##quantitative-long-run-global-economic-history

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…

Jan 12 • Brad DeLong

"All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Since 1870, Roughly One-Fifth of the Economy Is Transformed Every Thirty Years

This time, we experts in the liberal arts—the artes liberales, the skills appropriate to enrich the lives and make productive those of us who are free…

Oct 13, 2025 • Brad DeLong

Am I Biting Off More than I Can Chew Here?

À propos of figuring out how to enable students to enrich their lives and provide value to their employers, as they live as free people do, by their…

Oct 9, 2025 • Brad DeLong

Abstraction Layers: In Arithmetic & Elsewhere

Counting to 84 by offshoring much of the real work to your information-technology ASI arabic-numeral symbolic copilot, and other topics about variation…

Oct 4, 2025 • Brad DeLong

Does Each of Us Have a Big Enough Brain to Compensate for Our Lack of Fangs, Claws, Sprinting Speed, & Dodging Quickness?

I say: “No”. Not individually we don’t. The Scarecrow in “The Wizard of Oz” had a greatly exaggerated view of what he would have been able to do if he…

Sep 29, 2025 • Brad DeLong

DRAFT: A Small, Intensive, Data-Sciencey Seminar in Long-Run Economic History

I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history…

Sep 17, 2025 • Brad DeLong

From ChatGPT Back to Clay & Cuneiform: A Start at Rethinking Pedagogy for the Age of "AI"

The future of education depends on what we expect students to remember and do, not just what they can prompt Chatbots to generate. Thus forget banning…

May 31, 2025 • Brad DeLong

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