Hints and tips:
...Brad DeLong: Well, starting in 1870, history changed into a very different register....
...The result was a dysfunctional muddle, which John Maynard Keynes tried to sort out....
...The British economist, John Odling-Smee, was a senior IMF official engaged in this endeavour in the 1990s....
...Brad DeLong from the University of California, Berkeley argues in our latest Economists Exchange that the US is now an “anti-globalisation outlier” and no longer seen as a place where the future is forged...
...John Philpott: Not as tough as currently expected....
...john.plender@ft.com...
...Bush, did Mitt Romney, did John McCain say a single good word about anything Barack Obama ever did over the course of eight solid years?”...
...(This is the argument Lawrence Summers and Bradford DeLong advanced for saying fiscal stimulus could pay for itself in 2012 — when of course it was much more plausible to argue that those conditions held...
...First, according to Brad DeLong, a mistake in the algebra means the effect is overstated....
...John Maynard Keynes published The Economic Consequences of the Peace, his brutal excoriation of the Paris Peace Conference, in 1919....
...– DeLong goes to town on John Cochrane’s healthcare predictions. You’ll get the idea from the opening salvo: “No....
...– John Cochrane: “the corporate tax should be zero. Not just a zero rate, but the tax should be abolished....
...– John Cochrane’s suggestion for a progressive VAT. – Tax and “the rich” in the UK. – Trade and technology duke it out at CUNY, featuring Krugman, DeLong, Autor and Harrison....
...– In which DeLong is annoyed at being paired with John Taylor. – David Andolfatto vs Lawrence White on the Fed’s balance sheet/duration risk....
...– DeLong: Three, four… many secular stagnations! – John Hempton: A puzzle for the risk manager. – Patrick Chovanec on Trump and the need for cool heads....
...Elsewhere on Friday, – Wherein Hayek agrees with DeLong that just because you’re rich, it doesn’t mean you deserve to be. – The philosophical failings of forecasting....
...As is often the case, notice by more popular blogs will have helped (notably Cowen and DeLong) but his prominence reflects his talent....
...Brad DeLong’s new essay at Vox.com is a must-read synopsis of the efforts to measure the answer. In sum, the answer is “very little”....
...– John Cassidy on HRC’s plans to squeeze the ultra-rich. – And somewhat awkwardly: How Democrats killed their populist soul....
...As the economist Brad DeLong pointed out in a recent essay, that is true in Germany, too, which has seen a fall in factory employment almost as sharp as in the US (the same holds for Japan)....
...I recommend a recent essay by John Kay on the subject, which also makes the politically important connection with wounded masculinity....
...Bradford DeLong of Berkeley concludes that it is quite modest....
...John Williams has written the most thoughtful piece on monetary policy that has come out of the Federal Reserve in a long time....
..., John Williams) have lately taken a more hawkish line about the need to “normalise” the level of interest rates [1]....
...Emanuele Felice reviews the latest update of the Maddison Project (hat tip: Brad DeLong), the extraordinarily ambitious research project to establish historical GDP statistics....
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