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What if the Government is Just Another Firm? (Part 1)

Posted On September 17, 2020September 24, 2021 By Blair Fix

Originally published on Economics from the Top Down Blair Fix Originally published on Economics from the Top Down. I have a confession. I’m a political economist by trade, but I spend most of my time reading outside my discipline. I read about physics, cosmology, biology … the list goes on. Basically, if it’s not political […]

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Energy and the Size Distribution of Firms

Posted On October 20, 2019September 23, 2021 By Blair Fix

Originally published on Economics from the Top Down Blair Fix In this post, I’m going to return to the relation between energy and institution size. When we left off last time (in Groping in the Dark), I had described my struggle to understand how the size of firms and governments changes with energy use. It […]