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...“By the standards of all of the rest of human history, [this period was] much more marvellous than terrible,” writes DeLong....
...My fellow economics commentators Chris Giles and Martin Wolf have looked at the tax and spending plans of Truss and her chancellor, Kwasi Kwarteng, and put them both down as gamblers with the UK economy...
...We’ve got Brad DeLong’s book Slouching Towards Utopia, which is a sort of economic history of the long 20th century, as he defines it....
...Chris Martin: For recovery, the UK economy needs to maintain growth of at least 2.5 per cent for a few years....
...Elsewhere on Wednesday, – DeLong: NAFTA and other trade deals have not gutted American manufacturing — period. – Chicken feet, China, and the possibilities for trade retaliation....
...Bradford DeLong shares musings from his new book with Stephen Cohen....
...Thanks to Brad Delong. I have corrected Kardashians for Cardassians, but it certainly made sense either way.] MANU: The project for the book, it started out drinking beer with Chris....
...The most interesting I have seen is by Chris Dillow....
...Chris Dillow has written a thoughtful comment on O’Connor’s report, referring to the economics literature which, going back to Ronald Coase, shows that the efficient boundaries of the firm can be seen as...
...Paul Spinrad (h/t Brad DeLong) tells the fascinating history of socks since knitting was invented ca 250AD....
...The FT's Chris Giles had already documented the windfalls coming the chancellor's way....
...The Yes camp: spending less when times are lean is prudent, says Chris Giles For evidence of the folly of allowing government deficits to remain high indefinitely, look no further than Japan....
...asked Chris Krueger, an analyst at Guggenheim Securities. “Yellen is the safe and easy choice.”...
...[3] Interestingly DeLong and Summers argue that in normal times the multiplier should be assumed to be zero....
...This is an edited transcript of an interview with Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority, by Chris Giles, economics editor of the Financial Times....
...Last week, Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said talks with Richard Shelby, the ranking Republican, had failed....
...“I don’t see much connection between the financial crisis and the abolition of Glass-Steagall,” says Brad DeLong at Berkeley University....
...Leuven, Belgium Brad DeLong,Professor of Economics, U.C....
...Brad DeLong makes the point that if stakeholders are willing to make these sacrifices, there is no problem. True enough....
...- Brad DeLong mulls over the Bush administration’s social democracy detour, and wonders whether it’s smart or dumb....
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