Sitemap - 2024 - Brad DeLong's Grasping Reality

ScratchPad: The Fed Should Target Nominal GDP Growth at 5.5%, & Freddie de Boer Gets Exercised About a Thing That Is Not, in Fact, a Thing: 2024-05-02 Th

PROJECT SYNDICATE: Musk Has Made Tesla a Meme Stock

Tesla Needs Its Tim Cook Now!

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-30 Tu

The Neofascist Five Supreme Court Justices: America's Downward Political Spiral Continues...

Scratchpad: A Five-Factor Stock-Market Model Is a Description of Failure Modes of the Efficient Market Hypothesis & Not a Confirmation of It!, & MOAR!: 2024-04-29 Mo

READING: Annette Gordon-Reed on Understanding Sally Hemings's Life

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Reading Will MacAskill’s "What We Owe the Future"

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-27 Sa

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

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Understanding Book-Classification ISBN Numbers & the Current Limits of MAMLMs

ScratchPad: John Maynard Keynes Was too Concerned with Wealth & Income Distribution...: 2024-04-21 Su

Why Is the Apple Vision Pro Going to Get Its Shot, While the Humane AI Pin Is Not Going to?

BRIEFLY NOTED: FOR 2024-04-17 We

England ca. 1900 as the Only True Steampower-Industrial Society EVAR

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Are Editors Useful? Noah Smith Says: NO!!

READING: Patricia Crone on the Agrarian Landlord-Dominated Gunpowder-Empire as the Normal Climax Societal Order of the East African Plains Ape...

On Ryan Avent’s Meditations on Trumpism

Trying to Puzzle Through the Current Macro Situation

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-04-09 Tu

Large-Scale Transcontinental Societal Coöperation in the Classical-Age East-African Plains Ape

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Sub-Turing BradBot: Finally Ready for Prime Time!

NOTES: ChatGPT4's Current Ability to "Reason", & What Follows from That...

READING: Jo Walton (1998): "The Lurkers Support Me in Email"

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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Information Technology in the Service of Society

Dealing with Global Warming Over the Next Fifty Years

DRAFT: Time to Start Thinking About What to Teach in the Fall!

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-23 Sa

NOTES: On Mid-21st Century Undergraduate Education, & Virgil's Prophecy of Jupiter: "Imperium sine Fine Dedi"

READING: Brief Selections from John Maynard Keynes (1919): "The Economic Consequences of the Peace"

PODCAST: Hexapodia LVIII: Acemoglu & Johnson Should Have Written About Technologies as Labor-Complementing or Labor-Substituting

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-18 Mo

A Note: Some Persistent Structures of Antiliberal Thought

READING: Alan Ryan on Isaiah Berlin on Karl Marx

PROJECT SYNDICATE: The Mystery of U.S. Interest Rates

DRAFT: Notes: What Is the Techno-Optimist Slant on “AI”?

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2023-03-14 Th

Having Neighbors Who Vote for Donald Trump Is Dangerous to Your Health

On Færie-Stories—like Frank Herbert's "Dune"—Derived from Agrarian-Age Roots

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-03-09 Sa

Nobody Expected Our Current Interest-Rate Configuration

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Gunpowder-Empire Fiscal Legibility & State Development: Economic History/Political Economy Seminar

Do Not Spend too Much Time "Getting Good" at Dealing with Current AML GPT LLMs

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Fear of a Black Pope!

What To Do About the Dependence of the Form Progress Takes on Power?: Quick Takes on Acemoglu & Johnson's "Power & Progress"

Affirmative Action: A Primer, & A Finger Exercise

A Note: What Is "Management" Anyway?

Should I Be Running a Mail Answers Column?

Were We Expelled from Egalitarian Eden Not by the Pomegranate, But by the Plough and the Ox? Perhaps...

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-02-25 Su

Noting the Appearance of Chris Dixon's Book "Read, Write, Own": Am I Still Allowed to Believe in Web3?

NOTES: Yes, America's Chaotic Capital Market Is a Blessing, But Not an Unmixed One...

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: A Woman Called "Toad"

American Nationalism, Teddy-Roosevelt Style!

