The New York Times:
« Hoisted from the Archives (2007): My Review of Alan Greenspan's "The Age of Turbulence" | Main | Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? Yet Another David Brooks-New York Times Edition »
July 01, 2012
Liveblogging World War II: July 1, 1942
|
|
Comments
Contribute to Funding Grasping Reality
------------------------------Search
Definitely Worth Reading...
Highlighted
Probably Worth Reading...
Recent Posts
- Live from Trumpland: James Fallows:
- Live from Trumpland: Josh Barro:
- Live from the Electorate: Nate
- Charles Steindel: What Killed The
- Monday Smackdown: There's Something in the Water at the New York TImes
- Monday Smackdown: New York Times "Delete Your Newspaper" Edition
- Must-Read: Noah Smith: Economics Has
- Current Links
- Must-Read: Thomas Baekdal: What Killed
- Comment of the Day: Luke:
Spotlight Posts
-
The Stakes of the Helicopter Money Debate: A PrimerThe swelling wave of argument and discussion around "helicopter money" has two origins: First, as Harvard's Robert Barro says: there has been no recovery since 2010. The unemployment rate here in the U.S. has come down, yes. But the unemployment rate has come down primarily because people who were unemployed...
-
Musings on the Science of "Scaling": Blum Center U.C. BerkeleyThis is not at all the so-called "replication crisis". The devices built work as assessed by all engineering yardsticks: cheap, easy to maintain, rugged, and simple to operate. The interventions conducted work as assessed by all social science standards: they pass gold-standard RCT tests with effects that are statistically and...
-
Brookings Productivity Puzzle Panel: VIdeo_[The Productivity Puzzle][]_: >On September 9, 2016 the Initiative on Business and Public Policy and the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings hosted a forum on the policy implications of the growth slowdown. [The Productivity Puzzle]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dojtWYrjnbc&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=BrookingsInstitution
-
The Long-Run Economic Trend Is Our Friend: No Longer so Fresh at Project Syndicate**[Over at Project Syndicate][1]: The Long-Run Economic Trend is Our Friend** These are days of grave disappointment at the state of the world. Sinister forces of fanatic religion-linked murder that we thought had been largely scotched by 1750 are back. They have been joined by and are reinforcing forces of...
-
Economists for Trump!They are the usual suspects--people who have been 100% wrong since at least 2007, and yet lack any intellectual curiosity to try to rethink their view of the world and so understand why things have developed differently than they had thought they would: Eugene Fama in the lead, with June...
-
Night Thoughts on Dynamic Scoring: Hoisted from a Year Ago****: [Night Thoughts on Dynamic Scoring](http://www.bradford-delong.com/2015/09/night-thoughts-on-dynamic-scoring.html): **Live from DuPont Circle:** Last Thursday two of the smartest participants at last Friday's Brookings Panel on Economic Activity conference--Martin Feldstein and Glenn Hubbard--claimed marvelous things from the enactment of JEB!'s proposed tax cuts and his regulatory reform program. They claimed: * that it...
-
The Clones of Jim Tobin vs. the Gravitational Pull of Chicago: A Paul Krugman Production...The highly-esteemed **Mark Thoma** sends us to **Paul Krugman**. In praise of real science: "Some people... always ask, 'Is this the evidence talking, or my preconceptions?' And you want to be one of those people...". Paul's most aggressive claim is that our economics profession in 2007 would have done a...
-
Musings on "Just Deserts" and the Opening of Plato's Republic**Musings on "Just Deserts" and the Opening of [Plato's Republic][]:** Greg Mankiw [Defending the 1%][] proposes what he calls the "just deserts" theory of social justice: *What you have gained and hold by playing by the economic rules is yours: social justice consists in not cheating or injuring people, and...
-
Files Related to the Hutchins-Brookings Productivity Festival**UPDATE:** Relatively happy now: _[Brookings Productivity Festival: DeLong Edited Transcript (September 9, 2016)][]_ [Brookings Productivity Festival: DeLong Edited Transcript (September 9, 2016)]: http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/09/brookings-productivity-festival-delong-edited-transcript-september-9-2016.html ---- I am not happy with any of the presentations/notes I prepared for this conference. But, for what it's worth, here is the organizers' precis, and my...
-
Brookings Productivity Festival: DeLong Edited Transcript (September 9, 2016)_[The Productivity Puzzle: How Can We Speed Up the Growth of the Economy?][]_ [The Productivity Puzzle: How Can We Speed Up the Growth of the Economy?]: https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-productivity-puzzle-how-can-we-speed-up-the-growth-of-the-economy/ ---- First, I need to stop flashing to the dystopian future which Bronwyn here has made me imagine. It is one in which...
