& BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-12-26 Su: First: “You Shall Not Replace Us!” in Historical Perspective: Apropos of history rhyming, another possible analogy that sparks thought, in my head at least, is that between the domestic politics of the late French Troisième République in the 1930s and the United States today. This is properly the bailiwick of the highly estimable John Ganz, whose ‘Stack, IMHO, you should certainly subscribe to (and pay for). But today I want to take up some of the slack...
RE: promoting Slouching Towards Utopia. You've been "teasing" it in your old and new blogs for a decade. Dedicated DeLongophiles are eager to purchase the book. Reaching the rest of the world is a little more problematic. Would your publisher support a book tour? Assuming COVID doesn't continue to impair travel, that would be a strategy. Obviously, you'd concentrate on are with major research universities and large graduate and undergraduate populations.
"Making matters worse, Erdoğan has long pressured the central bank to keep interest rates low, because he subscribes to a crackpot theory that inflation is caused by high interest rates."
Steven Randy Waldman's suggestion is not new, of course. It's basically what Jefferson recommended. The problem is that it ignores the insights of Federalist 10: that local interests are myopic, bigoted, and incomplete. The more you reduce the sphere of voters, the worse the results will be.
RE: promoting Slouching Towards Utopia. You've been "teasing" it in your old and new blogs for a decade. Dedicated DeLongophiles are eager to purchase the book. Reaching the rest of the world is a little more problematic. Would your publisher support a book tour? Assuming COVID doesn't continue to impair travel, that would be a strategy. Obviously, you'd concentrate on are with major research universities and large graduate and undergraduate populations.
“Frontline” special on PBS. Any producer-adjacent people reading comments?
"Making matters worse, Erdoğan has long pressured the central bank to keep interest rates low, because he subscribes to a crackpot theory that inflation is caused by high interest rates."
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Steven Randy Waldman's suggestion is not new, of course. It's basically what Jefferson recommended. The problem is that it ignores the insights of Federalist 10: that local interests are myopic, bigoted, and incomplete. The more you reduce the sphere of voters, the worse the results will be.