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Quantitative Long-Run Global Economic History: Econ 196: Seminar: Special Topics in Economics (Spring 2026)
And we are now launched, with a new preparation for a new course: a Royal Road into the millennia of global economic history, hopefully designed for…
Feb 19
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From Plato to NATO to MAGA: Marco Rubio’s Myths & the Real "Western Alliance"
Reässessing the “West” from John Winthrop to Marco Rubio…
Feb 17
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Brad DeLong
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Assessing Brink Lindsey's "the Permanent Problem"
The Enlightenment and modernity have, Brink Lindsey argues, led to mass society and mass affluence. But their overrun has also created a world where…
Feb 9
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The Streaming Wars Were Just Plain Weird
Netflix climbs to the top of the streaming-success mountain only to see a much bigger mountain in front of it still to climb: The streaming wars were…
Feb 8
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A Brief Note on the Near-Absence of Pre-1500 "Economic Growth"
& some of my musings on how to teach it. The long agrarian-age Malthusian night of the trap, of the ensorcellment: thugs, patriarchs, …
Feb 4
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HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: Yes: Pre-Modern Economies Were Meaningfully "Malthusian" (Which Does Not Mean Incomes Were Stable)
Putting this here so I can find it easily. Originally 2023-03-07. Contra Rafael Guthman; or, what a Malthusian economy looks like. Rafael is doing…
Feb 4
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Brad DeLong
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Thinking of a Very Loose Coalition as an Organism with a Single Heart, Mind, & Will Makes You Stupid
Or at least makes your audience stupid to the extent that they believe you—& for some malevolent actors, that is what they want. If you think “Congress…
Jan 14
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Brad DeLong
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Contra Marx, the Record Since 1870 Is Rotating Upheavals in Leading Sectors, Not Synchronized Economy-Wide Revolutions
Josef Schumpeterian sectoral creative-destruction vs. Karl Marxian economy-wide transformation of base with impacts on superstructure: Marx promised…
Jan 13
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The Spearpoint Right Now of Human Technological Engineering
From Veldhoven, in the Brainport Eindhoven region of the Netherlands, comes the bleeding-edge point of the spear of human technological capabilities…
Jan 10
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Brad DeLong
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The Curious Case of Karl Marx's 1859 "Preface"
Engels pitched methodology; but Marx’s A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy delivered very little in the way of actually, you know…
Jan 10
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Six Analytical Threads in Search of Useful Empirical Traction: On Karl Marx's 1859 "Preface"
Josef Schumpeterian creative-destruction vs. Karl Marxian base-superstructure: What history actually looks like as Marx’s 1859 vision promised imminent…
Jan 8
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Brad DeLong
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(Largely) HOISTED FROM THE ARCHIVES: “West”, “North Atlantic”, or “Dover Circle”?
Hoisted so I can find this easily in the future: From January 2023. With a little bit of reëditing: “West” or “Dover Circle”? A student asked me why, in…
Jan 3
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Brad DeLong
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