Hints and tips:
...) — Generative AI as Shakespearean tragedy (Gary Marcus) — It’s not what the world needs right now (The Baffler) — British Placename Mapper...
...Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Centuryby J Bradford DeLong, Basic Books £30 “In 1870 a major shift took place for humanity....
...“By the standards of all of the rest of human history, [this period was] much more marvellous than terrible,” writes DeLong....
...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....
...Mr Kudlow, who replaces Gary Cohn as director of the White House’s National Economic Council, is no empty vessel....
...– Apparently, “Gary Cohn is now the leading candidate to succeed Yellen”. – DeLong with fifteen theses on the “The Wealth of Humans” and “After Piketty”. Features occasional AI optimism....
...– DeLong vs Noahpinion on labour’s falling share of GDP. And Dean Baker suggests we “look at the labor share of net domestic product....
...Numbers news Brad DeLong points out that when the stock market dropped by a quarter in 1987, Alan Greenspan made interest rates go down by . . . two percentage points!...
...Why Obama should pick Summers to lead the Fed – Brad DeLong...
...Related links: Why QE is being mis-sold – FT Alphaville The decline of safe assets – FT Alphaville Show me the collateral blogging – Brad DeLong The balance sheet recession, charted - FT Alphaville Jedi...
...This isn’t the judge’s first foray into the blog world: He already co-writes one with the Nobel-winning economist Gary Becker....
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