Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

MOAR Should-Reads:

• Duncan Black: Random Thought: "The only way to solve the mass transit 'last mile problem'...
• Steve Peers: Hard Brexit Benefits? Change Britain’s £24 billion of unicorns: "he pro-Leave group ‘Change Britain’ produced a ‘report’ (actually a press release with an annex) claiming £24 billion worth of benefits from a ‘hard Brexit’... (Th)
• From Jack Farrell: H.R. Haldeman's Notes from Oct. 22, 1968: "During a phone call on the night of Oct. 22, 1968... (Th)
• Mark Wu: The 'China, Inc.' Challenge to Global Trade Governance: "The rise of China presents a major challenge to the multilateral trade regime...
• Evan Soltas: On Twitter: "Why Trump has only "charlatans and cranks" for economic advisors, in one graph." https://t.co/CGb7nJNTlI https://t.co/6g2DwptZ0A
• Olivier Blanchard: In Light of the Elections: Recession, Expansion, and Inequality: "What happens to the US economy depends mainly on the balance between macroeconomic and trade measures...
• Tim Burke (2005): Book Notes: Theory's Empire: "Some other points that emerge along the way... strike me as important...
• Timothy Martin: The Champions of the 401(k) Lament the Revolution They Started: "Herbert Whitehouse, formerly a Johnson & Johnson human-resources executive, was one of the first proponents of the 401(k)...
• Etienne Gagnon, Benjamin K. Johannsen, and David Lopez-Salido: Understanding the New Normal: The Role of Demographics: "Calibrating an overlapping-generation model with a rich demographic structure to observed and projected changes...
• Middle-Age Mortality
• Neel Kashkari: Taylor Rule Would Have Kept Millions Out of Work: "Forcing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to mechanically follow a rule, such as the Taylor rule...

MOAR Links:

• Keith Tribe (2009): The political economy of modernity: Foucault’s College de France lectures of 1978 and 1979
• Istvan Hont (2005): Jealousy of Trade: International Competition and the Nation-state in Historical Perspective
• Gavin Kennedy (2007): The Moment When Brad Delong Understood What Adam Smith Was About
• Keith Tribe: Karl Heinrich Marx 1818-2018: "2018 marks the year of the bicentenary of Karl Marx's birth... a conference... to recall Marx's achievements as an economist and political philosopher...
• J. Bradford DeLong (1982): The Classical Economists Perceive the Industrial Revolution
• Keith Tribe (2009): The political economy of modernity: Foucault’s College de France lectures of 1978 and 1979
• Shane Greenstein: Ten Open Questions for the Techno-Optimist
• Looper: Rogue One Easter Eggs That Slipped Right By You
• Robert Solow (2001): [After "Technical Progress and the Aggregate Production Function"][]
• Edward Denison (1985): [Trends in American Economic Growth][]
• Alexander Gerschenkron (1962): Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective a Book of Essays
• Beat Siegenthaler: Why The Dots Matter
• Cory Doctorow: Happy Public Domain Day: here's what American's don't get this year, thanks to retroactive copyright term extension
• Cory Doctorow: Scott Walker's Wisconsin continues to scrub its websites of climate change mentions
• Jeff Faux (2014): The Neoliberal Mind at Work: Brad DeLong’s Muddled Defense of NAFTA
• (2013): Chilean Politics, "Neoliberalismo", Once-And-Future President Michelle Bachelet, "Seeing Like a State", the Really-Existing Socialist and Neoliberal Projects of the Twentieth Century, and the Electoral Victory of Her New Majority Coalition
• (2007): My Little Golden Book of Neoconservatism
• Jeff Weintraub (2007): "Neocons," "very liberal Communists," and other scare-words
• Casa de Rocha Quebrada Images
• Casa de Rocha Quebrada
• The Dress
• Duncan Black: I Can't Read Your Damn Web Site: "I know people gotta pay the bills, but we've reached peak absurdity in the latest ad cycle..."
• Apalachin Meeting
• Caffeine Content of Drinks
• Miskatonic University Press: First Lines to Richard Stark's Parker Books
• The Scary Debate Over Secular Stagnation: Hiccup... or Endgame?
• Anglo Saxon London Map
• Martin Wolf: Risks that Threaten Global Growth: "Consistent growth is a relatively recent phenomenon...
• Ada Palmer (2014): The Hollow Crown: Shakespeare’s Histories in the Age of Netflix
• Sean Carroll: The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
• Joseph Antos and James Capretta: The Problems With ‘Repeal And Delay’
• Lawrence Summers: Repatriated Cash Won’t Boost Investments
• Moses Abramovitz (1986): Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind: Journal of Economic History 47:2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 385-406
• Jessica Shankleman and Chris Martin: Solar Could Beat Coal to Become the Cheapest Power on Earth
• Daniel W. Drezner: "So the president-elect's foreign economic policy team sounds a little kooky..." https://t.co/AOoUVCbFN2
• eero
• Antonio Fatas and Larry Summers: Hysteresis and fiscal policy during the Global Crisis
• Paul Krugman: America Becomes a Stan
• Scott Alexander: [Trump and the Batman Effect][]:
• CSPAN: Philippe Aghion and Heather Boushey Discuss Economic Growth and Inequality
• Mike Konczal and Marshall Steinbaum: It’s Still Not the Supply Side: Yes, workers should be able to move and work freely. But economics remains fundamentally about power. A response to Steve Teles's contribution to the “What’s Holding Us Back” symposium
• Steve Teles: Competitive Egalitarianism: How to Structure Markets
• Nick Bunker: The (Updated) Definitive Ranking of Econ Twitters
• Map--Losses in World War Two
• Ben Thompson: Medium Retrenches: "It seems likely that its Medium for Publishers products will be... important.... I think Medium has made the right decision here: it makes sense to extend the company’s runway if the ultimate viable outcome is orthogonal to what would be necessary to raise another round of capital." | (2015): What is Medium Doing? | The Reality of Missing Out: "Digital advertising is becoming a rather simple proposition: Facebook, Google, or don’t bother"
• Ev Williams: Renewing Medium’s focus: "We didn’t yet have the right solution to the big question of driving payment for quality content."
• Tim Peterson: Medium will eliminate its Promoted Stories ad product following layoffs
• German Lopez: Study: racism and sexism predict support for Trump much more than economic dissatisfaction - Vox
• What does it say about me that I find "we have used a Stern-Gerlach magnet with a field gradient in the direction z to measure spin in the direction y..." to be the funniest thing I have read this month?.... W. H. Zurek (1981): Pointer basis of quantum apparatus: Into what mixture does the wave packet collapse?
• Sidney Coleman (1994): Quantum Mechanics in Your Face
• Alexei Kosygin
• Guy Incognito: On Twitter: adamtooze @delong_: "Britain provided the Time, USSR the blood and the US the Treasure, to defeat the nazis"
• Harold Pollack: The American Medical Association to Congress on ACA: First, do no harm. And let’s see the detailed “replace” plan before any “repeal.”
• Kurt Wagner: Medium says it can’t make money selling ads so it’s laying off a third of its staff