Sitemap - 2023 - Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality
Is America Today Really No More Unequal Economic Class-Wise than It Was in 1960?
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Now Is This Winter of Our Crypto Discontent Turned to Glorious Summer by... Niall Ferguson?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-12-26 Tu
New Year 2024 Paid Subscription Sale!
Cyrus the Persian, Anointed of the LORD, & the Making of the Bible
An Appreciation of: Ernst Gellner: "Plough, Sword, & Book: The Structure of Human History"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-12-23 Sa
HOISTED FROM THE EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM: Duau-Khety: Satire of the Trades
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Morning Notes on December 19, 2023 on the Inflation Debate
Are There Any Full Turing-Class Entities in the House?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-12-18 Mo
DRAFT: The Federal Reserve Deserves Respect!
Musings on Manufacturing's Delaborization, & Development Strategy for the Next Two Generations
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-12-15 Fr
HOISTED FROM THE INTERNET OF LONG AGO: Cosma Shalizi (2010): The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone
I Was on "Team Transitory": My Historical Perspective Made Me Smarter
Where Asymptote?: Trying to Think About GPT-LLM-ML
REPOSTED: SubStackers Against Nazis
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TEACHING NOTE: E.P. Thompson & "The Making of the English Working Class"
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Soft Landing Touchdown: The Macro Sitch as of the Start of December 2023
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Grasping Reality Here & Now, a Quarter of the Way Through the 2000s
Successful Future Humanities Programs Will Be Those That Provide High Literacy & Deep Numeracy
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-28 Tu
NOTE TO SELF: Interesting Economic-History Job-Market Papers
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-24 Fr
Are Index Funds Making the Economy Less Fair?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-19 Su
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READING: Istvan Hont: How to Write Brilliant Essays
Notes for DeLong, Forbes, & Kohn "Probing for Full Employment" Panel
If You Are Just on the "National Review" Mailing List, This Is the Kind of Thing It Sends You
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-15 We
Yesterday Was the Release Date for Martha Wells's New MurderBot Novel, "System Collapse"
DRAFT: Why Do Homeowners Tend to Think They Deserve Strong Housing-Price Appreciation?
DRAFT: Why the New and Sharp Disjunction Between the State of the Economy & Consumer Sentiment?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-11 Sa
The Hinge of Human History: 1870
Sub-Turing BradBot I :: Chat-GPT-4-Turbo
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-09 Th
PROJECT SYNDICATE: The Attention Economy Goes to Court
When Is It a Depression & Not a Rolling Sectoral Readjustment Rotation?
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: BioCultural Human Evolution & Its Implications for History & Society
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-05 Su
This Really Is What a Macroeconomic Soft Landing Would Look Like
It Is Not Properly Called "Technofeudalism". But What Is It?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-11-03 Fr
A Useful & Human Grand Narrative for the 21st Century
Chat-GPT as Clever Hans Once Again
Identity Politics Meets College Politics With Predictably Stupid, Immoral Results
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-31 Tu
DRAFT: Diana Henriques: Taming the Street
Marco Becht Presents: Voice Through Divestment
POSSIBLE COURSE UNIT: High Patriarchy & the History of Underdevelopment
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-28 Sa
READING: F.T. Marinetti: Futurist Manifesto
BOOK SUMMARY: Manville & Ober: "The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives"
REVIEW: Manville & Ober: "The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-25 We
What Does Hornbeck & Logan's $1.44 Billion "Aggregate Economic Gain" from Emancipation Really Mean?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-23 Mo
NOTES ON: Christopher J. Berry: The Idea of Commercial Society in the Scottish Enlightenment
Engels & Marx as Epigones of Adam Smith the Historical-Materialist Stage Theorist
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READING: Du Fu: Ballad of the Army Wagons
What Is the Ten-Year Real Rate Going to Be? I: How We Got Here
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I Do Not Believe There Are Any Just Wars to Be Waged in the Middle East
The Economic Anxiety Explanation of Fascism Is Wrong
When Conservatives Undermine National Security
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-12 Th
PODCAST: Hexapodia LIV: We Go Off Message with Special Guest Brian Beutler
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-10 Tu
Now in Print: My Review of "Taming the Street" & "The Problem of 12"
Michael Lewis Definitely Does Not Understand How to Play the Probabilities—or Even Read the Evidence
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-06 Fr
After 30 Years, the Bond Market Vigilantes Are Back!
