Perry Mehrling

@PMehrling · joined 13 Apr 2015

professor of economics, historian of money and finance, proselytizer for the money view, outside spread

18 956Followers

55Following

887Posts total

119KViews on collected posts

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

12.1K13 Nov

12.7K27 Jan

69.9K28 Jan

2.8K

1.2K29 Jan

10.3K9 Mar

Last 8 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.55%13 Nov

0.35%27 Jan

0.76%

0.48%28 Jan

0.29%

0.32%

0.25%29 Jan

0.78%9 Mar

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes53.4%512 in total

Reposts7.1%68 in total

Replies1.8%17 in total

Quotes1.6%15 in total

Bookmarks36.2%347 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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Wonderful engagement. You will not regret the time you spend watching this. Very unusual. 10.3K views · 71 likes · 5 reposts · 3 replies 09 Mar 2026 · Open on X →

@PMehrling @TiltingatM3 Did he make any Excel mistakes this time? 1.2K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 29 Jan 2026 · Open on X →

@PMehrling An excellent article! Thank you very much. I particularly agree with your view of the $ & its network effects ("global means of payment"). However, I would be very interested to hear your perspective on its future, given its weaponisation. Can the $ be weaponised 2.8K views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies 28 Jan 2026 · Open on X →

@PMehrling Does he talk about how his horrendous study on fiscal policy came about? Imo this review is almost too generous given what a clown he is Mehrling mogs him to death but seems too shy to flex on him Rogoff epitome of 0 clue about real world but academiamaxxed with no 1K views · 3 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies 28 Jan 2026 · Open on X →

My review of Rogoff: https://t.co/t6mypqbjjv 69.9K views · 273 likes · 45 reposts · 6 replies 28 Jan 2026 · Open on X →

Excellent introduction, but read the book as I just have. Capitalism as shape-shifting, hierarchical, global from the beginning, heterogenous at every moment and gaining robustness from that heterogeneity, and so on and so forth....Read it. 9K views · 63 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 27 Jan 2026 · Open on X →

New Rhodes Center Podcast is up. Sven Beckert talks his new book - Capitalism: A Global History - with Seth Rockman: https://t.co/wzLwJb9YTk 12.7K views · 35 likes · 6 reposts · 2 replies 27 Jan 2026 · Open on X →

Money and Empire, paperback now out from Cambridge Press. New interview on contents, Library of Mistakes podcast: https://t.co/m8kgBGwXOc 12.1K views · 57 likes · 7 reposts · 3 replies 13 Nov 2025 · Open on X →

Book cover! I like the yin/yang, money/empire. Pre-order: https://t.co/EXHGYIOSH0 https://t.co/52l6rNOIGY 0 views · 959 likes · 131 reposts · 36 replies 04 Jun 2022 · Open on X →

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