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2021-05-18 18:20
DeLongTODAY: China Stands Up: 1978-2020: Part III
http://delongtoday.com https://youtu.be/DXNCE__FjXk https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0FewWYNr-v0NT4Mlf-iw7Sa0w https://github.com/braddelon… Read More
2021-05-17 00:10
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00
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Key Insights:
Economic arguments against higher taxes that may have been somewhat plausible back… Read More
2021-05-17 00:01
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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An all-in commitment to weblogging has been extraordinarily successful for Cory Doctorow. But for most of us the connections… Read More
2021-05-16 23:58
An 11 minute IN FOCUS interview for tbs eFM in Korea...
Brad DeLong: INTERVIEW: Inflation Concerns in the US Following Secretary Treasury Janet: ‘Apple Podcasts: tbs eFM… Read More
2021-05-16 23:56
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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The world would have been much better advised fifteen months ago to, rather than listening to the infectious-disease co… Read More
2021-05-16 23:54
I always wish I had done something more with this...
Richard Evans (2000), Lying About Hitler: History, the Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial (New York: Basic Books:… Read More
2021-05-16 23:49
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Here we see a striking difference between Paul Krugman and Larry Summers. Krugman sees models as intuition pumps—and bel… Read More
2021-05-16 23:49
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Here we see a striking difference between Paul Krugman and Larry Summers. Krugman sees models as intuition pumps—and bel… Read More
2021-05-16 23:42
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A Snippet from a Dialogue: Anti-Anti Tory Little Englandism:
Kephalos: I am pretty sure that—within the population of Great Britain—the Tories are a marked minority… Read More
2021-05-16 23:40
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Best-case—i.e., most optimistic scenario for employment—is employment corresponding to a “true” unemp… Read More
2021-05-06 02:39
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember... https://braddelong.substack.com/p/briefly-noted-for-2021-05-05-we>
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Ian Leslie: Biden's Bet: ‘Biden… Read More
2021-05-05 18:41
The fact that core inflation is rising on the back of substantial GDP growth and declining unemployment should not come as a surprise. Those who are wringing their hands about economic "over… Read More
2021-05-05 18:31
With Cory Doctorow; Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 https://braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexapodia-xiii-mandated-interoperability>
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2021-05-05 18:27
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Zeynep Tufekci: Sunday Open Thread for Subscribers: ‘The one big part of the tragedy here is that we… Read More
2021-05-05 18:26
This, I thought, was an interview that turned out very well...
The Best Books on the Classical Economists
recommended by Brad DeLong
They were an eclectic bunch, including, among others, a… Read More
2021-05-05 18:21
My testimony before Sen. Sherrod Brown's subcommittee...
Earlier today Eric Rauchway @rauchway wrote that people should take a look at my 2009-03-31 testimony that Sen Sherrod Brown (D-OH)… Read More
2021-05-05 18:16
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Free speech advocates who care about the functioning of their community have never thought it appropriate for the free-speech… Read More
2021-05-05 18:15
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
John Scalzi: ’I’m a dude with the usual amount of bullshit on his karma; I try to imagine the better version of… Read More
2021-05-05 18:14
By Noah Smith & Brad DeLong: Joan Robinson to Bob Solow: "I would not be unkind if you would not be pig-headed..."
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Getting the rat… Read More
2021-05-05 18:12
MacFarquhar's final prediction turned out to be true: "Communism in China... end[ed] not with a bang but a whimper"
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Roderick MacFarquhar (1992–12–17): &hell…Read More
2021-05-05 18:12
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Robert P Baird: The Invention of Whiteness: The Long History of a Dangerous Idea: ‘By the time The Bell Curve appeared, Du Bois’s assertion that racial cate… Read More
2021-04-30 02:22
LECTURE: Seven Sects of Macroeconomic Error: Wrong Models of the Great Recessionhttps://www.icloud.com/pages/0zwSkfmRDPILOSmiq0_91g5nw>https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/mas… Read More
2021-04-29 16:02
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/07BWpG9_RQeOtbw70JvbJQ3KQ>https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-210a-background-2021-05-05.pptx> https://www.bradford-delong.com/2… Read More
2021-04-23 02:15
PODCAST: Crimson Connections: Shleifer & DeLonghttps://braddelong.substack.com/p/crimson-connections-shleifer-and> 2021-04-22 Th
READING: John Stuart Mill: Of the Stationary Statehttp… Read More
2021-04-19 14:44
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/07G4SQVjHYedJdHfnFundVJ4w> https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-135-5.%5B6-8%5D.3-lectures-africa-asia-me.pptx> Read More
2021-04-18 17:19
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-04-18 Suhttps://braddelong.substack.com/p/briefly-noted-for-2021-04-18-su> 2021-04-18 Su
READING: Carl von Clausewitz: "On War": Frictionhttps://braddelong.su… Read More
2021-04-11 17:38
East Asian Miracles: Intro Video
Econ 135 :: History of Economic Growth: 5.5.1.
