Notes, Columns, & Papers: June 2024
Pdf format, for those who wish them, of the substantial & semi-substantial things for 2024-06: 24,800 words...
Pdf format, for those who wish them, of the substantial & semi-substantial things for 2024-06: 24,800 words...
For some reason, there are now a noticable number of people wishing for better .pdf versions of substantial SubStack posts than can be produced by simply hitting the “print .pdf” buttons on browsers.
I am not sure why. The explanations I get is that they seem to have a welcome fixity of form, as opposed to the web-river, into which one can never step in in the same place twice? I do not really understand it.
But I am happy to experiment.
Tell me if this kind of thing is useful…
NEOFASCISM: How the Early 1990s Shaped Modern American Neofascism: Reviewing John Ganz: When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, & How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s (2024-06-27; 2293 words):
MANAGEMENT CYBERNETICS: EXTRA: A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism? (2024-06-24; 1776 words):
MANAGEMENT CYBERNETICS: A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism? (2024-06-24; 5807 words):
SLOUCHING TOWARDS UTOPIA: Joe Weisenthal Really Likes My Slouching Towards Utopia! (2024-06-17; 1676 words):
MACROECONOMIC OUTLOOK: Book Review: A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021, by Alan Blinder (2024-06-17; 1780 words):
MACROECONOMIC OUTLOOK: Shadow Fed Conference: Comments on Orphanides & on Levy & Plosser (Expanded) (2024-06-14; 4466 words):
FINANCIAL CAPITALISM: Please Do Not Incentivize Elon Musk to Focus on Being a Meme-Stock Booster (2024-06-11; 1764 words):
HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT: Marx Was Wrong for His Day, But Is He Wrong for Ours? (2024-06-11; 670 words):
MACROECONOMIC OUTLOOK: A Few Lessons in Monetary Economics That the World Has Taught Us Over the Past Four Years (2024-06-09; 1197 words):
ENLARGING THE BOUNDS OF HUMAN EMPIRE: GUESSES: 70,000 Years of Human Economic Growth, Briefly (2024-06-09; 2364 words):
MACROECONOMIC OUTLOOK: The Case for the Proposition the Macroeconomic Soft Landing Continues, Uninterrupted; & Implications (2024-06-05; 842 words):
Extras:
FINANCIAL CAPITALISM: New York Times Musk op-ed draft (2024-06-04; 1085 words):
MANAGEMENT CYBERNETICS: Davies review 1800-word draft (2024-06-03; 1800 words):
ENLARGING THE SCOPE OF HUMAN EMPIRE: Steampower society (2024-06-02; 310 words):