What the Hell Happened in the US House of Representatives?
Afterthoughts on Slouching Towards Utopia
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-10-04 We
Brief Musings on Economists, Economic Ideas, & the Cold War
A Note of Puzzlement on Kevin McCarthy's Strategy
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-09-30 Sa
It Appears We Are Almost at the End of the Glidepath to an Inflation Soft Landing...
1. Guesstimating Typical Living Standards in the Agrarian Age
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-09-28 Th
Worth Teaching "Efflorescences & Dark Ages" in a History-of-Economic-Growth Unit?
PROJECT SYNDICATE: America's Broken Civic Bargain
Reinvested-Portfolios Wealth Accumulations Starting in 1870
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-09-25 Mo
TICKLER/HOISTED: Philosophy of Probability—Something I Really Should Get Back to
What World Is Brian Buetler Living in?
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This (2023-09-18 Mo) Lunchtime in Ann Arbor! Free Sandwiches! (While Supplies Last)
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-09-17 Su
Jeet Heer Reads Ex-"New Republic" Owner Marty Peretz wiþ a Certain Schadenfreude
PODCAST: Hexapodia LIII: Rule #1: No Schmittposting!
READINGS: Preliminary Food for Thought for Þs Morning's "Hexapodia" Taping
2023-09-15 Fr: NOT YET FINISHED: Ethno-Domination Conservatism vs. Cosmo-Plutocratic Conservatism
How Is Our Current State Different from What We Would See in a Successful Inflation Soft Landing?
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The Puzzle of Properly Regulating American Finance
What Kind of Trade-&-Technology "Cold War" Should We Here in þe United States Be Trying to Fight?
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NOT YET FINISHED: Musings on Recent Macroeconomic Events since 2000
Stochastic Parrots Do Not Understand Þt Hexapodia Is, in Fact, þe Key Insight
READING: Franklin Ford: Robe & Sword: Þe Regrouping of þe French Aristocracy After Louis XIV
How Much of a Courtier Is Walter Isaacson Þese Days?
Þe Real Job Growth Number for August Is: 77,000
Federal Reserve Jawboning Tightens a Notch in August
BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2023-08-31 Th
DRAFT: "Slouching Towards Utopia": Reply to Social Science-History Association Commenters
DRAFT: What Is Going on wiþ China’s Economy?
BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2023-08-28 Mo
How Strong Are þe Economy's Equilibrium-Restoring Forces?
DRAFT: How Can We Deal wiþ Zombie Neoliberal Ideas?
BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2023-08-25 Fr
DRAFT: Þe Plague Years Have Made Me More Optimistic About þe Future of þe Global Economy
Are at Least Some of Us About to Replace "Programming" wiþ "Invocation"?
Understanding þe Current Stance of U.S. Monetary Policy
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-23 We
Macroeconomic Outlook Basecamp Page
HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Jupyter Notebook Programming Dos and Don'ts
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-21 Mo
HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Þe Barrington Moore Problematic & Its Discontents
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-16 We
READING: Eric Hobsbawm in 1962 on þe "Dual Revolution", 1789-1848
Þe “lumpenproletariat”, þe “dangerous class”, þe “social scum” of þe 1800s
PODCAST: Hexapodia LI: Begun, Þe Attack on Biden Industrial Policy Has!
Beveridge Curve Slope Missing in Action...
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-14 Mo
FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Golden Age of Weblogging: 2003-08-10, -11, -12, & -13
FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Thrown Against þe Wall on þe Proto-Weblog in November-December 1996...
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-11 Fr
Hexapodia L: Why Is Such a Good Economy Seen as Bad?
HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Six Episodes of U.S. Inflation Above 5%/Year in the 1900s
Viewing Sparta, & Ancient Society More Generally
FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Productivity Growth Optimism, & Oþer Topics
I Seem to Have Missed þe 25th Anniversary of My Weblog
Public-Sphere Networks & Þe SubStack Bosses' Latest Pratfall-Flirtation
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-07 Mo
PROJECT SYNDICATE: Investment Theory in Practice
READING: Lissauer (1914): "Þe Hymn of Hate Against ENGLAND"; & Zweig: "The World of Yesterday"
NOTE TO SELF: I Seem to Have Brushed by Richard Hanania Twice
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-05 Sa
PODCAST: Vital Center: Reflections on "Slouching Towards Utopia"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-08-02 We
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REVIEW: Martin Turkis on "Slouching Towards Utopia"
REVIEW: Anthony Annett: A New Social Democracy?
DRAFT: Why Have Superhigh Long-Run Stock Returns in America Persisted?
Really: Þere Are Real Nazis Here
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-07-28 Fr
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Þe "Herbert Hoover" Passages from "Slouching Towards Utopia"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-07-23 Su
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READING: "Turkestan" & "Aristoi"
One of My Favorite Pieces from "Slouching Towards Utopia"
Þe "Semiconductor" Section from "Slouching Towards Utopia"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-07-16 Su
HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES (2015): Black Swans Roosting in Trees on Dunsinane Hill Blogging
Passing 20,000 Total Subscribers Milestone Sale!
"Coercive" States, & Judging Among þe Nations
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-07-13 Th
Does Thunder Have a Red Beard?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-07-10 Mo
Teaser for ACE Conference Keynote: Title: "Þe 20th Century"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-07-08 Sa
& þe Paperback of "Slouching Towards Utopia" Is Out in the UK!
My SubStack Now Has More Readers þan þe Previous Weblog Ever Did
Interest-Rate Increases Have Not Materially Cooled Housing Construction!?!?
Ensorcelled by þe Devil of Malthus
What I Wish I Had Said at: Reinvent: A Meeting of þe Minds on þe Positive Possibilities of Gen AI
NOTE TO SELF: Optimal Ex-Post Stock-Market Leverage
READING: Erich Auerbach: "Mimesis": from Sicharius & Chramnesindus
Time to Ride or Die for Larry Fink!
American Upper Middle-Class Existence & Its "Discontents[?]"
Yes, Adriana Kugler Would Make a Very Good Federal Reserve Governor
I Did Not Have February 1917 on My 2023 Bingo Card...
PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVIII: The "Late-Antiquity Pause"
SubStack Now Has a Referral Program...
Þe Music to þe Zombie Dance of Human Society Changes Its Key
What Is Right & What Is Wrong in "Slouching Towards Utopia": Venkatesh Rao's View
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-20 Tu
Theses on China, þe U.S., Political-Economic Systems, Global Value Chains, & þe Relationship
READING: Marc Andreessen (2014): Why Bitcoin Matters (excerpts)
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-17 Sa
How Did I Get too Online? Þe Story
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-16 Fr
Note to Self: Producer Price Index Inflation Ended a Year Ago
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-14 We
Good Headline, Disappointing Core Inflation Numbers Þis Morning
HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Luigi Zingales: How to Resist Trump
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-12 Mo
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-10 Sa
Policy for Inflation Control: Conte, Kane, & Litan's American Lyceum Project
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-08 Th
PROJECT SYNDICATE: Can America Escape Its Second Gilded Age?
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-06 Tu
Nepotism Special: Across þe Spider-Verse
Trying to Think Through Our Crisis of Liberal Democracy, Part I
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-03 Sa
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-06-02 Fr
DRAFT: Bringing Our Unfortunate Second Gilded Age to an End?
After þe Steampower Economy...
"Spiderman: Across þe Spiderverse" Is Hitting It Out of þe Park...