https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-135-5.5.1-intro-video-east-asian-miracles.pp… Read More
2021-04-10 00:18
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0XMVrM2I4wSkvRh1sJyypONhQ
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2021-04-07 23:22
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0_92_e-wt2Y3mXNtUWDE1i_hQ 2021-04-07 Read More
2021-04-05 14:48
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Barry J. Eichengreen & J. Bradford DeLong (2013): Introduction to Kindleberger: The World in Depression https://braddelong.substack.com/p/hoisted-from-the-arch… Read More
2021-04-05 00:47
https://youtu.be/kYmmDsxChJc https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-135-5.4.1-intro%20video.pptx https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0KbognLKGTC2bSdA5_Z0SIJug :: 2020-12-06… Read More
2021-04-01 15:01
What Is the Rate of Ideas Growth? & Why Is It What It Is? :: Background Lecture :: Econ 210a :: Introduction to Economic History :: 2021-04-07
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/08vSAzKv9… Read More
2021-03-25 02:46
Things that went whizzing by I want to remember...
Very Briefly Noted:
Berkeley Economics: Statement from the Faculty and Staff of the Economics Department in Support of our Asian-Am… Read More
2021-03-25 02:42
with Claudia Sahm, Noah Smith, & Brad DeLong
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In the last resort, the the way the government budget constraint balances itself is through the fiscal theory of the… Read More
2021-03-23 18:28
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2021-03-22 18:12
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
Very Briefly Noted:
Brad DeLong (2019): Carville-Hunt “Two Old White Guys” Podcast: I said ‘pass the baton&rs&hell…Read More
2021-03-22 18:11
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
Very Briefly Noted:
Closer to time travel than I thought I would ever get: Ancient Athens 3Dhttps://www.youtube.com/c/AncientAthens3… Read More
2021-03-22 18:10
I would say that Zack has it slightly wrong here. There is not one core reason for passing the baton. There are three reasons: a political reason, a policy-implementation reason, and a we've… Read More
2021-03-22 18:07
I now wish that I had said "possible" rather than "plausible", but alea iacta est...
Benjamin Wallace-Wells: Larry Summers Versus the Biden Administration’s Coronavirus-Stimulus… Read More
2021-03-22 18:06
The original twitter rant. (Note that it is, mostly, advice to the (few) honorable among Republicans. "Passing the Baton" is a preliminary aside...
Brad DeLong (2019–02–25… Read More
2021-03-22 18:04
The European edge in the Imperial-Commercial Age 1500-1770: Priests, merchants, soldiers, sailors, & shipwrights all working together under a king for gold, glory, & God...
David Ab… Read More
2021-03-22 18:02
http://delongtoday.com>https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v1pEjikOuMe31K62EHojlHXi37Hv64iu/view?usp=sharing>https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/delongtoday-2021-03-11… Read More
2021-03-22 18:01
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Figuring out how to do antitrust in the age of the attention economy is really, really hard:
Ben Thompson: The FTC&rsquo&hell…Read More
Sidney Coleman Is My Interpretation-of-Quantum-Mechanics Guru; Plus BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-12-17 We
2021-03-22 18:00
The talk that made me a many-worlds Everettian; plus things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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I have long loved Sidney Coleman’s 1994 Quantum Mechanics in Your F… Read More
2021-03-17 02:45
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For 200 years—from 1800 to 2000—first the Industrial Revolution Age and next the Modern Economic Growth Age rolled forward, bringing previousl… Read More
2021-03-17 02:42
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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I have a difficult time figuring out what to do with the NeverTrumpers. They are, most of the time, talking sense&mda&hell…Read More
2021-03-17 02:41
Not just Mexico but all of Latin America is "so close to the United States..."
The past three months in the United States have been both shocking and hopeful.
