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The Second-International Socialists of the Late 1800s Atop Mt. Nebo: A Sketch of How They (More-or-Less) Viewed the World

Looking ahead to when, after the midterm, I get to humanity's true watershed boundary-crossing of 1870: how I now think I will present things, summing…

Sep 22 •

Watching the Fed: Anticipated Rate-Cut Rollercoaster

With Nick Timiraos & Colby Smith—& Tim Duy—now in charge of how I interpret Fed messaging...

Sep 18 •

Reading About Rome

A note on my current course: Economic Growth in Historical Perspective...

Sep 18 •

"The Hunters of Kentucky": The Jacksonian Thread of American Nationalism

What I see as the third of the major strains of American national identity—behind Massachusetts-Puritan and Virginia-Cavalier: Kentucky-frontier...

Sep 9 •

America Has No Alternative to Industrial Policy: PROJECT SYNDICATE

My September column is now live. As I said, it points to a problem—the problem of understanding and building state capacity—rather than offing a…

Sep 5 •

America Once Again at the Crossroads of Neoliberalism & Industrial Policy: DRAFT for PROJECT SYNDICATE

A first draft, and much more a posing of an important problem than an answer. A peek for paid subscribers only...

Sep 3 •

Lecture Highlights: Why Are People Watching Me (Try to) Program in Python?

Plus MOAR, as I provide (some of) this week's lecture highlights: How do we shift education to cope with technology? This has been a problem since the…

Aug 31 •

DRAFT: Making Moral Judgments of History: A Brief User's Guide

Something I should perhaps cover in my first class or to this fall: my views on how we should make moral judgments when we do history, and to be sure to…

Aug 24 •

Truth-Telling About Trump's Tariff & Immigration Policy Is too Hot for Jackson Hole...

…even though Adam Posen wishes otherwise. Economic—like geophysical, biological, archeological, and many other sciences—truth-telling has become a…

Aug 22 •

1.1. Introduction, Contents, & Topic: "What Rough Beast?: The 21st-Century World in Political-Economy Polycrisis" :: 1.0 DRAFT ms.

DRAFT section 1.1 ms. of chapter 1 "Introduction" of "What Rough Beast?: The 21st-Century World in Political-Economy Polycrisis", plus contents …

Aug 13 •

The Bond Market Thinks a Possible Return to Secular Stagnation Has Just Entered the Chat

A surprising recent move in inflation-breakevens: hard to understand without both (a) a return of inflation becoming a very minor possibility, and (b) a…

Aug 9 •

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

I need a new framework for & I have a new title for Econ 135: "'The Enlargement of the Human Empire, to the Effecting of All Things Possible': A History…

Aug 9 •

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