Archive - DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

CROSSPOST: DAN DAVIES: Snobby About Excel

Dan Davies has his finger on something important here. It is not, at root, about "AI". It is about work. The spreadsheet first escaped from the finance…

14 hrs ago • Brad DeLong

snobby about excel

AI and the end user effect

Published on Dan Davies - "Back of Mind" • 15 hrs ago

CROSSPOST: IAN McKELLEN: William Shakespeare (& Other Playwrights) on Thomas More on Immigrants

On “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”. Immigration, Sir Ian McKellen, Sir Thomas More, ICE, Minneapolis, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, & Senator…

Feb 6 • Brad DeLong

WEEK 2: The Practice & Scope of Economic History: Graduate Economic History :: Spring 2026 :: Econ 210a

75,000 years to go from 10,000 foragers to 200 million farmers to 10 billion post-industrialists. But from -5000 to 1500 life for the overwhelming…

Feb 5 • Brad DeLong

A Brief Note on the Near-Absence of Pre-1500 "Economic Growth"

& some of my musings on how to teach it. The long agrarian-age Malthusian night of the trap, of the ensorcellment: thugs, patriarchs, …

Feb 4 • Brad DeLong

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Yes: Pre-Modern Economies Were Meaningfully "Malthusian" (Which Does Not Mean Incomes Were Stable)

Putting this here so I can find it easily. Originally 2023-03-07. Contra Rafael Guthman; or, what a Malthusian economy looks like. Rafael is doing…

Feb 4 • Brad DeLong

Econ 196 :: Quantitative Long-Run Global Economic History :: Experimental Seminar :: Spring 2026

Feb 4 • Brad DeLong

READING: Judith Shklar as Proto-Feminist in the 1950s

Sewing circles & sections: Judith Shklar’s early Harvard wars of gossip, fairness, & drift as she found a way...

Feb 3 • Brad DeLong

A New Rule for Social Interactions with Anyone Who Ever Voted for or Thought of Voting for Donald Trump

They must begin with an abject apology, declaration of repentance, and agreement to be guided for **all** their future voting decisions by somebody who…

Feb 2 • Brad DeLong

CROSSPOST: TIMOTHY SNYDER: Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio: Nazi Lies in Vance's America

In his first term, the analogues of Hermann Göring, Josef Goebbels, and Reinhard Heydrich did not show up for Donald Trump. Now, in Trump's second term…

Feb 1 • Brad DeLong

Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?

Nazi Lies in Vance's America

Published on Thinking about... • Feb 1

January 2026

Dan Davies Demonstrates for Immigrants: He Returns Home Worried About How Hopelessness Powers Xenophobia

Is the real threat not open cruelty but a corrosive conviction that rich societies are too broken to solve solvable problems. Dan Davies describes…

Jan 30 • Brad DeLong

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