Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Regular Bookmarks

• Matthew Yglesias: How is it that this government science report showing how full of crap the administration's global warming policy is ever got released? Here you have charts and plain language making it clear that the administration's policy goal of redu
  (tags: 20070303 climate_change global_warming bushisms)
• Mark Schmitt to Jeff Faux: It wasn't dishonest for people who wanted to stop NAFTA to demand unattainable labor and enviro standards. It's perfectly reasonable to say, "only under the following conditions would this be a good deal." That the conditions wo
  (tags: 20070303 nafta international_trade grand_strategy)
• US Postal Service Solves Long Waits By Removing Clocks From Post Offices - Consumerist
  (tags: 20070303 funny utter_stupidity)
• De Re Militari
  (tags: 20070303 books culture history medieval military reference war society)
• A Colder War - a novelette by Charles Stross
  (tags: 20070303 books science_fiction scifi ebooks book war)

From the Archives: Best Things Written and Found: June 1993-August 2002

• Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed"
  (tags: 20020813 bestworkarchive politics economics social_democracy social_welfare social_insurance books)
• Brink Lindsey on Trade Promotion Authority
  (tags: 20020802 bestworkarchive bushisms politics international_trade)
• Nice Things to See on and Above the Ocean
  (tags: 20020731 bestworkarchive war military grand_strategy)
• Mark-My-Beliefs-to-Market Time
  (tags: 20020726 bestworkarchive international_finance finance crises Argentina)
• Larry Lindsey Endorses Strategic Trade Policy
  (tags: 20020726 economists bushisms lindsey international_trade bestworkarchive)
• Vulgar Monetarism
  (tags: 20020724 bestworkarchive economics monetarism forecasting federal_reserve macroeconomics)
• The Wall Street Journal's David Wessel Writes About Macroeconomic Vulnerabilities
  (tags: 20020718 bestworkarchive macroeconomics)
• Health Insecurity
  (tags: 20020716 bestworkarchive health_economics health_policy politics)
• Whoa! That Antonin Scalia Is One Mega Scary Unrighteous Dude, Man!
  (tags: 20020715 moral_philosophy moral_responsibility law utter_stupidity bestworkarchive)
• No Comment: "The problem with the French," Bush confided to Blair, "is that they don't have a word for 'entrepreneur'."
  (tags: 20020714 bestworkarchive bushisms funny utter_stupidity)
• A Trillionfold Fall in the Price of Computation
  (tags: 20020701 bestworkarchive computers technology economic_growth)
• Productivity Growth in the 2000s
  (tags: 20020624 computers technology economic_growth bestworkarchive)
• Bequests: An Historical Perspective
  (tags: 20020623 inheritance economic_history economic_growth bestworkarchive)
• William Poundstone's "Prisoner's Dilemma"
  (tags: 20020204 bestworkarchive game_theory prisoner's_dilemma books)
• Key Dates in the Invention and Development of the Steamship
  (tags: 20020201 bestworkarchive steamship technology international_trade economic_history)
• The Fourth Estate
  (tags: 20011109 art economic_history history political_economy bestworkarchive)
• I'm Still in Shock About 911: But I'm Trying to at Least Start to Think About It
  (tags: 20011007 bestworkarchive 911 grand_strategy reformation history)
• A Link to One of My Interesting Graphs...
  (tags: 20010918 bestworkarchive economic_history technology economic_growth)
• A Talk on the Coming of the Information Age in Very Long Historical Perspective
  (tags: 20010915 economic_history technology information bestworkarchive)
• Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy
  (tags: 20010801 eichengreen international_finance moral_hazard meltdown finance Clinton bestworkarchive)
• Groping Toward a Way of Thinking About the Information-Age Economy
  (tags: 20010503 bestworkarchive economic_growth information information_economy)
• My Earliest Forecast of the Late-1990s Boom
  (tags: 19940518 economic_growth technology computers bestworkarchive)