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Looking back at the SubStack from end-of-November 2022 to mid-April 2023

Weblogs have always been very good with keeping up with the flow of information. But they have been horrible at resurfacing the stock of past engagements with ideas and events. At its start <http://vox.com> had what seemed to me the very good idea of a kept-up-to-date “StoryStream”. Let me see if I can dust the idea off and actually make it work…

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Looking back on the SubStack from mid-April 2023 back to the end of November 2022: What groupings do notable posts fall into, and what individual posts are notable in their own right? Here is a very rough first sort:

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Inflation Debate Talking Points 

For American Lyceum event wiþ Garett Jones, John Taylor, Tim Kane, & Brad DeLong :: recorded 2023-04-27 Th

BRAD DELONG APR 28, 2023

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Neoliberalism’s Final Stronghold 

The intro & a link to my April Project Syndicate column: expressing my annoyance at the London Economist's belief that laissez-faire is still the proper policy in an economy rife with externalities…

BRAD DELONG APR 27, 2023

Worshipping at the Cold Altars of Neoliberalism: The London Economist keeps the faith and says the prayers, even though no one and no thing is listening; a draft for my April Project Syndicate column…

BRAD DELONG APR 24, 2023

Worshipping at the Cold Altars of Neoliberalism

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"Slouching Towards Utopia": Excerpt at þe Milken Review

A solid piece of the introduction...

BRAD DELONG APR 25, 2023

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WRITING: Slouching Towards Utopia EXCERPT

2023-04-21 Fr

<https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/slouching-towards-utopia>

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Reviewing Charlie Maier’s Þe Project State & Its Rivals

& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-14 Fr: the IMF's view of the world economy; which risks should be socialized?; major economic powers; & Levine, Eskenazi, & Barro...

BRAD DELONG APR 14, 2023

Reviewing Charlie Maier’s Þe Project State & Its Rivals; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-14 Fr

DRAFT: Review of "The Project-State & Its Rivals", by Charles Maier: Networks of cosmopolitan individuals seeking better governance; people hoping to become rich through enterprise; declining resource empires; and project states—a new look at history

BRAD DELONG MAR 9, 2023

DRAFT: Review of "The Project-State & Its Rivals", by Charles Maier

FOCUS: ChatBotting with "The Project-State & Its Rivals", by Charlie Maier: one can almost successfully pseudo-converse with the text of a book; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-08 We: picking high-hanging technological fruit is becoming exponentially harder; pundit reliability falls over time; iphone security...

BRAD DELONG MAR 8, 2023

FOCUS: ChatBotting with "The Project-State & Its Rivals", by Charlie Maier; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-08 We

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HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Why Do Economists Ignore þe Greatest of All Market Failures?

BRAD DELONG APR 11, 2023

HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Why Do Economists Ignore þe Greatest of All Market Failures?

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Very Brief Notes on Forms of Human Organization, & c.

Notes: primitives for human organization, post-1870 societal-organization patterns, & modes of production; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-08 Sa: Dan Drezner on chaos monkey-controlled networks; America's two nations; Nasim Taleb talks...

BRAD DELONG APR 8, 2023

Very Brief Notes on Forms of Human Organization, & c.; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-08 Sa

"Honor" as One of Eight Modes of Human Social Organization—honor as the brittle one; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-03 Mo: Bob Reich approaches retirement; Polanyi; Hemingway; Azhar and Ovadya...

BRAD DELONG APR 4, 2023

"Honor" as One of Eight Modes of Human Social Organization; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-03 Mo

The Algorithm Society and Its Discontents: reciprocity, redistribution, democracy, market, bureaucracy, and... algorithm?; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-06 Mo: "appointing any Democrat to the Federal Reserve is politicization", sources say; Glory Liu on the reception of Adam...

