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Scratchpad: Expand the Supreme Court!, #Actually, We Are at the Fed's Inflation Target, & Resentment of the Poor by the Rich: 2024-04-26 Fr
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"Civic Friendship": The Baseline Requirement for Democracy, & Incompatible with the Financial Flows Underpinning the Republican Ecology
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My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"
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NOTES: ChatGPT4's Current Ability to "Reason", & What Follows from That...
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Is America Today Really No More Unequal Economic Class-Wise than It Was in 1960?
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The Essential & Key Readings Selected from the Required Readings for Econ 115: The World Economy in the 20th Century
There is a demand for a shorter list of things to read than the 42-item reading list. (Hey! That isn't even three things a week!). So here is a list of…
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-22 Mo
Substantial monetary tightening since mid-2023 even as real economic strength and more rapid inflation reduction than expected offset each other; Dani…
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Understanding Book-Classification ISBN Numbers & the Current Limits of MAMLMs
My view: MAMLMs—Modern Advanced Machine-Learning Models have significantly less in the way of parsimonious truth-based internal representations of the…
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ScratchPad: John Maynard Keynes Was too Concerned with Wealth & Income Distribution...: 2024-04-21 Su
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Why Is the Apple Vision Pro Going to Get Its Shot, While the Humane AI Pin Is Not Going to?
How much rationality is there in the market reactions so far—rationality in individual assessments and intentions, & rationality in the workings of…
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One Bitter Lessons of BREXIT: The Neoliberal Era May Not Be Over, for Alternatives Are Even Less Pleasant
Commenting Yet Again on Martin Wolf: Why he is convincing me that, contrary to what I have thought since 2007, the Age of the Neoliberal Order is not…
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Thinking Probabilistically; Thinking Pragmatically
Review of: Robert Rubin: "The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World"
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Gentry, Culture, & the "Left Behind" Places
Noodling around what I fear are the most important issues in regional development policy today, at least in America...
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Feminist Impulses
An outttake from "Slouching Towards Utopia", to be repurposed for "The Enlarging of the Human Empire...
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1. Guesstimating Typical Living Standards in the Agrarian Age
For Econ 210a S 2024; time to apply all the lessons I have learned in the past decade to rejiggering how "Introduction to Economic History for Graduate…
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"Civic Friendship": The Baseline Requirement for Democracy, & Incompatible with the Financial Flows Underpinning the Republican Ecology
Thus what Manville and Ober's "The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives" has managed to do is to convince me that we are much more likely totally hosed…
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How Strong Are þe Economy's Equilibrium-Restoring Forces?
Answer: not strong at all in þe absence of þe right fiscal & monetary policies, & þe right fiscal & monetary policies are, broadly, þe Keynesian & þe…
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Understanding þe Current Stance of U.S. Monetary Policy
A very simple (and not adequate for professionals) primer & guide for the perplexed...
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Grokking þe History of Antiquity: Ancient Stories of Élites Already More þan Half-Transformed into Myth
Should we read Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" & Herodotos's "History" & THEIR STORY of Leonidas & his 300 at Thermopylai? Is pro-Spartan Herodotean…
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Guns, Germs, Steel, Coal, Slavery, Seaborne Empires, Peninsulas, Mountain Ranges, Rainfall, & Chance: Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, & Steel…
I am strongly positive on "Guns, Germs, & Steel"; David Kedrosky is even more positive; so let me, against þe grain, try to set out what can be said in…
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Trying to Think Through Our Crisis of Liberal Democracy, Part I
Þis was supposed to be a review of Martin Wolf's "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism", but I have gotten very distracted indeed...
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My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"
A cleaned-up rough transcript of what I said at the start of class 2023-04-19 We
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Hexapodia Is the Key Insight! By Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

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PODCAST: Hexapodia LVII: The "Vibecession" Is Losing Its Vibe
Producer Confidence & Consumer Confidence (in the Economy), & Our Confidence (in Our Analyses): Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LVI: Economic Development: Oks & Williams, Rodrik & Stiglitz
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LV: The Forthcoming Successful Development of the Asia Circle, & Dehyperglobalization
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LIV: We Go Off Message with Special Guest Brian Beutler
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LIII: Rule #1: No Schmittposting!
Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other Week); Aspirationally…
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