Brad DeLong's Morning Coffee Podcast
1) The Lighting Budget of Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson spent 7% of his income as Secretary of State to purchase as much illumination as is provided by a 60 W incandescent bulbs burning for a week.
2) The Fed Needs to Be Buying Recession Insurance—But Is Not
Should the U.S. fall Into recession soon, the Federal Reserve will have very little room to loosen policy to cushion the downturn. This is a large asymmetric risk. The right way to manage an asymmetri...Show More
3) Why Economic History?
Economic History is definitely, IMHO, the queen if not of all the social sciences at least of all of the subdisciplines of economics. This is why.
4) Remembering Suzanne Scotchmer
Those of us who do digital economics owe Suzanne Scotchman a lot as we stand on her gigantic shoulders. Those of us who seek a free and equal society are deeply indebted to Suzanne along other dimens...Show More
5) Your Own Private Intellectual Elysium
By judiciously muting and blocking people you can create a truly useful individual Internet feed. The problem is that that does nothing to produce a truly useful functioning intellectual community. An...Show More
6) Misapplied History: Aye Yie Yie!
No, the Roman Republic did not fall because its leaders like wild parties. Any further questions?
7) "Greeks to their Romans...”: The 20th Century Superpower Succession
20th century British Tory prime minister Harold Macmillan is most known not for anything he did but for a witty letter that he wrote to Dick Cressman, Director of Psychological Warfare at Allied Force...Show More
8) Keynes’s General Theory Contains Oddly Few Mentions of Fiscal Policy
In Keynes’s General Theory the question of why “it seems unlikely that the influence of banking policy on the rate of interest will be sufficient by itself…” is left hanging. The question...Show More
9) A Longer Version of a Question I Asked About Berkeley About the Dark Age of Economics We Are in: DeLong Morning Coffee
Professional Republicans are doing my discipline a world of hurt. Any more questions?
10) The “Let’s Be Agnostic About Race Science” Clowns Are In My Twitter Timeline Again: Delong Morning Coffee
Do your arithmetic, Sheeple! 1500 generations since radiation from the horn of Africa is really very little indeed.