BRAD DELONG MAR 6, 2023

The Algorithm Society and Its Discontents; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-06 Mo

DRAFT: Waiting for the Algorithmic Society: A not-yet-successful draft of my March column for Public Syndicate;

BRAD DELONG MAR 1, 2023

DRAFT: Waiting for the Algorithmic Society

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DRAFT: For My Wednesday Night Lecture: Social Theory for þe 21st Century

I gotta cut this in half, somehow, before Wednesday night; 2023 Navin Narayan Memorial Lecture; Harvard College Committee on Degrees in Social Studies; Cambridge MA

BRAD DELONG MAR 27, 2023

DRAFT: For My Wednesday Night Lecture: Social Theory for þe 21st Century

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The Silicon Valley Bank Crisis: Saturday Night Thoughts on the Need for a Lender of Last Resort

Is Silicon Valley Bank systemically essential? No. Is it systemically important? Yes, in that a failure of the U.S. government to act as a lender of last resort is likely to cause other banks to...

BRAD DELONG MAR 11, 2023

Saturday Night Thoughts on the Need for a Lender of Last Resort

+: Silicon Valley Bank: Monday Morning Quarterbacking, Moral-Philosophical Reflections, & an Extended Shakespeare Quote: Is it a "bailout" if it doesn't cost the government anything to do it? And even if it is a "bailout", if it doesn't cost the government anything to do it is it still a bad thing to do?

BRAD DELONG MAR 13, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank: Monday Morning Quarterbacking, Moral-Philosophical Reflections, & an Extended Shakespeare Quote

PODCAST: Keen On: Tom Keen & Brad DeLong Talk SVB Bank Collapse: talking SVB bankruptcy with Tom Keen; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-19 SuMicrosoft gives a very impressive AI demo; real people get ground into dust in "culture wars"; pseudo-classical semi-liberalism, more energy, "policy ineffecti...

BRAD DELONG MAR 20, 2023

PODCAST: Keen On: Tom Keen & Brad DeLong Talk SVB Bank Collapse; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-19 Su

Silicon Valley’s Loss of Assibayah: Where were the people volunteering to join a rescue syndicate for SVB?; Brad Setser on system risk exceptions; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-21 Tu: wiþ the NIMBYs; Scott Lemieux and David Glasner and Paul Kedrosky and Eric Norlin

BRAD DELONG MAR 21, 2023

Silicon Valley’s Loss of Assibayah; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-21 Tu

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DRAFT: Notes for Possibilities for an Afterword for the Paperback Edition of "Slouching Towards Utopia"

Beware, as none of these thoughts are really ready for prime time yet!

BRAD DELONG MAR 6, 2023

DRAFT: Notes for Possibilities for an Afterword for the Paperback Edition of "Slouching Towards Utopia"

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Industrial Policy: From Engels to Eisenhower, & Beyond

For Promarket: 2023-02-07: The only truly live argument in Schultze’s "Industrial Policy: A Dissent" is: "It is not possible in the American political system...

BRAD DELONG FEB 8, 2023

Industrial Policy: From Engels to Eisenhower, & Beyond

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VIDEO: Þe Market Giveth; Þe Market Taketh Away: Blessed Be þe Name of þe Market?

& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-05 Su

BRAD DELONG FEB 5, 2023

VIDEO: Þe Market Giveth; Þe Market Taketh Away: Blessed Be þe Name of þe Market?; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-05 Su

Hobbist & Lockeian Underlying Assumptions, & Adam Smith Thought: Last Friday we had our semester-opening N2PE event “The Market Giveth, the Market Taketh Away: Blessed Be the Name of the Market?”—the Glory Liu "Adam Smith’s America", Jake Soll "Free Market, Brad DeLong “Slouching Towards Utopia” event; & BRIEFLY NOTED: for 2023-01-15 Su

BRAD DELONG JAN 15, 2023

Hobbist & Lockeian Underlying Assumptions, & Adam Smith Thought, & BRIEFLY NOTED: for 2023-01-15 Su

