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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

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2026874 stories
Does Georgism work? Five years later↗ astralcodexten.com · HN · 503 comments · 505 points · Sep 25, 2026
Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down↗ bbc.com · HN · 1697 comments · 726 points · Aug 22, 2026
Ordinary Abundance↗ ordinaryabundance.com · HN · 197 comments · 421 points · Aug 13, 2026
The dead economy theory↗ owenmcgrann.com · HN · 1424 comments · 1359 points · May 29, 2026
The Art of Money Getting↗ kk.org · HN · 225 comments · 409 points · May 23, 2026
20251,033 stories
Life, work, death and the peasant: Rent and extraction↗ acoup.blog · HN · 192 comments · 334 points · Sep 13, 2025
Why does the U.S. always run a trade deficit?↗ libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org · HN · 778 comments · 325 points · May 20, 2025
Business books are entertainment, not strategic tools↗ theorthagonist.substack.com · HN · 255 comments · 593 points · May 09, 2025
Executive wealth as a factor in return-to-office↗ twitter.com · HN · 490 comments · 622 points · Mar 02, 2025
The Anthropic Economic Index↗ anthropic.com · HN · 225 comments · 582 points · Feb 10, 2025
2024972 stories
The economics of the Birkin handbag↗ wsj.com · HN · 351 comments · 190 points · Jun 23, 2024
Economic Termites: Monopolies not noticeable enough for most of us↗ thebignewsletter.com · HN · 436 comments · 455 points · Jun 09, 2024
The Moral Economy of the Shire↗ nathangoldwag.wordpress.com · HN · 273 comments · 264 points · Jun 03, 2024
Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)↗ fraser.stlouisfed.org · HN · 267 comments · 261 points · May 21, 2024
A Lego model of financial capitalism↗ asomo.co · HN · 84 comments · 196 points · Apr 05, 2024
2023949 stories
The Limits to Growth (1972)↗ donellameadows.org · HN · 123 comments · 116 points · Dec 24, 2023
Pooling and Sharing of wealth make everyone's wealth grow faster↗ ergodicityeconomics.com · HN · 7 comments · 44 points · Sep 02, 2023
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber (2018)↗ theanarchistlibrary.org · HN · 35 comments · 55 points · Jun 17, 2023
How America Manufactures Poverty↗ newyorker.com · HN · 8 comments · 40 points · Mar 19, 2023
The Spaceballs Argument for Unconditional Basic Income↗ scottsantens.com · HN · 77 comments · 60 points · Jan 11, 2023
20221,011 stories
Gross domestic product is a misleading measure of national success (2014)↗ nature.com · HN · 350 comments · 382 points · Oct 31, 2022
We should measure well-being instead of failing to measure economic productivity↗ bengoertzel.substack.com · HN · 200 comments · 321 points · Oct 10, 2022
Why no Roman industrial revolution?↗ acoup.blog · HN · 516 comments · 509 points · Aug 26, 2022
The diminishing returns of productivity culture (2021)↗ annehelen.substack.com · HN · 177 comments · 323 points · May 06, 2022
Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work↗ universiteitleiden.nl · HN · 760 comments · 404 points · Jan 17, 2022
20211,073 stories
A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms (2009)↗ blog.rongarret.info · HN · 164 comments · 303 points · Oct 06, 2021
What is ‘elite overproduction’?↗ overcomingbias.com · HN · 351 comments · 288 points · Aug 19, 2021
Why we should end the data economy↗ thereboot.com · HN · 385 comments · 519 points · Jun 04, 2021
Why do we buy into the 'cult' of overwork?↗ bbc.com · HN · 413 comments · 343 points · May 09, 2021
Efficiency Is the Enemy↗ fs.blog · HN · 322 comments · 584 points · May 04, 2021
20201,268 stories
Thomas Sowell interview↗ city-journal.org · HN · 424 comments · 575 points · Aug 03, 2020
Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0↗ timjrobinson.com · HN · 1979 comments · 1105 points · Jul 30, 2020
Declining worker power vs. rising monopoly power: explaining recent macro trends↗ voxeu.org · HN · 454 comments · 409 points · Jun 03, 2020
Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think↗ secondbreakfast.co · HN · 422 comments · 1035 points · May 13, 2020
Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 204 comments · 527 points · Mar 14, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Does Georgism work? Five years later↗ astralcodexten.com · HN · 503 comments · 505 points · Sep 25, 2026
The Hierarchy of Money↗ gregorygundersen.com · HN · 102 comments · 186 points · Sep 20, 2026
What will our economic future look like?↗ anthropic.com · HN · 456 comments · 242 points · Sep 09, 2026
Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down↗ bbc.com · HN · 1697 comments · 726 points · Aug 22, 2026
European industry is doing better than you may think↗ economist.com · HN · 14 comments · 47 points · Sep 27, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

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Highest rated · the last 30 days

Does Georgism work? Five years later↗ astralcodexten.com · HN · 503 comments · 505 points · Sep 25, 2026
What will our economic future look like?↗ anthropic.com · HN · 456 comments · 242 points · Sep 09, 2026
The Hierarchy of Money↗ gregorygundersen.com · HN · 102 comments · 186 points · Sep 20, 2026
Working on Economics with Fable 5↗ wilsoniumite.com · HN · 90 comments · 74 points · Sep 07, 2026
We know what a world without work looks like↗ asteriskmag.substack.com · HN · 26 comments · 51 points · Sep 16, 2026
European industry is doing better than you may think↗ economist.com · HN · 14 comments · 47 points · Sep 27, 2026
I'm not an economist, but here's an argument I've been thinking about↗ twitter.com · HN · 0 comments · 14 points · Sep 09, 2026
She Popularized Economics. Then She Was Erased from History. Why?↗ nytimes.com · HN · 1 comments · 13 points · Aug 30, 2026
Does Georgism Work? Five Years Later↗ astralcodexten.com · HN · 0 comments · 9 points · Sep 26, 2026
Goldman says the economy is rewarding capital ownership over labor↗ fortune.com · HN · 2 comments · 8 points · Sep 17, 2026

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