They have sen t… Read More
2021-03-16 15:38
https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0m1Ser_mPMUYJ2H2EvS8ydlTw https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/ECON-135-4.%5B3-5%5D.3-zoom-session-slides.pptx
2021-03-16 Tu Read More
2021-03-14 03:26
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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James Robinson is scared at the large-scale soft treason of Republican actual and wannabee office holders, but I do n… Read More
2021-03-14 03:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCgUkfhB8Uk>:
Slides: https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/2017-10-22-inet-edinburgh-ricardos-big-idea.pptx> https://www.icloud.com/… Read More
2021-03-11 22:10
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2021-03-11 00:45
Mike Konczal: Freedom From the Market: America’s FIght to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand https://books.google.com/books?id=0aDLDwAAQBAJ>
Konczal says th… Read More
2021-03-11 00:45
Thinking about what the U.S. economy might look like after May; plus things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Recovering (Economically) from COVID: Scenarios… Read More
2021-03-11 00:45
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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The global container fleet today has a capacity of 32.9 million TEU (Twenty foot-Equivalent Units). The container shi… Read More
2021-03-11 00:44
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Yonatan Zunger: Tolerance Is Not a Moral Precept. The Title of This Essay Should Disturb You: ‘As with any p… Read More
2021-03-11 00:44
The real thing will live at: http://delongtoday.com> :: https://braddelong.substack.com/p/for-paying-subscribers-in-the-year>
Today is an anti-economic history briefing.
Back 90… Read More
2021-03-11 00:40
Selections from my comments at an N2PE panel; plus things that went whizzing by that I want to be sure to try to remember...
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Brad DeLong: Network for a New Political Economy Teachin… Read More
2021-03-09 15:42
https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/hegemony-%26-plutocracy-intro-videos-econ-135.pptx
4.2.1.1. Intro Video: Hegemony, & American Ascendancy
https://www.youtube.co… Read More
2021-03-09 15:11
https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-135-4.3.3-zoom-hegemony-%26-inequality.pptx
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2021-03-03 19:30
AUDIO: https://braddelong.substack.com/p/podcast-hexapodia-iv-checks-for-almost>
The classical British social insurance state took large chunks of human activity out of the marketplace a… Read More
2021-03-03 19:19
Would William Seward have been able to beat Stephen Douglass for the North's electoral votes in 1860 had Lincoln not wowed Republicans with his Cooper Union speech? And, had Douglass won, ho… Read More
2021-03-03 19:16
Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...
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Michael Kremer, Jack Willis, & Yang You: Converging to Convergence: ‘Neoclassical theory predicts con… Read More
2021-03-03 19:15
Not your standard Tannhäuser...
Erik Wade: On Twitter: "Have I got a wild medieval story for you. A woman sleeps with someone in exchange for presents, and her husband… Read More
2021-03-03 19:08
https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-210a-2021-03-10-huddled-masses.pptx
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2021-03-02 15:37
https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/econ-135-4.1.3.4-zoom-modern-economic-growth.pptx
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2021-03-01 00:04
Still Experimenting with Interactive Notebooks
Source: https://github.com/braddelong/econ-135-s-2021-assignments/blob/main/ps-0.1.5.ipynb>nbViewer: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/br… Read More
2021-02-27 00:58
From December 2016. Why we seek for but will never be able to find "fair contribution" theories of & justifications for þe distribution of wealth...
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Pascal L… Read More
2021-02-27 00:48
https://braddelong.substack.com>
Brad DeLong: his personal weblog. Since 1999.
Comments (mostly) welcome. Or email me at [email protected] with "delong-weblog" as the subject. RSS feed… Read More
2021-02-26 01:03
Things that went whizzing by, that I want to remember...
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Very Briefly Noted:
Arindrajit Dube: Impacts of Minimum Wages: Review of the International Evidence https… Read More
2021-02-25 01:02
Imperialism & the capital-M capital-E Mysterious East...
John P. Marquand (1937): Think Fast, Mr. Moto: 'It had not taken Wilson Hitchings long to realize that the firm of Hitchings Br… Read More
2021-02-25 00:59
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If moderate raises in the minimum wage do not cause unemployment, who can object to them—but why do they not cause higher unemployment, if they in fact do not?… Read More
2021-02-24 00:54
Things that went whizzing by, but that I really want to remember...
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There comes a point at which the dishonesty—perhaps "dishonesty" is not the right word… Read More
2021-02-23 00:52
Things that went whizzing by, but that I want to remember...
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This is, I think, by far the most important thing today. It would be one thing if Facebook has not yet f… Read More
2021-02-18 02:19
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Things that whizzed by today, & that I want to note & remember...
