My post popular articles? They’re on fashion. Yep. My next most popular articles

My post popular articles? They’re on fashion. Yep. My next most popular articles? On relationships and sex. Of course. Next most popular articles? On business. Yep.

Why do I bother writing about Political Economy and Economic Philosophy?

I studied fine art. I studied art history. I can render, I can sculpt, I can design architecture. I can write hella-good art criticism. (It’s almost impossible to study fine art any longer in the west.)

I also studied painting. But I can’t paint. I’ll never be able to paint. Ever. I just don’t have the color sense. But I studied painting anyway, despite the fact that I’m terrible at it.

I choose political economy to write about (what institutions, both formal and informal allow people to cooperate in large numbers to produce prosperity – or not produce it. I choose economic philosophy to write about (what’s possible to accomplish with numbers, and what’s not). I choose political philosophy to write about (how people make decisions as groups, and what decisions they will make.) I choose Cultural Economics to write about (how different informal cultural value judgements have vast consequences.)

I write about what people don’t care about. It’s a sickness. It must be. 🙂

Masochism. 🙂