Share this postBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityLecture Notes Basecamp PageCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreLecture NotesLecture Notes Basecamp PageBrad DeLongJan 17, 2023Share this postBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityLecture Notes Basecamp PageCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreShareBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityMy Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"The New Deal & Neoliberal Orders: Introduction: We decided at the start dedicate a couple of weeks to discussing political economy, not necessarily in the grand sense. Political economy papers in econ…Read more2 years ago · 18 likes · 2 comments · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityLECTURE NOTES: DAY 1: Introduction: Five Questions Surrounding the Identification of 1870 as the Hinge of HistoryLet me talk for a while, and then let’s see if we can have a successful discussion here afterwards…Read more2 years ago · 6 likes · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityLECTURE NOTES: DAY 2: Numerical Guesses at þe Quantitative Picture of Long-Run Economic GrowthPopulation: 70,000 years ago, back in the Early Paleolithic Age, there were perhaps 100,000 of us—100,000 East African plains apes who looked like us, moved like us, acted like us, talked like us, and…Read more2 years ago · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping Reality“West”, “North Atlantic”, or “Dover Circle-Plus”?, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-21 SaFOCUS: “West” or “Dover Circle-Plus”? A student asked me why, in my lectures earlier this week, I kept on referring to the “North Atlantic” rather than the “Western” economies. Why did I use the first…Read more2 years ago · 16 likes · 3 comments · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityDAY 3: LECTURE NOTES: The Logic of the Malthusian EconomyFrom 70,000 to 10,000 Years Ago 70,000 years ago, back in the Early Paleolithic Age, there were perhaps 100,000 of us—100,000 East African plains apes who looked like us, moved like us, acted like us…Read more2 years ago · 3 likes · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityLECTURE NOTES: Lessons from Simulating a Malthusian EconomyAha! SubStack now has a LATEX module! And this makes me think, once again, that I should worry the question of C.P. Snow’s The Two Cultures in my economic history courses… Basically, the 1/3 of student…Read more2 years ago · 26 likes · 5 comments · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityDAY 4: LECTURE NOTES: Efflorescences & Dark Ages in the Agrarian AgeThe Theory of the Malthusian Economy: Efflorescences & Dark Ages If this were a different course, we would spend a week or more probably two building an economic model of how a society in Malthusian e…Read more2 years ago · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityDAY 5: LECTURE NOTES: 2.3. Inequality & Domination Before Modern Economic GrowthOnce people began to farm, especially farm grains, they become relatively stationary: Agriculturalists cannot carry their resources away with them. Their wealth is in their land and the crops they ar…Read more2 years ago · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityDAY 6: LECTURE NOTES: 2.4. Slow Pace of Innovation & Discovery Before Modern Economic Growth2.4.1. In Everything Except Economic Growth, They Were Like Us It could have been different. The rate of growth of human technology could have been faster, back in the Agrarian Age. They were capable …Read more2 years ago · Brad DeLongBrad DeLong's Grasping RealityReadings for Econ 135 S 2023: History of Economic GrowthRequired Books: Clark: A Farewell to Alms Allen: Global Economic History DeLong: Slouching Towards Utopia 1. Introduction Day 1: 2022-01-17 Tu: Introduction Required: Clark 1; Allen 1; DeLong Intro. Optiona…Read more2 years ago · Brad DeLongPreviousNext
