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"I now know it is a rising, not a setting, sun" --Benjamin Franklin, 1787
J. Bradford DeLong, Professor of Economics at U.C Berkeley, a Research Associate of the NBER, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Chair of Berkeley's Political Economy major.
Among his best works are: "Is Increased Price Flexibility Stabilizing?" "Productivity Growth, Convergence, and Welfare," "Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets," "Equipment Investment and Economic Growth," "Princes and Merchants: European City Growth Before the Industrial Revolution," "Why Does the Stock Market Fluctuate?" "Keynesianism, Pennsylvania-Avenue Style," "America's Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s," "American Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression," "Review of Robert Skidelsky (2000), John Maynard Keynes, volume 3, Fighting for Britain," "Between Meltdown and Moral Hazard: Clinton Administration International Monetary and Financial Policy," "Productivity Growth in the 2000s," "Asset Returns and Economic Growth."
The Eighteen-Year-Old is going to college next year, which means that I need to think about making more money. (The idea that one might write checks to rather than receive checks from universities is now strange to me.) So I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau which also handles, among many others: Chris Anderson; Suzanne Berger; Michael Boskin; Kenneth Courtis; Clive Crook; Bill Emmott; Robert H. Frank; William Goetzmann; Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin; Paul Krugman; Bill McKibben; Paul Romer; Jeffrey Sachs; Robert Shiller;James Surowiecki; Martin Wolf; Adrian Wooldridge.
Prof. Delong:
I have printed, read and reread this article; "review of James Scott (1998), Seeing Like a State": "How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed" and also James Fallows: "How the World Works" and as a very green ( and unfortunately aged ) student I am trying to synthesize the two.
I also understand you are an advocate of free trade?
I am further somewhat confused by the date of Fallows article ( 1993) and it's appearance in your list of links for 2007-10-26.
I'd be grateful if you or anyone of this community could suggest what an untutored layman might read next.
[I would actually go read the two books: Scott's _Seeing Like a State_ entire, and Fallows's _Looking at the Sun_]
Your photo of Cliff Palace leads me to recommend this very readable synopsis of the Hisatsinom: House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest (Hardcover)
by Craig Childs (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/House-Rain-Tracking-Civilization-Southwest/dp/0316608173
Posted by: Ahab | October 28, 2007 at 08:36 AM