VoiceFlow Chatbot ..read more

DeLongTODAY: China Stands Up: 1978-2020: Part III http://delongtoday.com https://youtu.be/DXNCE__FjXk https://www.icloud.com/keynote/0FewWYNr-v0NT4Mlf-iw7Sa0w https://www.bradford-delong.com/2021/05/delongtoday-china-stands-up-1978-2020-part-iii-china-policy.html https://github.com/braddelong/public-files/blob/master/delongtoday-2021-05-14-china-iii.pptx 2021-05-14 ..read more

Noah Smith & Brad DeLong's 30:00 < [Length of Weekly Podcast] < 60:00 <https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/47874.rss> Key Insights: Economic arguments against higher taxes that may have been somewhat plausible back in the days of 70% or so maximum individual and 40% or so maximum capital gains tax rates simply do not apply now. Right-wing parties that don't think they can credibly make the argument that cosseting their core constituencies is necessary for rapid economic growth search for some non-economic cleavage in which the rich and the right-thinking poor, or the r ..read more

An 11 minute IN FOCUS interview for tbs eFM in Korea...   Brad DeLong: INTERVIEW: Inflation Concerns in the US Following Secretary Treasury Janet: ‘Apple Podcasts: tbs eFM This Morning: 0514 IN FOCUS… <https://podcasts.apple.com/kr/podcast/0514-in-focus-2-inflation-concerns-in-us-following/id1038822609?i=1000521665790&l=en>   <https://braddelong.substack.com/p/interview-inflation-concerns-in-the-0b5> ..read more

Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember... First: An all-in commitment to weblogging has been extraordinarily successful for Cory Doctorow. But for most of us the connections between the current flow, the past stock, and the larger projects that he has managed to maintain have eluded us. We can either manage the flow, curate the stock, or ship large projects—only one at a time: Cory Doctorow: The Memex Method. When Your Commonplace Book Is a Public Database: ‘The very act of recording your actions and impressions is itself powerfully mnemonic…. The genius of the blog was… i ..read more

Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember...   First: The world would have been much better advised fifteen months ago to, rather than listening to the infectious-disease community, WHO, & CDC, to have simply observed: This thing evolved it batcaves. Avoid batcaves. Make sure that the respiratory environment in which you breathe is as close to being the exact opposite of a batcave as you can—ventilation, outdoors, distanced, masks: Zeynep Tufekci: The Few Sentences That Explain Much of What Went Wrong With Our Pandemic Response: ‘How could it be so wrong, even after m ..read more

I always wish I had done something more with this...   Richard Evans (2000), Lying About Hitler: History, the Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial (New York: Basic Books: 0465021522).  Richard Evans (1997), In Defense of History (New York: Norton: 0393319598).   The Irving Case For about a decade Richard Evans's (1987) book Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years 1830-1910 had been on my "read someday" list. But at the beginning of 2000 I ran across his name again. He was to be an expert witness for author Deborah Lipstadt in her de ..read more

BRIEFLY NOTED: For 2021-05-12 We; + A Guess at the State of the Plague in India, & the Right Wing Long Con     First: A Snippet from a Dialogue: The Current Plague in India: Axiothea: How much worse are things in India than the statistics the Indian government is reporting say? Parmenides: We do think that here in the United States we have had 900,000 rather than 600,000 deaths—out of a total caseload of perhaps 60 million, perhaps 120 million. How bad are things in India right now, really? And how bad are they going to get? Aesclepius: We do not know. We guess that true plagu ..read more

Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember... First: Here we see a striking difference between Paul Krugman and Larry Summers. Krugman sees models as intuition pumps—and believes strongly, very strongly, that if you cannot make a simple model of it, it is probably wrong. Summers believes that our models are, at best, filing systems (and at worst tools for misleading the unwary)—and that the right way to think about the economy is as, in some way, a two-state system, with expansion being one state and recession the other, so that you cannot halt an expansion without tipping the econom ..read more

Things that went whizzing by that I want to remember... First: Here we see a striking difference between Paul Krugman and Larry Summers. Krugman sees models as intuition pumps—and believes strongly, very strongly, that if you cannot make a simple model of it, it is probably wrong. Summers believes that our models are, at best, filing systems (and at worst tools for misleading the unwary)—and that the right way to think about the economy is as, in some way, a two-state system, with expansion being one state and recession the other, so that you cannot halt an expansion without tipping the econom ..read more