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The "Wall Street Journal" Tells Us: Trump Takes Command of Inflation, Which Was Massively Unsatisfactory under Biden

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"Civic Friendship": The Baseline Requirement for Democracy, & Incompatible with the Financial Flows Underpinning the Republican Ecology

Sep 25, 2023 • Brad DeLong

My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"

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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Again, This Year, I Lament I Have No Opportunity to Give My "How to Think Like an Economist" Lecture

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I Did an Interview with "Capital" Magazine in Türkiye...

Two big lessons, I think: (1) Expect to be surprised by what happens to your economy and to your rate of economic growth. (2) Recognize that “orthodox…

Mar 2 •

DRAFT: I Get to Talk About the 2nd Industrial Revolution in American Economic History on Monday!

Behind the paywall because I am not yet fully happy with it. Lecture: Innovation, Immigration, & Industry: The 2nd Industrial-Revolution Era Making of…

Mar 1 •

Anchoring Your Thoughts Against the Blizzard of Trumpist Lies Is Very Important for You!

Proper mental hygiene is essential if you are to be a useful part of humanity-as-an-anthology-intelligence over the next four years. Start now…

Mar 1 •

"Inflection Point", Hosted by Dylan Riley & Brad DeLong

Yes, another podcast, as if the world needed more… We are going to try to soft-relaunch "Inflection Point" next week, with our first guest being the…

Feb 28 •

American Economic History: American Exceptionalism Calculations

2025-02-26 We Econ 113: Some quick-and-dirty back-of-the-envelope Python-calculated numbers on the "Great Traverse" that was the long-run knock-on…

Feb 26 •

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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES FROM 1998: Robber Barons

“Industrial Statesmen”, Robber Barons, & billionaires: wealth, power, & the politics of fortune from railroads to Silicon Valley—how the rules of…

Feb 15 •

Time to Revisit: How Does This Assessment Look Fourteen Months Later?

I need to update my assessment I made 14 months ago about "Team Transitory" vis-à-vis "Team Persistent" on US early-2020s inflation. I need to update it…

Feb 10 •

REVIEW: Small People Dealing with Looming Fascism Novel Watch

I do love Jo Walton's "Small Change" trilogy. & I do find it, once again, a very suitable read for our times. Save for the not-unhappy ending part...

Feb 8 •

NOTE TO SELF: TrumpChaos in a BREXIT Mirror

Is the best analogy to the chaos-monkey international trade politics Trump has embarked upon the example of BREXIT? And, if so, what does that tell…

Feb 6 •

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Reviewing Alan Furst's Novel "Dark Star"

From 2001, of a book published in 1991. Alan Furst (1991), Dark Star (New York: Houghton Mifflin: 0006511317). Still the best book about Europe in the…

Feb 4 •

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