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One Bitter Lessons of BREXIT: The Neoliberal Era May Not Be Over, for Alternatives Are Even Less Pleasant
Commenting Yet Again on Martin Wolf: Why he is convincing me that, contrary to what I have thought since 2007, the Age of the Neoliberal Order is not…
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Thinking Probabilistically; Thinking Pragmatically
Review of: Robert Rubin: "The Yellow Pad: Making Better Decisions in an Uncertain World"
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Gentry, Culture, & the "Left Behind" Places
Noodling around what I fear are the most important issues in regional development policy today, at least in America...
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Feminist Impulses
An outttake from "Slouching Towards Utopia", to be repurposed for "The Enlarging of the Human Empire...
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1. Guesstimating Typical Living Standards in the Agrarian Age
For Econ 210a S 2024; time to apply all the lessons I have learned in the past decade to rejiggering how "Introduction to Economic History for Graduate…
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"Civic Friendship": The Baseline Requirement for Democracy, & Incompatible with the Financial Flows Underpinning the Republican Ecology
Thus what Manville and Ober's "The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives" has managed to do is to convince me that we are much more likely totally hosed…
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How Strong Are þe Economy's Equilibrium-Restoring Forces?
Answer: not strong at all in þe absence of þe right fiscal & monetary policies, & þe right fiscal & monetary policies are, broadly, þe Keynesian & þe…
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Understanding þe Current Stance of U.S. Monetary Policy
A very simple (and not adequate for professionals) primer & guide for the perplexed...
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Grokking þe History of Antiquity: Ancient Stories of Élites Already More þan Half-Transformed into Myth
Should we read Steven Pressfield's "Gates of Fire" & Herodotos's "History" & THEIR STORY of Leonidas & his 300 at Thermopylai? Is pro-Spartan Herodotean…
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Guns, Germs, Steel, Coal, Slavery, Seaborne Empires, Peninsulas, Mountain Ranges, Rainfall, & Chance: Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, & Steel…
I am strongly positive on "Guns, Germs, & Steel"; David Kedrosky is even more positive; so let me, against þe grain, try to set out what can be said in…
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Trying to Think Through Our Crisis of Liberal Democracy, Part I
Þis was supposed to be a review of Martin Wolf's "The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism", but I have gotten very distracted indeed...
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My Introduction to My Class on "New Deal & Neoliberal Orders"
A cleaned-up rough transcript of what I said at the start of class 2023-04-19 We
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