Grasping Reality by Brad DeLong

Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog:

• Nick Bunker: What the Fed’s method of raising interest rates reveals about the state of the global economy - Equitable Growth
• Paul Krugman and Larry Summers Are Such Amazing F#@$*%$ Geniuses! Department - Equitable Growth
• What Is the Eccles Building Thinking Today? III: The Mysterious Absence of Paul Krugman Thought - Equitable Growth
• What Is the Eccles Building Thinking Today? II: The Reasonable People Are Very Unreasonable Indeed - Equitable Growth
• What Is the Eccles Building Thinking Today? I: The Failure to Think Through the Consequences of "Secular Stagnation" - Equitable Growth* Robert P. Brenner (2001): The Low Countries in the Transition to Capitalism: "The medieval and early modern Northern and Southern Netherlands... [were] the most highly urbanized and commercialized regions in Europe..."
• Duncan Weldon: Are the Robots Taking Enough Jobs?: "[Without] big increases in... labour-saving technology... slower growth and... greater share[s] of... incomes... to support the retired..." :: I find myself, more and more, wanting substantive integrated studies of...productivity...
• Rachel Lukasz and Thomas D Smith: Secular Drivers of the Global Real Interest Rate: "Slowing global growth... demographic forces, higher inequality and to a lesser extent the glut of precautionary saving... falling relative price of capital, lower public investment, and... an increase in the spread between risk-free and actual interest rates..." :: What the weights should be on these five possible cures... is not clear to me.