Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

What is best in life?

What is best in life is to spend the 11 hours of a Northern Hemisphere polar winter's night one spends in the belly of an A340-300 in transit from SFX to ZRH (a) eating Swiss chocolate, and (b) reading Barry Eichengreen's (2015) brilliant and superb Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 0199392005).

More--hopefully much more--to follow...