Archive - Slouching Towards Utopia Extras of Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

The Essential & Key Readings Selected from the Required Readings for Econ 115: The World Economy in the 20th Century

There is a demand for a shorter list of things to read than the 42-item reading list. (Hey! That isn't even three things a week!). So here is a list of…

Apr 24 •

November 2023

Sub-Turing BradBot I :: Chat-GPT-4-Turbo

It looks as though ChatBots for first-line office hours may now be attainable... Not the "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" yet, but it may well be…

Nov 9, 2023 •

October 2023

Afterthoughts on Slouching Towards Utopia

20th-Century Modes-of-Production in Historical Perspective; swapping out the slide deck for my general-audience talk about "Slouching Towards Utopia"

Oct 5, 2023 •

Brief Musings on Economists, Economic Ideas, & the Cold War

In the end George Kennan was right: containment was the way to win the Cold War because, ultimately, the really-existing socialist system inside the…

Oct 3, 2023 •

August 2023

DRAFT: "Slouching Towards Utopia": Reply to Social Science-History Association Commenters

We had a panel on "Slouching Towards Utopia" at last fall's SSHA conference. My discussants & oþers þus gave me a present of inestimable value, a…

Aug 31, 2023 •

READING: Lissauer (1914): "Þe Hymn of Hate Against ENGLAND"; & Zweig: "The World of Yesterday"

Kaiser Wilhelm II Hohenzollern awarded Ernst Lissauer the Order of the Red Eagle for this poem of his...

Aug 6, 2023 •

July 2023

Þe "Herbert Hoover" Passages from "Slouching Towards Utopia"

He has an almost "where's Waldo?" knack for turning up. You could almost tell þe history of þe world from 1895 to 1955 as þe biography of Herbert…

Jul 23, 2023 •

One of My Favorite Pieces from "Slouching Towards Utopia"

A meditation on "central planning" in practice & theory.

Jul 19, 2023 •

Þe "Semiconductor" Section from "Slouching Towards Utopia"

One of þe two of twenty technology vignettes þt survived þe editorial chainsaw...

Jul 17, 2023 •

Teaser for ACE Conference Keynote: Title: "Þe 20th Century"

What is special about þe history of þ 20th century? & what does þt specialness mean for þe role of an economist in þe past, present, & future?

Jul 9, 2023 •

& þe Paperback of "Slouching Towards Utopia" Is Out in the UK!

US paperback coming later in the fall...

Jul 6, 2023 •

June 2023

Þe Music to þe Zombie Dance of Human Society Changes Its Key

Algorithm replacing global value-chain, which replaced mass-production, which replaced applied-science, which replaced imperial-commercial, which…

Jun 21, 2023 •

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