I have no love of RBT (came and went long after my time in grad school), but did it have ANY impact at all on the Fed's failure to maintain aggregate demand 2008-2020?
CDC admits mistakes: "This raises the question of why we insisted in so many crazy precautions for these same young children for so long, in ways that I strongly believe did serious damage to their development and well-being."
The same question for why the roll out of the vaccines (delayed for "risk theater" reasons) were "promoted' by hyping their safety rant then their net-of-risk benefits to people big vaccinated and those the vaccinated did not infect.
"For now, however, we’re tackling climate change with carrots, not sticks, with subsidies, not taxes. And that’s OK."
No, it's not "OK" it jut better than nothing, but so is a ham sandwich.
But what is really NOT "OK" is Krugman wasting his time and influence reassuring NYT readers that their opinions are "OK" rather than trying to push for what he very well know we should be doing, taxing net CO2 emissions
I have followed up with another message to Fresh Air. I don't have a lot of faith that they take over the transom suggestions very seriously, but electrons are cheap.
Burke mentions Jefferson's 'contradictions': I'm wondering if you ever worked through ('reading' is a not-quite-adequate term) Gary Wills' "Inventing America" (1978), which took a Hutcheson-not-Locke view in an attempt to find a non-contradictory (though not blameless) Jefferson. Yes, Wills attempts to parse Jefferson out of the dominant Scottish-Enlightenment influences "of his time," but when I picked up the book last winter (after ~45 years), it seemed eerily contemporary; Hutcheson's moral and social theories (if not Jefferson's) provided an interesting take, not just on racism, but on the seemingly-irreducible cultural-regional divisions in the US that you have so often called out. (Not wanting to suggest the book is any kind of 'answer' - just curious if you have a view on it.)
In response to the EU looking at solar power a question arises. If they use microwave radiation to beam the power to earth what happens when it is cloudy? The water vapor in the cloud will heat up, the overall energy of the weather system will increase and, I suspect, bad things will come to those on the ground. Just because you can does not mean you should.
Academics need to be talking more about the CDC's mea culpa. The headline story is "CDC admits mistakes" is burying the more important story that its mistakes stem from a culture that has changed from its creation as a functional response agency to its current cultural form as yet another academic department. While its purpose is to put science to practice it has become yet another chaser of journal rankings. Public universities, especially the Land Grant ones, need to be paying attention to this. Who are you serving and how?
Historians -- I have long thought that what historians write about is more a reflection of the current culture than an understanding of the past. Its al driven by the questions in which they are interested.
I'm still annoyed at the cult of "longtermism". How is it supposed to survive a critique by induction? Why will it not be forever jam tomorrow?
I have no love of RBT (came and went long after my time in grad school), but did it have ANY impact at all on the Fed's failure to maintain aggregate demand 2008-2020?
CDC admits mistakes: "This raises the question of why we insisted in so many crazy precautions for these same young children for so long, in ways that I strongly believe did serious damage to their development and well-being."
The same question for why the roll out of the vaccines (delayed for "risk theater" reasons) were "promoted' by hyping their safety rant then their net-of-risk benefits to people big vaccinated and those the vaccinated did not infect.
"Why did Democratic presidents embrace an economic credo that annihilated their own public philosophy and its appeal to the electorate?"
They didn't
"For now, however, we’re tackling climate change with carrots, not sticks, with subsidies, not taxes. And that’s OK."
No, it's not "OK" it jut better than nothing, but so is a ham sandwich.
But what is really NOT "OK" is Krugman wasting his time and influence reassuring NYT readers that their opinions are "OK" rather than trying to push for what he very well know we should be doing, taxing net CO2 emissions
I don't like the company of the Big Ideas but of course am happy that it will help disseminate your book.
Your agent probably already knows this, but here is what NPR's webpage says about suggesting books for review https://help.npr.org/contact/s/contact?request=Recommend-a-book-for-review
I have followed up with another message to Fresh Air. I don't have a lot of faith that they take over the transom suggestions very seriously, but electrons are cheap.
I thought that Dave Karpf's substack on "longtermism" was really good.
And here are Andy Gill & Jon King expressing a sentiment similar to Brecht's:
What I'd like to hear:
Tales of people's history
Not the styles of strategic combat
The movements of events we hear about
They weren't the ones to get it in the neck
Fighting it out for some other's causes
They're invisible!
They didn't exist!
History's bunk, I've got no past!
In the future, we'll invent more junk!
Brad:
Burke mentions Jefferson's 'contradictions': I'm wondering if you ever worked through ('reading' is a not-quite-adequate term) Gary Wills' "Inventing America" (1978), which took a Hutcheson-not-Locke view in an attempt to find a non-contradictory (though not blameless) Jefferson. Yes, Wills attempts to parse Jefferson out of the dominant Scottish-Enlightenment influences "of his time," but when I picked up the book last winter (after ~45 years), it seemed eerily contemporary; Hutcheson's moral and social theories (if not Jefferson's) provided an interesting take, not just on racism, but on the seemingly-irreducible cultural-regional divisions in the US that you have so often called out. (Not wanting to suggest the book is any kind of 'answer' - just curious if you have a view on it.)
In response to the EU looking at solar power a question arises. If they use microwave radiation to beam the power to earth what happens when it is cloudy? The water vapor in the cloud will heat up, the overall energy of the weather system will increase and, I suspect, bad things will come to those on the ground. Just because you can does not mean you should.
Academics need to be talking more about the CDC's mea culpa. The headline story is "CDC admits mistakes" is burying the more important story that its mistakes stem from a culture that has changed from its creation as a functional response agency to its current cultural form as yet another academic department. While its purpose is to put science to practice it has become yet another chaser of journal rankings. Public universities, especially the Land Grant ones, need to be paying attention to this. Who are you serving and how?
Historians -- I have long thought that what historians write about is more a reflection of the current culture than an understanding of the past. Its al driven by the questions in which they are interested.