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Brad DeLong Flies His Orthodox Engelsist Freak Flag on Transformations in þe Mode of Production

A Non-Platonic Twitter Dialogue: In a Better World than This, This Is What Twitter Would Have Been Used for: Bhandari, DeLong, Riley, et al.; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-04 SaMartin Wolf; Mike Konczal; Very Briefly Noted; & ¶s

BRAD DELONG FEB 4, 2023

Brad DeLong Flies His Orthodox Engelsist Freak Flag on Transformations in þe Mode of Production; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-04 Sa

SUBJECT: A Brief Note on Friedrich Engels (1884) on þe Relative Autonomy of the State

BRAD DELONG Jun 24, 2022

A Brief Note on Friedrich Engels (1884) on þe Relative Autonomy of þe State, & Worthy ¶s

READING: Friedrich Engels: “Socialism: Utopian & Scientific”: Chapter 3: 1880: Historical Materialism

BRAD DELONG DEC 12, 2022

READING: Friedrich Engels: “Socialism: Utopian & Scientific”: Chapter 3

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Political Orders: For My February Project Syndicate Column...

New Deal Order, Neoliberalism, Neofascism, Oligarchic Kleptocrism—which of these are live political-economic options for the future. This column draft is not (yet) where I want it to be, so I am...

BRAD DELONG FEB 1, 2023

DRAFT: For My February Project Syndicate Column...

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

BRAD DELONG APR 20, 2023

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

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Þe Meaning of 1870: Þe Year Everything Changed

For "The International Economy", Fall 2022 issue; an excerpt from "Slouching Towards Utopia: Þe Economic History of þe 20th Century"

BRAD DELONG JAN 29, 2023

Þe Meaning of 1870: Þe Year Everything Changed

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LECTURE NOTES: Lessons from Simulating a Malthusian Economy

Uses of math, & limits of knowledge... Attempting to solve the C.P. Snow "two cultures" problem... The systemic parts of a Malthusian economy are (a) stagnant living standards, and (b) population...

BRAD DELONG JAN 17, 2023

LECTURE NOTES: Lessons from Simulating a Malthusian Economy

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Five (or Is It Six?) Magics for Human Prosperity

FOCUS: Þis by Noah Smith May Well Be Better þan Anything I Read in All 2022, & I would say not “three magics”, ending wiþ large-scale sparse regression & classification, but five—& maybe six: eye-hand-brain, language, writing, gift-exchange, science, & maybe big irreducible data; CONDITION: Nearby “Bomb Cyclone”; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-04

BRAD DELONG JAN 4, 2023

Þis by Noah Smith May Well Be Better þan Anything I Read in All 2022, & BRIEFLY NOTED

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Thinking About Adam Tooze’s Take on þe Absolute Decline of Britain

& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-12-31 Sa

BRAD DELONG DEC 31, 2022

Thinking About Adam Tooze’s Take on þe Absolute Decline of Britain, & BRIEFLY NOTED

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Do Buzzwords Attack?: On John Holbo on Russell Jacoby’s Attack on the Horrible Atrocity of Defending Good Causes Badly!

2022-12-27 Tu

BRAD DELONG DEC 27, 2022

Do Buzzwords Attack?

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READING: Tristan Bove: Why You Should Be Happy About Inflation & Worried About Something Else, Top Economist Brad DeLong Says

The occasion of my first—albeit low-wattage, in both senses—twitter mob. From 2022-09-17

BRAD DELONG DEC 23, 2022 <https://fortune.com/2022/09/17/why-inflation-good-economy-stagflation-recession-brad-delong-larry-summers/>

READING: Tristan Bove: Why You Should Be Happy About Inflation & Worried About Something Else, Top Economist Brad DeLong Says

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Michael Hiltzik INTERVIEW on “Slouching Towards Utopia"