"Slouching Towards Utopia": The Sean Illing "Grey Area" Interview

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-02-20 Tu

On Michael Mann's "On Wars"

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-02-19 Mo

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Origins of Fascism in the Modern Pace of Econo-Social Creative Destruction

American Politics & Governance Is Actually in Relatively Good Shape

Understanding Why so Many, Many False Starts in Sub-Saharan Africa...

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Paul Schmelzing Is Coming to Berkeley to Talk About Interest Rates since 1310!

People Should Not Prioritize What They Think Are "Vibes" Over Actual Data: The Economic Situation Really Is—Relative to All Other Years since 2000—Excellent

HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: DeLong: "The Economist as...?: The Public Square & Economics"

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-02-08 Th

PODCAST: Hexapodia LVII: The "Vibecession" Is Losing Its Vibe

PROJECT SYNDICATE: What Is the Fed Thinking?

We Need to Do Better than Hum 1 & Soc Sci 2 in General Education

Econ 115 :: The World Economy in the 20th Century :: Lecture 6 :: Post-1870 Technological Acceleration

America's Past Deficits & Current Debt Are Very Unlikely to Be a Problem; But Future Deficits Might...

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-02-02 Fr

The Federal Reserve Should Have Cut Interest Rates on January 31, 2024...

NOTES: Dario Perkins Reminds Us That This Is Not a Normal Business Cycle, & Angus Byelma Reviews "Slouching Towards Utopia"...

Econ 115 :: The World Economy in the 20th Century :: Lecture 5 :: Post-1870 Globalization

Right-Wingers Who Want a Higher Fertility Rate... Somehow Never Think of Making Motherhood Easier and Better-Rewarded?

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-29 Mo

REVIEW: Harold James: “Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization”

Yes: FTX Was Really Bankrupt. And the Standard Excuses Are as Invalid as They Typically Are

REVIEW: Patricia Crone: Pre-Industrial Societies

Econ 115 :: The World Economy in the 20th Century :: Lecture 4 :: The Demographic Transition

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One Bitter Lessons of BREXIT: The Neoliberal Era May Not Be Over, for Alternatives Are Even Less Pleasant

The World Economy Remains Highly Integrated

Econ 115 :: The World Economy in the 20th Century :: Lecture 3 :: Breaking Out of Agrarian-Age Near-Stagnation

The Onrushing Wave of the Infotech Revolution

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-21 Su

PODCAST: Hexapodia LVI: Economic Development: Oks & Williams, Rodrik & Stiglitz

Econ 115 :: The World Economy in the 20th Century :: Lecture 2 :: Agrarian-Age Societies

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-17 We

Can We Provide Algorithmic Society with a More Human Face than Was True of Market, Bureaucratic, or Command-&-Control Society?

Econ 115 :: The World Economy in the 20th Century :: Lecture 1 :: Introduction

Martin Luther King, Jr.: At Bishop Charles Mason Temple of the Church of God in Christ, Memphis, Tennessee, March 18, 1968

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-14 Su

Pre-Spring Vacation Readings for: Econ 210a: Introduction to Economic History

Schedule & Readings for: Econ 115: The World Economy in the 20th Century

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-12 Fr

READING: Raymond Aron (1965): Qui Perd Gagne?

Thinking Probabilistically; Thinking Pragmatically

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-08 Mo

Why Is There No Jacquerie in "Pride & Prejudice"?

Bill Ackman: A Four-Thousand Word Tweet

READING: My Ancestor Samuel Sewall (1700): "The Selling of Joseph: A Memorial"

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-05 Fr

Tim Duy of SGH Macro Advisors Also Thinks the Fed Is Behind the Curve on Easing

How Much of an Information-Technological Revolution Is Now on Our Doorstep?

ChatGPT4: Tablets of Power: The Dual Roles of Literacy in Ashurbanipal’s Assyria

Gentry, Culture, & the "Left Behind" Places

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2024-01-03 We

Masters of Blancmange Baking at the "New York Times"

READING: January 1, 1863: Abraham Lincoln: A Proclamation