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DRAFT: A Very Peculiar Kind of Triumph of the Will Indeed

A draft for Project Syndicate: Did Trump win because key tranches of the electorate had a will to be misinformed, or because of Trump & his enablers…

Nov 8 •

Alexander Hamilton Did too Believe in "Industrial Policy"!!

An annoyance crossing my desk this morning. I mean, this is an easy thing to get right…

Nov 6 •

DRAFT: Five Afterthoughts on "Slouching Towards Utopia": Friedrich von Hayek, Michael Polanyi, & Company...

Not yet ready for primetime, so here behind the paywall. Why does so much of what I see as the most interesting work in the 1900s in political economy …

Oct 31 •

DRAFT: What Might We Learn About the Rise of Neoliberalism from the "Port Huron Statement" Considered as a Historical Document?

Something that might or might not feed into my American Economic History course, Econ 113, here at Berkeley in the spring semester.

Oct 24 •

The Deceptive Poll Punditry of Statistical Noise; or, Why Nate Silver & Co.'s "Silver Bulletin" Is Still the Best Bet

Can one reason with these people? Pundits misinform with overhyped statistical noise, while the truthful message of the “Silver Bulletin” is that little…

Oct 11 •

Time to Write My Negative Review of Nate Silver's New Book "On the Edge"!

But I fail to do so. So here is a core dump of my brain on the subject. For me at least, Nate Silver's gambit to draw direct connections between formal…

Oct 10 •

PROJECT SYNDICATE: The U.S. Economy Defyïng Eeyore Expectations: Enjoy the Soft Landing

My October column: In a world where economic pessimism often dominates, the U.S. economy’s recent resilience stands out. Even after aggressive monetary…

Oct 9 •

BlueSky Is Much Better than Twitter: Ring Lore Edition

I think many more people should come over to BlueSky. I, at least, am having much more fun...

Oct 8 •

Prosperity since 1900: Democratic Presidencies Rule!

Sam Williamson ex-Miami of Ohio & now <http://measuringWorth.com> gives us the numbers, and I reflect on them. Some presidents were really unlucky. For…

Oct 5 •

Key Moments in the Vice Presidential Debate

Four key moments in the Vice Presidential debate that I think may well have legs—and none of them are favorable to JD Vance. Plus observations that I…

Oct 2 •

Another Day, Professional Republican Trying to Do Trump-Vance's Bidding by Normalizing Him & His Policies

This time it is Michael R. Strain of the American Enterprise Institute. Who knows better. Much better. I really do not understand how these people hope…

Sep 28 •

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 •

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