DeLong's Grasping Reality: Economy in the 2000s & Before

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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Anchoring Your Thoughts Against the Blizzard of Trumpist Lies Is Very Important for You!
STILL VERY IMPORTANT: Proper mental hygiene is essential if you are to be a useful part of humanity-as-an-anthology-intelligence over the next four…
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Fourteen-Lion Parade
Parking this here so I can find it easily. In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows…
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In the Country of the Tswana
In 2007 earthquakes reopened the Savuti Channel from the Okavango Delta—where the Cuando/Okavango River flows into the Kalahari Desert and dries up—to…
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LECTURE NOTES: Lash, Cash, & Cotton in the Imperial-Commercial & Early SteamPower Age
& the racialization of slavery. A ten-mintue taste of what my lectures have to say about post-1500 slavery. This then becomes the lecture introduction…
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Who Were the ‘We the People’ Back in 1787?: Race, Law, & Original Constitutional Sin
Plus the Reconstruction-Era XIV-Amendment redemption. In which I go down a rabbithole of “original public meaning” or whatever. A law student’s white…
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What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him?: How We All Already Have Our Superintelligent AI-Assistant :: POSSIBLE LECTURE OUTLINE
Anthology Intelligence: humanity's collective brain is already our superintelligent friend: We don't need to build superintelligence because we did it…
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DRAFT: Prosperity & "Utopia": The Moving Target :: History of Economic Growth Lecture Notes 1.5
DRAFT: Why the best-laid plans of philosophers and poets never quite survive contact with history—or the marketplace. From Arkadian simplicity to…
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Rakes, Rage, & the Rationality Racket: Jane Austen, High-T, & the Long Arc of Bad Decisions
Contrary to Edward McLaren, literary Regency marriage patterns, stand-up comedy, and Homeric epic all agree: marrying Colonel Brandon is in no way a…
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On the Political Economy of Mendacity in 21st Century America
Yes. The algorithm serves me up Kevin Hassett this morning. The pretense of economic analysis as a form of performance art; a press corps—even an élite…
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Mondays with the Machine: The Tongue & the Token: Language as Interface in Our Current Age of AI
Natural-language interfaces as quite possibly the most important thing about the current wave of MAMLMs. Our frontier MAMLMs are tools that “understand…
The Oddest Man Out Among Our $Hundred-Billionaires: Elon Musk
The mirage of green-tech modernity, the evaporation of Tesla’s cultural capital: oligopoly, charisma, political extremism, the collapse of a psychic…
 • Brad DeLong
Understanding Inequality: Can Gini Coefficients Be Fruitfully Demystified? (Revised and Expanded)
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