Governments are different than firms, right? Maybe not. When it comes to size, governments behave like they’re just another firm.

When it comes to income, economists ask the wrong question. So they get the wrong answer.

It’s a perennial problem in science. How do you know when someone’s a crank?

I use the Ontario Sunshine List to shed light on how income grows with hierarchical rank.

The ‘productivity-pay gap’ has nothing to do with productivity. Here’s why.

What’s your ‘productivity’ when you use a bullshit job as a front to do something creative?

Income in the US military follows the power ethos — to each according to their social influence.

In the US military, returns to education are mediated almost completely by hierarchical rank.

For all that it purports to say, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fails to explain anything relevant about the world.

Economists purge the social environment from their theory of human behavior. Here’s why this is a mistake.

I’ve been asked to create panels for the upcoming International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0. The conference aims to bring natural and social sciences closer. It will take place at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA from June 22-24, 2020. I’m calling the panel(s) Energy, Institutions and Society . I’m looking for research that connects energy to the structure of human society.