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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…
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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…
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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…
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February 2025

"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…
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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…
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Desperate & Semi-Despairing Night Thoughts About Ukraine
Can you negotiate a peace with sooooo many liars in the room? Is there an unstable path to Ukraine’s future?
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What are We For?
The false populism of the current administration is already a source of growing conflict. Which only raises the question: now what?
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Slides for Tomorrow's (2025-02-24 Mo) "American Exceptionalism" American Economic History Lecture
Why isn't the United States of America one Giant Australia (or New Zealand)? Why the u.s. didn’t stay a land of farmers & miners. How infrastructure…
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First Principles of Fiscal Policy, with Some of Their Practical Applications
My Godley-Tobin Lecture at the Eastern Economic Association. It has turned out to be a full-throated defense of Federal Reserve monetary policy in the…
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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
It seems to me that this is important stuff—that people really should know it before they begin studying economics, because it would make studying…
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American Economic History Midterm This Friday!
Here are my slides for the pre-midterm review class... These are the things I want to have handy today, both to talk about the format and the types of…
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Blame the Right-Wing Noise Machine, Not the Facts on the Ground, for Voters' Dismay About the Economy
No, our economic statistics were not painting us an unusually rosy picture last fall. Yes, the state of the American economy is very disappointing. But…
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