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-30 Tu
HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Keynes, Marx, Trotsky, Yglesias
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-29 Mo
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Þe Grift Is Very Strong in Ron DeSantis—and in Elon Musk & David Sacks
Open letter to Jeffrey Sachs on the Russia-Ukraine war
Down þe Id of þe Internet wiþ Stable Diffusion & Camera
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-25 Th
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-21 Su
Two Roberts Lucas: March 2009 & August 2009
DRAFT New Preface to "Concrete Economics: The Hamiltonian Approach to Economic Management & Policy"
Enlarging the Bounds of Human Empire: A History of Economic Growth
Time to Remind All Slackers to Buy "Slouching Towards Utopia"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-17 We
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-13 Sa
Our Current Moderate Inflation Is Just Not a Truly Serious Problem
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-11 Th
First Republic Falls, & What Happens to Banking Next
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-05-07 Su
HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: In 2005-2013, þe Long-Run Came First, & þe Short-Run Came Later
Print the Perpetual (Consol) Bond
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BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-28 Fr
Inflation Debate Talking Points
Preservation Award for Holgate House Restoration & Addition
Neoliberalism’s Final Stronghold
A Plea to Chad Orzel (or Anybody Else) for Help wiþ þe Foundations of Quantum Mechanics!
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-26 We
"Slouching Towards Utopia": Excerpt at þe Milken Review
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-25 Tu
Worshipping at the Cold Altars of Neoliberalism
BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2023-04-24 Mo
Slouching Podcasts Basecamp Page
Macroeconomic Outlook Basecamp Page
SubTuringBradBot Basecamp Page
Asking SubTuringBradBot 1.01 About Swallow Speed, the Devil of Malthus, & John Maynard Keynes
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-21 Fr
My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-19 We
CHIPS Act Lurching Forward; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-17 Mo
SubStack's Dilemma; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-15 Sa
Reviewing Charlie Maier’s Þe Project State & Its Rivals; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-14 Fr
NOTE TO SELF: Looking Inside þe Operation of SubTuringBradBot 1.0
My Inflation Outlook as of 2022-04-12 We; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-12 We
HOISTED FROM ÞE ARCHIVES: Why Do Economists Ignore þe Greatest of All Market Failures?
What Kind of Future Do SubStack & Twitter Have?; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-10 Mo
NOTE TO SELF: Turning Up þe Temperature in Chat-GPT
SubStack “Notes” Is About to Be a Thing, Perhaps…; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-09 Su
Very Brief Notes on Forms of Human Organization, & c.; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-08 Sa
Continuing to Waste Time by Trying to Understand ChatBots; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-05 We
"Honor" as One of Eight Modes of Human Social Organization; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-03 Mo
No, I Do Not Think þe Microprocessor Doomed Social Democracy; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-04-02 Su
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-29 We
DRAFT: For My Wednesday Night Lecture: Social Theory for þe 21st Century
Notes, Not so & Briefly Noted: For 2023-03-25 Sa
Continuing to Worry at þe Chat-GPT4 Issue, as If I Were a Dog, & It an Old Shoe
Silicon Valley’s Loss of Assibayah; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-21 Tu
MICROBLOGGING: Þe Nature of French Régimes in þe 1800s; & Oþer Topics to Be Added...
Brad DeLong on þe Human Condition in þe Long 20th Century; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-20 Mo
PODCAST: Keen On: Tom Keen & Brad DeLong Talk SVB Bank Collapse; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-19 Su
Welcome to "Modernity": A Comment on Living in Exponential Time; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-18 Sa
KV-Curious Podcast; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-17 Fr
Is Þere Someone Who Is a Reliable Narrator & Knows About Chile?: & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-16 Th
Testing Out Internet Search-Enabled Chat-GPT4
Unproductive & Productive Tech Bubbles: BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-14 Tu
READING: Now Why Did Joe Biden Pick Jay Powell Over Lael Brainard for Fed Chair, Again?
Saturday Night Thoughts on the Need for a Lender of Last Resort
Interviewed by Smart-Thinking Books; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-11 Sa
MICROBLOGGING: Was “Move Late But Fast” þe Right Strategy for þe Federal Reserve?; & Oþer Topics...
