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Notes on Friedrich Engels (1884) on "The Relative Autonomy of the State"
What was Friedrich Engels doing here, in 1884, in trying to shape the direction of the socialist movement that was the Second International?...
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Before 1870, the Malthusian Devil Comes Back the Very Next... Half Millennium, at Best
Was ancient Greece truly an escape from the Malthusian trap? No! Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson argue that classical Greece defied Malthusian…
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PROJECT SYNDICATE: How Humanity Lost Control: A REVIEW of Dan Davies: "The Unaccountability Machine: Why Big Systems Make Terrible Decisions…
For Project Syndicate <http://project-syndicate.org>: the unaccountability machines we have built, or how our complex societal systems are making us…
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A Return of "Management Cybernetics" as a Way Forward Out of Economics-Based Neoliberalism?
I signed up to write an 800-word review of Dan Davies’s brand-new "The Unaccountability Machine". The problem is that what I now have is more than 5000…
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Is Harvard's Government Department Really Weaker Today Because of the Absence of Analogues to Ned Banfield, <strike>James Wilson</strike…
Steve Teles's pleas for help in fighting "academic sectarianism" seem convincing to me in abstract, but unconvincing to me when we get down to empirical…
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The Great Agrarian-Age Vine-&-Fig Tree Shortage
Humanity Ensorcelled by the Devil of Malthus...
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Book Review: "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021"
Alan S. Blinder. "A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961-2021. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022. 440 pp. $24.95…
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Shadow Fed Conference: Comments on Orphanides & on Levy & Plosser (Expanded)
My current thoughts on the stability of the monetary standard and the role of central banks in maintaining economic stability, drawing on historical and…
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Please Do Not Incentivize Elon Musk to Focus on Being a Meme-Stock Booster
Originally published June 11, 2024, 5:03 a.m. ET in the "New York Times"...
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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: 70,000 Years of Human Economic Growth, Briefly
From January 22, 2022:
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The Case for the Proposition That the Macroeconomic Soft Landing Continues, Uninterrupted; & Implications
In which I read Paul Krugman, & once again find myself arguing myself into believing that the Federal Reserve ought to have spent this spring cutting…
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The Birth of Modern Prosperity: Ilari Mäkelä Interviews Brad DeLong
& I highly recommend Ilari Mäkelä's "On Humans" Podcast...
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