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Bradford DeLong argued that the [...]
The subtitle is What Happens When Other Countries Have the Money and the authors are Stephen S. Cohen and Brad DeLong. Here is an excerpt:
The Asian export-led growth model must -- over time -- transform itself to domestic consumption and prosperity models. The American borrow-and-import model will also have [...]
He writes, among other things:
Is The Administration's Economic Thinking Incoherent?: Brad DeLong parses my piece today on the administration's struggle to create jobs while still minding the deficit and pronounces himself "increasingly bewildered about administration thinking."...
Now, obviously, not every member of the administration and every Democrat [...]
Matthew Kahn writes:
The Return of a Minor League Blogger: I twice had the chance to sit down and chat with Brad Delong. He was blogging so I didn't want to bug him but we had a chance to talk and I enjoyed it...
But I wasn't blogging! I was [...]
Will Wilkinson writes::
Anything at All?: Brad DeLong writes:
At this point, anything that boosts the government’s deficit over the next two years passes the benefit-cost test–anything at all.
30,000 more troops to Afghanistan? Anything?
He says it with special emphasis, as though he’s [...]
Stephen Bainbridge writes, apropos of (as best I can see) nothing at all:
ProfessorBainbridge.com: I don't read Kos or Brad DeLong or, for that matter, Brookings Institute position papers very often...
Let me say that in my view this is a serious mistake: reading people with whom one does not already' [...]
Things that I have not yet properly categorized:
20091202 green buildings.pdf 20091202 to market to market.pdf 20091123 delong pa.pdf 20091121 political losers ii.pdf 20091121 political losers.pdf 20091123 delong [...]James Hamilton thoughtfully lays out (HT: Brad DeLong) the risks from larger federal budget deficits. Superb.
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Mark-My-Beliefs-to-Market Time: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal: I am reading Michael Mussa's brand-new very short book on the latest Argentinian financial crisis [Michael Mussa (2002), Argentina and the Fund: From Triumph to Tragedy (Washington: Institute for International Economics: 088132339X)]. In The Importance of Being Earnest, [...]
There have been many posts on this topic lately, start with Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong if you need to catch up. Today I have a few simple points:
1. Even if "it is fine to borrow more" is the most likely scenario, it is not the only scenario. Let's take [...]
1. Air Genius Gary Leff is hailed by CNN.
2. Good post on interest rates (though I am not sure I agree with it). Brad DeLong comments. Critically important stuff and two of the best recent economics blog posts, in some time.
The best of the rest of the economics web
TODAY'S recommended economics writing:• Metropolitan budgets are on the brink of catastrophe. (New Republic) • Income and poverty in American counties, nicely mapped. (Economix)• Basic background deficit math. (Brad DeLong) • Google invents a city, puts it on Google maps. [...]
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Out of running room: I THINK Brad DeLong misread this post of mine from yesterday as a shot at him. It wasn't. I agree with him that the constraints which seem to be draping themselves across American policy options are worrisome. I was more focused on those' [...]
Free exchange is trying to help find a better macro policy
I THINK Brad DeLong misread this post of mine from yesterday as a shot at him. It wasn't. I agree with him that the constraints which seem to be draping themselves across American policy options are worrisome. I [...]
People forgetting how bad things were last fall
BRAD DELONG got himself a lot of links yesterday by writing that efforts to save the banking industry last fall, by eroding public trust in government, increased the odds of a replay of the Great Depression from virtually nothing to 5%. [...]
The best of the rest of the economics web
TODAY'S recommended economics writing:• This makes sense, but it's interesting to imagine what the economic impact might be of undoing the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts during the 2011 to 2013 time frame. (Economist Mom, via Brad DeLong) • It [...]
[grgahero.org] is 49 Luo grandmothers and great-grandmothers raising 150 AIDS-orphaned grandchildren and great-grandchildren in Ahero, Kenya. They sell their baskets to buy animals, schoolbooks, and extra food through this one-woman zero-overhead NGO.
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Krugman and DeLong have been attacking Mankiw and Meltzer for mocking the “jobs saved” metric of the Obama Administration. Here is Krugman:
Brad DeLong catches Allan Meltzer claiming that there’s something nonsensical about the Obama administration making estimates of jobs saved thanks to its policies. But it’s not just Meltzer [...]
PEIS--Notes on Reform...: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal: Consider PEIS 101, Modern Theories of Political Economy. As I see it, the course has three objectives:
To teach students that the classical theoretical traditions in social theory or political economy--chiefly those of Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de [...]
Audio: Reed Public Policy Lecture (11.07.2009 03-14-36 PM)
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Another Bad Employment Report - J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles: "If we find ourselves in a financial-meltdown world where unemployment or inflation kisses 10%--then I will unhappily concede, and say that Greenspanism was a mistake." - BDL, 16 July 2008
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