Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Interesting Reads:

• Ada Palmer (2012): Machiavelli I – S.P.Q.F.
• Branko Milanovic: Liberation from the shackles of space: "The Great Convergence by Richard Baldwin is... a novel and persuasive way of defining the three historical eras of globalization as... the reduced cost of transporting (i) goods, (ii) information, and (iii) people...
• Sherry Gleid and Richard Frank: Care for the Vulnerable vs. Cash for the Powerful — Trump’s Pick for HHS
• Pseudoerasmus (2015): Nazi Political Economy

And Over Here:

• Comment of the Day: Robert Waldmann: Undergrad Textbook Macro vs. Really Existing Academic Macro: "I'd also say that the hope that QE would work had quite a lot to do with the really existing macro paradigm...
• Links for the Week of December 25, 2016
• Hoisted from the Archives from Five Years Ago: "Ricardian Equivalence" Is a Claim That Tax Cuts Are Ineffective Stimulus, Not That Spending Increases Are
• Should-Read: Pseudoerasmus: About: "This blog is (mostly) about economic history, growth, and development...
• Should-Read: Tom Scott: @tomscott on Twitter: "The closest I've ever come to falling for a Gmail phishing attack... https://t.co/MizEWYksBh
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Don't Blame Macroeconomics (Wonkish And Petty): "Robert Skidelsky... argues, quite correctly in my view, that economists have become far too inward-looking...
• Towards a Reinvigorated Public (and Academic-Intellectual) Sphere...
• Must-Read: Nick Bunker: The 10 most popular Value Added posts of 2016: "Does the one percent deserve what it gets?...
• Must-Read: John Lyons: Bring Back Jobs From China? In Shenzhen, They Aren’t That Worried: "As Donald Trump presses companies on U.S. manufacturing, city that became poster child for globalization has learned to adapt to economic shifts...
• Should-Read: Peter Lindert: Purchasing Power Disparity before 1914: "The issue has become “when did countries’ contemporaneous purchasing powers diverge?”, not “when did countries’ productivity grow at different rates?”...
• Comment of the Day: David Cloutier: The Economist as...?: The Public Square and Economists: "This is a wonderful piece...
• Comment of the Day: Altoid: Falklands: "I have to think it was televised coverage of the British task force setting off...
• Should-Read: Daniel Johnson: Have Public Intellectuals Ever Gotten Anything Right?: "What [is] it... that gives gravitas to a public intellectual[?]...
• Schoolmen, and Others, as Public Intellectuals...
• Must-Read: Robert Skidelsky: Economists versus the Economy: "Why did [economists] miss the storm?... Queen Elizabeth... asked a group of economists...
• The Value of the History of Economic Thought: Hoisted from the Archives from 2003

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• Maciej Ceglowski: Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People: "The emus responded by adopting basic guerrilla tactics: they avoided pitched battles, dispersed, and melted into the landscape, humiliating and demoralizing the enemy..."
• Squid314: Epistemic learned helplessness
• Daniel Drezner: So you want to preserve the liberal international order
• Casa da Rocha Quebrada on São Miguel
• Shawn Hamilton: What Those Who Studied Nazis Can Teach Us About The Strange Reaction To Donald Trump
• Peter Dreier: Preparing for President Trump
• Ed Kilgore: The Democratic Game Plan for Making Trump Miserable
• Decision Fatigue

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