaftenEnglisch
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In this guest post, economist Christophe Petit pays tribute to his friend and mentor David Graeber.

HierarchyInequalityPower LawsCEO PayHerbert SimonWirtschaftswissenschaftenEnglisch
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In 1957, Herbert Simon proposed that CEO pay had a simple explanation: it stemmed largely from rank in a hierarchy. His model was largely forgotton. Here’s a second look.