Grasping Reality by Brad DeLong

• Missing the Economic Big Picture: No Longer so Fresh at Project Syndicate http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/no-longer-so-live-at-project-syndicate-market-capitalism-social-democracy-and-trade-negotiations.html APL AEG EaW GEH TCEH 2016-12-22
• BREXIT, Trump, and Eurozone Breakup Odds http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/brexit-and-trump-and-the-stability-of-the-euro-q-have-brexit-and-trump-increased-the-probability-of-a-breakup-of-the-eu.html APL GEH MGW TCEH 2016-12-06
• Hoisted from the Archives: This Time It Is Not Different: Walter Bagehot and the Persistent Concerns of Financial Macroeconomics http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/this-time-it-is-not-different-walter-bagehot-and-the-persistent-concerns-of-financial-macroeconomics-introduction.html GEH MGW TCEH 2016-12-13
• What Is the Excellence of an Economist? http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/highlighted-good-or-even-competent-economists-are-the-rarest-of-birds.html MGW TPS TCEH 2016-12-1
• Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge- and Network-Based Increasing Returns http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/is-the-problem-one-of-insufficient-market-wages-inadequate-social-insurance-polanyian-disruption-of-patterns-of-life-.html APL AEG APT AOT TCEH 2016-12-17
• The One Best Way We Does the Tell of the History of the Twentieth Century... http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/the-one-best-way-we-does-the-tell-of-the-history-of-the-twentieth-century.html EaW GEH TCEH 2016-12-04
• The "Short" vs. the "Long" Twentieth Century... http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/12/the-short-vs-the-long-twentieth-century.html EaW GEH TCEH 2016-12-01
• American Patriotism: New England vs. Virginia vs. Ethno-Linguistic http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/11/american-patriotism-new-england-vs-virginia-vs-ethno-linguistic.html APL APT GEH AOT TPS TCEH 2016-11-23
• Central Banks, Neutral Policy, and Economic Structure http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/11/central-banks-and-economic-structure-since-2009-the-federal-reserve-and-other-global-north-central-banks-have-first-hes.html MGW TCEH 2016-11-23
• Trumpism on Trade as a Wild Goose Chase http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/11/trumpism-as-a-wild-goose-chase.html AEG APT EaW GEH AOT TCEH 2016-11-23
• Fiscal Policy in the New Normal: IMF Panel http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/11/imf-panel-fiscal-policy-in-the-new-normal-partial-transcript.html APT GEH MGW TCEH TPS 2016-11-19

Slouching Towards Utopia?: The Economic History of the Long Twentieth Century

Introduction

• The Multi-Millennial Perspective
• The Rough, Quantitative Perspective
• Human evolution and human sociability
• Gift exchange, market economies, lineages, and other control devices
• The long Agrarian Age: plow, sword, book, Malthus, and technology
• Gunpowder empires and commercial revolution
  • Why is there even a western European civilization in the first place?
  • Integrated social power--political, maritime, commercial, religious, technological--Venice and Genoa--and seaborne empires
  • Guns, germs, and steel
• Industrial Revolution
  • Exceptional Britain
  • The acceleration of growth in the enlightenment
  • The spread and development of British industrial technologies
• Modern Economic Growth
  • Other roads to Modern Economic Growth?
  • Our destiny--Malthus banished or delayed, and where is the Great Filter?

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