CourteousCapitalist
CourteousCapitalist

CourteousCapitalist

Courteous Capitalist is an academic and journalistic project exploring topics in economics, philosophy, policy, and politics. Founder Seth Carter set out to create a platform that rejects the overwhelmingly hostile and demonizing culture that too often surrounds political and economic conversation online. By committing to a brand of Courteousness, the project seeks to offer an oasis cultivating an open, respectful, mutually beneficial, and intellectually rigorous life of the mind.


A Nobel Prize? Or Wool Over the Eyes?

18 Jun 2021 9 minute read 5 comments Seth Carter

I'm an economist-in-training. More specifically, I'm a PhD researcher and student in economics trying to gain the skills I'll need to become a professional. Most of the time, this process consists of me making numerous and embarrassing mistakes that...