About Brad DeLong

Brad DeLong is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also Chair of Berkeley's "Political Economy of Industrial Societies" International and Area Studies major, and Associate Director of Berkeley's COINS center. From 1993-1995 he worked for the Clinton Administration's Department of the Treasury as one of the Deputy Assistant Secretaries for Economic Policy. He has taught at Boston University, Harvard University, and MIT in addition to Berkeley. He tries to focus his research on economic history, business cycles, economic growth, comparative technological revolutions, and the history of economic thought.

He has a substantial internet presence as well. His website can be found at www.j-bradford-delong.net and his (recently moved) weblog at delong.typepad.com.

Comments

[praktike]

He may have a substantial internet presence, but he needs to fix his website, because nobody likes it when the RSS feed doesn't match the new installation, or when clicking on permalink opens a new window.

That said, the Professor is brilliant and an all-around good guy.

[Linkmeister]

And, his pet has a (disputed) claim to being the World's Silliest Dog.

[Allen K.]

"nobody likes it ... when clicking on permalink opens a new window."

Surely we can agree that paternalism is sometimes a good thing? I mean, yes, in the abstract people might open new windows on their own. But in the real world, very few of them know how to use the right mouse button, and indeed there are some poor benighted souls with no right button at all.

Won't you think of the Mac users, desperate for a new window, and weren't provident enough to attend some fancy Northeastern school that might teach them to use the control key while clicking?

[RSA]

If this is to be permanent boilerplate, "poilcy" -> "policy".

[pgl]

Link - Jonah Goldberg seems to think all good conservatives are dog owners and only lefties would bother to own a cat. Brad is a conservative! OK, I own two mutts so no cat blogging over at Angrybear (besides I'm afraid AB would eat the cat). All kidding aside, I'm just curious if this was an appropriate reaction to Bush's comment about that Democratic economist - the Pozen fellow. Is he really an economist? We know Brad is - even before reading his always fair and balanced blog.

[Linkmeister]

pgl, why would you take Jonah Goldberg's views as accurate on anything?

The reason for the dispute is that I'd match up my 12-year-old German shorthaired pointer up against anyone's dog in a claim to that title.

[Jim S]

Not only does my 10 year old Toy Fox Terrier dispute that title but so does the 3 year old Schnauzer and the 75 pound, 2 year old mutt who argue over the title within my household. We are talking about a TFT whose idea about the proper end to the day is to start by being petted, lean back to encourage the chest being scratched, lean further back to try for the tummy and then just fall backwards in case you couldn't reach the tummy to scratch it good enough for her and then fall asleep in that position.

[MTC]

Is not the good doctor also "the author of the first blog post ever to be used as a reference in a Federal Reserve research paper," to whit:

DeLong, B., 2004. John Taylor Blasts Off for the Gamma Quadrant, in Brad De-Long’s Semi-Daily Journal: A Weblog. Downloaded from http://www.j-bradforddelong.
net/movable type/2004-2 archives/000519.html?

[piotrb]

While DeLong blog is a very good blog, it could be even better.

In particular, the posting of rather disparate material in the same column could be avoided. For example:

(*) general information about Dr. Brad DeLong could be in a separate file that would have a permanent link somewhere on the top of the blog page,

(**) reading assignments for students and other course materials (like new Midterm dates) could be placed on another page, again with a permanent link somewhere on the top of the main blog page.

All other postings properly belong to the blog, and, again, they make a very good blog.

[Jackmormon]

That seems like a good answer to the long-standing Crooked Timber argument about how to count blogging on academic CVs.

[P.M.Lawrence]

Professor DeLong may or may not have anything to do with the mysterious uninhabited De Long Islands, described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Long_Islands.

[james governor]

hey Brad i have a question for you becase i didn't know who else to ask/ the other day i was talking to a Republican. they were doing the usual democrats have no arguments or ideas meme. anyhow i actually thought his question (the one he insisted i answer) was very dull, but it was true i couldn't answer it.

on Tax he made a claim
that 80% of tax is paid for by the top 5% of the people

and asked how i think it should or could be better aligned.

i was actually pretty skeptical. i thought the great mass paid the majority of tax. but if he was right about the numbers, what *is* a position on this? what might be considered an equitable spread of the tax burden?

i also dont think he was taking security into account.

i am a bit of a (hardcore) leftie. i tend to think it should be flat rate and we should all pay and the IRS should enforce more agressively.

why should the rich pay more? because they earn more.

but i am a radical leftie- in my mind taxes should pay for universal education and universal healthcare (strip out the insurance company scalpers and the revenues would go a lot further...)

one last thing as a thought experiment question- has anyone posited the positely loonie idea of 100% inheritance tax as the basis for a radical meritocracy. All the right wing folks that talk about self-sufficiency and refuse to aknowledge any advantages in education and so on due to class, race and other factors. shouldnt' they support the individual to make the most of themselves, rather than just by an accident of birth? the only way to guarantee it is to do away with wealth "cascading (and concentrating) through the generations".

[Auros]

There was a link up there to the "John Taylor Blasts Off" post, and it appears to have been misformatted. Correct link is:
http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004-2_archives/000519.html

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