Grasping Reality Substack: Second Half of 2021

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Slouching Notes:

Chapter VI. Roaring Twenties

SLOUCHING: Front Matter

Front Matter

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Project Syndicate:

PROJECT SYNDICATE: Why All the Inflation Worries?

PROJECT SYNDICATE DRAFT: Why So Much Premature Fear of an Inflationary Spiral?

Notes from an Inflation Event from May...

PROJECT SYNDICATE: The Strange Death of Conservative America

DRAFT: For Project Syndicate: Please Read Geoffrey Kabaservice!

PROJECT SYNDICATE DRAFT: Lael Brainard for Fed Chair

DRAFT FOR PROJECT SYNDICATE: Public Health Still Needs to Be in Command

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Lecture Rehearsals:

Lecture Rehearsals Summary Page

Lecture Rehearsals: 5.1. Þe Neoliberal Turn (20th Century Economic History)

Lecture Rehearsals: 4.3. Thirty Glorious Years in þe Post-WWII Global North

Lecture Rehearsals: 4.2. Inclusion in the 20th Century

Lecture Rehearsals: 4.1. False (& True) Starts to Development, 1911-1990

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.5. Cold War & Peaceful Coexistence

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.4. World War II

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.3. Fascism & Naziism

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.2. Really-Existing Socialism

Lecture Rehearsals: 3.1. Þe Great Depression

Lecture Rehearsals: 2. Chasing Economic El Dorado, 1870-1929: 20th Century Economic History

Lecture Rehearsals: 1. Beginnings: Crossing þe Watershed Boundary of 1870

Background: Guesstimating þe Rate of "Technology" Growth Across þe Millennia...

Readings Note: Partha Dasgupta on How to Think Like an Economist

Review: The Long 20th Century: 1. Beginnings Grand Narrative & Watershed Boundary-Crossing

To My Students Þis Fall: SARS-CoV-2 Overview as of 2021-08-19 Th

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Lecture Notes:

LECTURE NOTES: Adam Smith

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Hexapodia:

Hexapodia Podcast Episodes

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXIX: Þe Swedish Central Bank Prize in Honor of Alfred Nobel Podcast

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXVIII: Build Back Better!

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXVII: Evergrande

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXVI: True, Neo-, and Illiberalism

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXV: Afghanistan

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXIV: Which Great Powers Held the Baton of the Future, When?

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” Is þe Key Insight XXIII: Antitrust

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight XXII: Cuba!

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight XXI: Last Exit Off þe Highway to Serfdom?

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight XX: Five-Item Grab-Bag: Vaccination & Votes; NIMBYism & California Growth, Aversion to UI, Google’s Quality, & Wilhelmine Germany & Contemporary China

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight XIX: America Today: A Zero-Sum Society?

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight XVIII: Þe Ecology of Innovation

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight XVII: What Will the Jobs of the Future Be Like?

PODCAST: Hexapodia XVI: Zombie Economic Ideas

PODCAST: Hexapodia XV: No-Bullshit Democracy, Starring Henry Farrell

PODCAST: Hexapodia XIV: Þe Capital Gains Tax

PODCAST: Hexapodia XIII: "Mandated Interoperability": We Can't Make It Work, or Can We?

PODCAST: Hexapodia XII: Þe Cambridge Capital Controversy

PODCAST: Hexapodia XI: China: Its Industrial Policy, & Its Striving for Deweaponized Autarchy

PODCAST: Hexapodia X: Global Warming

PODCAST: Hexapodia IX: Banishing Extreme Poverty from þe World

PODCAST: Hexapodia VIII: Þe China Syndrome!

PODCAST: Hexapodia VII: Forecasting þe Economy, Now Þt Biden-Rescue Has Been Enacted

PODCAST: Hexapodia VI: Þe Global South Begins to Converge to þe Global North!; Wiþ Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

PODCAST: Hexapodia V: Freeing Us from þe Market; Wiþ Mike Konczal, Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

PODCAST: Hexapodia IV: Checks for (Almost) Everyone! Wiþ Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

PODCAST: Hexapodia III: þe Minimum Wage, wiþ Arin Dube, Noah Smith, & Brad DeLong: Should We Be Fighting for $15?

PODCAST: Hexapodia II: Industrial Policy? Do We Need It?, wiþ Brad DeLong & Noah Smith

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight I: "Relief, Support, Stimulus" or "Stimulus, Inflation, Catastrophe"?: þe Biden $1.9T Reconciliation Plan: Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

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Reading:

READING: From Ursula K. LeGuin: "A Wizard of Earthsea"

READING: Herbert Hoover's View of the Issues in the Campaign of 1928 (Herbert Hoover vs. Al Smith)

READING: Winston S. Churchill on Leon Trotsky

READING: Paul Krugman: Notes on Globalization & Slowbalization

DOCUMENT: Charles de Gaulle: Appeal of June 22, 1940

READING: Charles Kindleberger: Anatomy of a Typical Financial Crisis

DOCUMENT: Jefferson's Original Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence

DOCUMENT: Franklin Delano Roosevelt: “Four Freedoms” State-of-the-Union Address to Congress (1941)

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Hoisted from the Archives:

HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Battered <strike>but Not</strike> & Beaten

HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Europe Fails to Learn þe Lessons of History

HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: NAFTA & Other Trade Deals Have Not Gutted American Manufacturing—Period

HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Harvard as a Dysfunctional Yugoslavian-Communist Firm

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Uncategorized:

I See No Stagflation Here...

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