2022-10-04 Tu

BRAD DELONG DEC 22, 2022

Michael Hiltzik INTERVIEW on “Slouching Towards Utopia"

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The Long 20th Century Comes to a Shuddering End: In Foreign Policy

A slightly-edited version of the middle third of the conclusion :: 2022-10-02 Su: The Long 20th Century Comes to a Shuddering End: The history of the long 20th century, stretching from 1870 to 2010, is primarily the history of four things: (1) technology-fueled growth, (2) globalization, (3) an exceptional America, and (4) confidence that humanity could at least slouch toward utopia, as governments could solve political-economic problems. And even that slouch was going to be done at uneven, unequal, and unfair rates, depending on skin tone and gender…

BRAD DELONG DEC 21, 2022

The Long 20th Century Comes to a Shuddering End: In Foreign Policy

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Nick Lichtenberg: Interviews Brad DeLong in Fortune

BRAD DELONG DEC 20, 2022

Nick Lichtenberg: Interviews Brad DeLong in Fortune

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Interview: Dylan Matthews at “Vox"

Sep 7, 2022

BRAD DELONG DEC 18, 2022

Interview: Dylan Matthews at “Vox"

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Interview: With James Ledbetter at “The Observer"

Sep 6, 2022

BRAD DELONG DEC 18, 2022

Interview: With James Ledbetter at “The Observer"

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Annie Lowrey: Interview/Profile in “The Atlantic"

Sep 3, 2022

BRAD DELONG DEC 18, 2022

Annie Lowrey: Interview/Profile in “The Atlantic"

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Ryan Avent: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” from “The Bellows"

Sep 9, 2022

BRAD DELONG DEC 18, 2022

Ryan Avent: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” from “The Bellows"

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Timothy Noah: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” in “The New Republic"

September 12, 2022

BRAD DELONG DEC 18, 2022

Timothy Noah: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” in “The New Republic"

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Ryan Avent: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” in “The Economist"

Sep 8th 2022

BRAD DELONG DEC 18, 2022

Ryan Avent: Review of “Slouching Towards Utopia” in “The Economist"

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In Which Long-Time Netizen & Programmer-at-Arms Dave Winer Records a Podcast for Me, Personally

Google kills its—very imperfect—Reader because it wants to trap readers into its walled garden called… you know, I actually forget! So unmemorable!…

BRAD DELONG DEC 14, 2022

In Which Long-Time Netizen & Programmer-at-Arms Dave Winer Records a Podcast for Me, Personally

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Our Ancestors Thought We'd Build an Economic Paradise. Instead We Got 2022

“Slouching Towards Utopia” Time Magazine launch piece; commissioned by Lucas Wittman

BRAD DELONG DEC 13, 2022

Our Ancestors Thought We'd Build an Economic Paradise. Instead We Got 2022

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Inequality Continues to Flummox Us: The 2022 U.C. Berkeley Stone Lecture

Delivered Virtually 2022-11-29 Tu

BRAD DELONG NOV 30, 2022

Inequality Continues to Flummox Us: The 2022 U.C. Berkeley Stone Lecture

Stone Lecture: Inequality Continues to Flummox Us... As Prepared for Delivery: A meditation on “Slouching Towards Utopia"

BRAD DELONG NOV 30, 2022

Stone Lecture: Inequality Continues to Flummox Us...

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An Earlier DRAFT Version of My “Singularity in Our Past Light Cone” Meditation from “Slouching Towards Utopia”

& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-07-06 We

BRAD DELONG JUL 6, 2022

An Earlier DRAFT Version of My “Singularity in Our Past Light Cone” Meditation from “Slouching Towards Utopia”, &

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70,000 Years of Human Economic Growth, Briefly

& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-01-21 Fr

BRAD DELONG JAN 21, 2022

70,000 Years of Human Economic Growth, Briefly

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Macroeconomic Outlook Basecamp Page

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Slouching Podcasts Basecamp Page

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