-
Talking Points for Fox News Business This Afternoon (September 15, 2016: 2 PM)...**(1) How well does HRC do her job, really?** * Consensus judgment well-expressed by Donald Trump: * “she really works hard, and I think she does a good job...” * “I know Hillary and I think she’d make a great president...” * “smart, tough and a very nice person...” *...
-
Very Brief Musings on DemocracyCf.: **Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels**: _[Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government][]_ [Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government]: http://amzn.to/2cxeQfg (Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels (2016): _Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government_ (Princeton: Princeton University...
-
The New York TImes and John F. Burns Suppressing the News That's Fit to Print: Hoisted from the ArchivesThe memory of man runneth not to the day that I could trust that with reasonable probability anything new in the _New York Times_ would be true: [Some of the News That's Fit to Print (Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?)](http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/01/some_of_the_new.html) (January 29, 2006): In Slate,...
-
The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: August 31-September 13, 2006* **2006-09-13**: _[Un-Atlantic Economic History][]_: It is a fair criticism that we Berkeley Economics people think Economic History is Atlantic Economic History, and overwhelmingly North Atlantic Economic History. Well, now I have a new course's worth of readings to compile--and I know I will have read only an appallingly small...
-
Monday Smackdown: Sam Tanenhaus DepartmentSam Tanenhaus--who has a substantial history of whitewashing wingnuts--calls for reporters to... not do their jobs. They should not cover what Donald Trump says and does. They should not cover what Trump said and did. Why not? Out of fear of some political payback or electoral backlash: MSM is making...
-
Weekend Reading: Paul Krugman (2011): Mr. Keynes and the Moderns**Paul Krugman** (2011): _[Mr Keynes and the Moderns][]_: >It’s a great honour to be asked to give this talk, especially because I’m arguably not qualified to do so.[1][] I am, after all, not a Keynes scholar, nor any kind of serious intellectual historian. Nor have I spent most of my...
-
911: Never ForgetAs Benjamin Franklin said: "It is a rising, not a setting sun." And one more thing we should never forget: _[Presidential Daily Brief: August 6, 2001][]_: Plus: **Scott Erik Kaufman**: [What we should never forget on 9/11](http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2015/09/what-we-should-never-forget-on-911): Shared with permission from Siva Vaidhyanathan... [Presidential Daily Brief: August 6, 2001]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_Ladin_Determined_To_Strike_in_US
-
Slow Growth in Productivity: What Do We Know About "Why?" and "What Is To Be Done?"—LongJ. Bradford DeLong :: U.C. Berkeley, NBER, and WCEG :: 2016-09-09 :: | _[The productivity puzzle: How can we speed up the growth of the economy?][]_ [The productivity puzzle: How can we speed up the growth of the economy?]: https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-productivity-puzzle-how-can-we-speed-up-the-growth-of-the-economy/ ---- ##Slow Growth in Productivity: What Do We Know About...
-
Slow Growth in Productivity: Can Anything Be Done?J. Bradford DeLong :: U.C. Berkeley, NBER, and WCEG :: 2016-09-09 :: ---- ##Slow Growth in Productivity: Can Anything Be Done? J. Bradford DeLong :: U.C. Berkeley, NBER, and WCEG :: 2016-09-09 :: **What Are We Talking About Here?:** * Perceived poor performance of the American economy. * Measurement issues...
-
Follow-Up Questions on the Philosophy of Probability: Hoisted from the ArchivesEvery once in a while I think I really ought to think some more about Knightian uncertainty. And I invariably bounce off into something like this... ****: [Tuesday Virtual Office Hours: Follow-Up Questions on the Philosophy of Probability: Live from Cafe Milano CCXXXIII: August 5, 2014](http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2014/08/tuesday-virtual-office-hours-follow-up-questions-on-the-philosophy-of-probability.html): (Roughly) the way [Cosma...
J. Bradford DeLong—that's me—is a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a weblogger for the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, and was in the Clinton administration a deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury.
My best work extends from business cycle dynamics through economic growth, behavioral finance, political economy, economic history, international finance to the history of economic thought and other topics.
Among my 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."
I have signed up with the Leigh Speakers' Bureau for non-academic and non-public service talks...
A Rising Sun
"I now know it is a rising, not a setting, sun" --Benjamin Franklin, 1787