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Mike Konczal’s Free… Read More
2021-02-16 17:12
2021-02-15 15:11
I do not know what today's Republicans want America to be, but it is certainly not a democratic republic. And it is certainly not any form of "populism" that I am aware of. Perhaps we should… Read More
2021-02-14 14:45
EG: Alix Gould-Worth: A Valentine’s Day love letter to the Unemployment Insurance program - Equitable Growth: "UI’s social insurance structure is part of its allure. Both means-t… Read More
2021-02-12 04:12
Very Briefly Noted:
Adrian Hon: mssv LINK: https://mssv.net/
Paul Krugman: KrugmanToday: ‘Unstimulus debates… LINK: https://www.krugmantoday.com/toda… Read More
2021-02-12 04:11
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/damned-soul-republican-staffers-and>
First, why do people do this?:
What Fresh Hell Do Republican Staffers Live in?:
Tweeting out that the COVID threat h… Read More
2021-02-11 04:17
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/substack-navel-gazing-and-briefly>
In which I survey things that whizzed by...
Very Briefly Noted:
Wikipedia: Phryne: ‘Mnesarete…… Read More
2021-02-11 04:15
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/substack-navel-gazing-and-briefly>
In which I turn my gaze inward...
why the weblogging Renaissance under the guise of SubStacking?:
What Does SubStack S… Read More
2021-02-08 16:15
Why am I always so effing naïve? Plus things that whizzed past. & some others as well...
I confess that I am so effing naïve.
Jorge Dominguez’s harassment of Terry Karl… Read More
2021-02-08 14:27
The rough transcript & slides for my latest DeLongTODAY briefing
http://delongtoday.com>
I am Brad DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a s… Read More
2021-02-06 01:59
First, read & think about:
Schuman may well be right. But he also may well be wrong here:
Michael Schuman: The Undoing of China’s Economic Miracle: ‘Regulators squelched&he&helli…Read More
2021-02-02 00:55
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/briefly-noted-2021-02-01-mo>
What I have been reading that has arrested me, and made me think. This may be one use I make of my substack as I try to figu… Read More
2021-02-01 00:47
It is curious that—so far at least—this from the extremely sharp McKay Coppins has turned out to be wrong: McKay Coppins: ‘People who spent years coddling the president wil… Read More
2021-01-30 13:32
From 2021-01-29 Fr
From
On Tuesday, January 26, 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted out one word—GameStonk!!—with two exclamation points, and with a link to a board on the intern… Read More
2021-01-29 20:55
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/hayek-and-einstein>
Chasing down an intellectual rabbit hole at Wednesday lunchtime...
I was browsing through Friedrich von Hayek's The Fatal Conceit&md&hell…Read More
2021-01-29 20:53
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/wh-auden-spain>
Written just before WWII, during the Spanish Civil War...
Yesterday all the past. The language of sizeSpreading to China along the trad… Read More
2021-01-28 15:52
There seems to be no fundamental reason to do so. But it does seem that there may be community-discovery and network reasons to do so. So yesterday I threw a bunch of things up at SubStack:… Read More
2021-01-22 01:07
Relatively, that is. Compared to the raging dumpster fire before:
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Take a Look at:
Three short thinking pieces on what Biden is doing/should do:
Eric Levitz: Biden’s Inaug… Read More
2021-01-22 01:03
Tom Snyder: The American Abyss https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/magazine/trump-coup.html: ‘When we give up on truth, we concede power to those with the wealth and charisma to create… Read More
2021-01-13 17:44
Graydon: COVID Evolving: Comment https://www.bradford-delong.com/2021/01/briefly-noted-for-2021-01-11.html?cid=6a00e551f080038834026bdeb50696200c#comment-6a00e551f080038834026bdeb50696200c:… Read More
2021-01-11 15:01
https://braddelong.substack.com/p/briefly-noted-for-2021-01-11> I feel uneasy today, as most of this is outside my wheelhouse. But, for what it is worth, here is what I have found most wo… Read More
2021-01-10 00:21
Bernie Sanders: Why Impeach Now? https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1347625769242140675: ‘Some people ask: Why would you impeach and convict a president who has only a few days l… Read More
2021-01-08 03:02
Gianna Marciarille: Facebook https://www.facebook.com/: Gianna Marciarille is with Michael DeLong.
Just now: 'My literal big brother talking about big brother:
.#equitablegrowth #insurance… Read More
2021-01-07 17:17
Over at Substack: Why Storm the Capitol Building & Then Do Nothing But Take Selfies? https://braddelong.substack.com/p/why-storm-the-capitol-building-and: What did the people who stormed… Read More
2021-01-07 11:30
Time to de-escalate and read and watch something totally unrelated to bad political actors destroying norms of republican political conduct in an attempt to further entrench a plutocracy: Pl… Read More
2021-01-06 21:56
BRIEFLY NOTED:
Mary Boykin Chesnut: Mary Chesnut's Civil War https://archive.org/details/marychesnutscivi0000ches_c1c9/page/36/mode/2up…
Fournée Bakery: 2912 Domingo Ave http… Read More
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