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Brief Musings on Economists, Economic Ideas, & the Cold War
In the end George Kennan was right: containment was the way to win the Cold War because, ultimately, the really-existing socialist system inside the…
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A Note of Puzzlement on Kevin McCarthy's Strategy
I read this as McCarthy tacking left while trying not to say so, and throwing Ukraine under the bus—for the moment at least—to give MAGA-heads & those…
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It Appears We Are Almost at the End of the Glidepath to an Inflation Soft Landing...
& yet there does seem to be a very curious disjunction between chatter and current-data reality. A great deal of this is clickbait noise-and-fluff, …
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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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PROJECT SYNDICATE: America's Broken Civic Bargain
I was going to write a review of Manville and Ober's brand-new survey of democracy in four societies, but I got sidetracked. So instead, I wrote about…
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My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"
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DRAFT: How Can We Deal wiþ Zombie Neoliberal Ideas?
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Guns, Germs, Steel, Coal, Slavery, Seaborne Empires, Peninsulas, Mountain Ranges, Rainfall, & Chance: Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, & Steel…
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Yes. Rome Did Fall
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Þe Short Room...
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About Þis SubStack
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Thomas Hirst on center-right politicians worshipping at cold altars; dueling estimates of the "neutral" interest rate r*; BPEA conference day 1; very…
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Deaths of despair among the less well-educated; Harvard grade inflation; Fox News misinformation is not just political; very briefly noted; McCoy on…
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Hexapodia Is the Key Insight! By Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

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PODCAST: Hexapodia LIII: Rule #1: No Schmittposting!
Listen now (71 mins) | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LII: Growth, Development, China, the Solow Model, & the Future of South & Southeast Asia
Listen now (50 mins) | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other…
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PODCAST: Hexapodia LI: Begun, Þe Attack on Biden Industrial Policy Has!
Listen now (52 mins) | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other…
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Hexapodia L: Why Is Such a Good Economy Seen as Bad?
Listen now (48 mins) | Noah Smith & Brad DeLong Record the Podcast We, at Least, Would Like to Listen to!; Aspirationally Bi-Weekly (Meaning Every Other…
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Archives of My Weblog, Items Surfaced from

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TICKLER/HOISTED: Philosophy of Probability—Something I Really Should Get Back to
Not, mind you, that I have anything deep to say about the philosophy of probability. I cannot even decide whether Bayesian all-is-prior-plus-evidence is…
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HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Racism as a Way of Easing Stepping-Away from þe Egalitarian Presumptions of Utilitarianism
Þe case of George Stigler & Chicago After Henry Simons...
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FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Golden Age of Weblogging: 2003-08-10, -11, -12, & -13
Human "Augmentation", Getting Infotech Wrong, Multiple "Right Wingers Behave Badly" Posts, One "Centrists Behave Badly" Post, & MOAR
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FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Thrown Against þe Wall on þe Proto-Weblog in November-December 1996...
MOAR þan 25 Years Ago...
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FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Productivity Growth Optimism, & Oþer Topics
My weblog, 20 Years Ago Today: 2003-08-08 & 2003-08-09
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I Seem to Have Missed þe 25th Anniversary of My Weblog
It was actually, perhaps, on November 11, 2021, wiþ my notes on "World Economic Prospects"
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