Grasping Reality by Brad DeLong

Interesting Reads:

• Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda: Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution: "From 1685 to 1810... the real price of watches... falls steadily by 1.3% a year..."
• Ed Crooks: What role for the workers in Trump’s American factory revival?: "In places like Buffalo there is evidence that US manufacturing has a bright future. It just does not look like a future that will include millions of new jobs..."
• Eric Hobsbawm (1987): The Age of Empire, 1870-1914 http://amzn.to/2gYsn2A
• Eric Hobsbawm (1995): The Age of Extremes, 1914-1989 http://amzn.to/2fOZYqt
• John Maynard Keynes (1919): The Economic Consequences of the Peace http://amzn.to/2gJE24B
• John Stuart Mill (1871): Principles of Political Economy http://amzn.to/2gLSJSw
• Branko Milanovic: Was the 20th Century "Long" or "Short"?
• Invictus: Seattle Minimum Wage Experiment Is Over

And Over Here:

• Must-Read: Sandra Black, Jason Furman, Laura Giuliano and Wilson Powell: Minimum Wage Increases and Earnings in Low-Wage Jobs: "18 states plus the District of Columbia have implemented minimum wage increases...
• Hoisted from the Archives from 2012: Eric Hobsbawm, RIP: Let me correct the late Tony Judt.... It should read: "Even though he was a lifetime Communist, Eric Hobsbawm was one of the greatest historians of the 20th century."
• Hoisted from the Archives from 1984: Faith: Pascal's Wager, When the Odds Are a Thousand to One Against: Eric Hobsbawm says that he would have still been a communist in 1934 even if he had known about Stalin's slaughter and starvation in the Ukraine because Stalin might have been building a utopia. May I guess that Eric Hobsbawm never read Rosa Luxemburg?
• The "Short" vs. the "Long" Twentieth Century...: Ah. I see that you have found the first draft of my opening lecture for Econ 115 next semester... https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/804205835543019520 https://t.co/lK82RVQudb
• Should-Read: Richard Baldwin: @BaldwinRE: "You can’t vote against globalisation by voting against agreements that shape & control it..." https://t.co/AUn6bdczKF
• Should-Read: Matthew Yglesias: @mattyglesias: "I've got some bad news for the American people about Donald Trump's policy agenda..." https://t.co/aCZcJigOcB

You Might Look at:

• Arrival (2016)
• Kindred Winnecoff: World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism

Perhaps Worth Reading...