DRAFT: Review of "The Project-State & Its Rivals", by Charles Maier
The Algorithm Society and Its Discontents; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-06 Mo
State of þe Macroeconomy; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-04 Sa
BradBot 0.4 Still Not Ready to Hold Office Hours; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-03 Fr
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-01 We
DRAFT: Waiting for the Algorithmic Society
DRAFT: Feeding Audio to Chat-GPT3 & Getting Reasonable Results; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-28 Tu
Do Internets Dream of Electric Sheep?; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-27 Mo
WEEK 4: Day 6: 2.4. Slow Pre-Modern Technology Growth :: History of Economic Growth
Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-25 Sa
"Slouching Towards Utopia" Sales Jump; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-24 Fr
DAY 10: Lecture Slides: 4. Modern Economic Growth; 4.1. Puzzles of the Industrial Revolution
DAY 9: Lecture Slides: 3.5. On the Eve of the Industrial Revolution
DAY 8: Lecture Slides: 3.3. Culture, & 3.4. Psychology
DAY 7: Lecture Slides: 3. Breaking Through: 3.1. The Dover Circle, & 3.2. “Institutions”
Conversations with Tyler: Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress (Ep. 172)
Conversing wiþ Tyler Cowen; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-22 We
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-18 Sa
Slides for Day 5 of þe Graduate Economic History Course...
PROJECT SYNDICATE: A History of Economic Whac-A-Mole
<strike>Wasting Time</strike> Experimenting with GPT-3 ChatBots; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-13 Mo
Slides for Day 4 of þe Graduate Economic History Course...
Slides for Day 3 of þe Graduate Economic History Course...
MICROBLOGGING: FLEE, PUNY HUMANS!!!!
How þe Long 20th Century Transformed þe World; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-09 Th
Industrial Policy: From Engels to Eisenhower, & Beyond
REVISITED: How Worried Should We Be About Rising Inflation?; & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-07 Tu
DAY 6: LECTURE NOTES: 2.4. Slow Pace of Innovation & Discovery Before Modern Economic Growth
MICROBLOGGING: QE in Retrospect
PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVII: “Polycrisis” Was Just the New Cold War All the Time!
Utopia or Bust?, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-02-03 Fr
David Chance: REVIEW of “Slouching” at Independent.ie
DRAFT: For My February Project Syndicate Column...
Five Things, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-30 Mo
Þe Meaning of 1870: Þe Year Everything Changed
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-29 Su
Basic Books UK Runs a Joint Social-Media Promotion!, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-01-27 Fr
Learning From Past Fights wiþ Inflation
Slides for Day 2 of þe Graduate Economic History Course...
DAY 5: LECTURE NOTES: 2.3. Inequality & Domination Before Modern Economic Growth
On Re-Meeting bCourses, UC Berkeley’s CMS, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-24 Tu
Toward a Theory of þe Natural Rate of Inflation, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-23 Mo
Zach Carter REVIEWS “Slouching” for “Dissent"
DRAFT: Þe First Inflation Problem of þe 21st Century
“West”, “North Atlantic”, or “Dover Circle-Plus”?, & BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-21 Sa
DAY 4: LECTURE NOTES: 2.2. Efflorescences & Dark Ages in þe Agrarian Age
DAY 3: LECTURE NOTES: 2. Ensorcelled by þe Devil of Malthus: 2.1. Þe Logic of þe Malthusian Economy
Slides for Day 1 of þe Graduate Economic History Course...
LECTURE NOTES: Lessons from Simulating a Malthusian Economy
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter from Birmingham Jail
Readings for Econ 135 S 2023: History of Economic Growth
Hobbist & Lockeian Underlying Assumptions, & Adam Smith Thought, & BRIEFLY NOTED: for 2023-01-15 Su
Chat-GPT: What Is It Good For?, & BRIEFLY NOTED
Steve Donoghue: REVIEW of “Slouching” at Open Letters Review
Utopia & Its Enemies: Thomas Robert Malthus
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-01-09 Mo
READING: Victor Serge (1938): 1938 Preface to “Year One of the Russian Revolution"
DRAFT: Preliminary History-Oriented Throat-Clearing on American Industrial Policy
BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2022-01-06 Fr
My Commentary on þe Beginning of “Slouching Towards Utopia”, & BRIEFLY NOTED
Þis by Noah Smith May Well Be Better þan Anything I Read in All 2022, & BRIEFLY NOTED
Welcome to þe New Cold War Thunderdome!, & BRIEFLY NOTED
Þe Deceptive "Thucydides Trap", & BRIEFLY NOTED
Creeping Academic Idiocy—Academic Freedom Edition, & BRIEFLY NOTED