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PSA: Worth Reading

While Henry and Brad DeLong noted some more silly prattling from a brain-dead economist, AB readers and those wanting to maintain their sanity* will prefer The New Decembrists, and new blog from The...

What Dubner and Levitt couldn't do in four years...

Brad DeLong does in less than a weekend. He is as enchanted as Robert was*:My personal favorite is a giant parasol 18,000 miles in diameter at L1 to absorb and then reradiate a chunk of sunlight in...

Brad DeLong is Correct

All right, I give up. I've reviewed for the Washington Post Book World, I consider some of their work interesting, and can almost forgive them for publishing Ruth Marcus, Charles Krauthammer, Anne...

Brad's Draft Lecture

Robert WaldmannBrad DeLong just posted a very interesting Draft Henry George lecture. It contains ideas which I haven't found written down before by Brad or by Krugman. I strongly recommend reading...

When in Crisis, Insult Sociologists?

Via Brad DeLong, Eric Falkenstein praises Macroeconomics with faint damns:Macroeconomics is the triumph of hope over experience, and has been no more successful than sociology.Insulting our betters...

Verklaerte KristolNacht

Brad DeLong finds the quote that tells you everything you need to know about the origins of the Neoconservative Movement:Among the core social scientists around The Public Interest there were no...

Coming Soon from Major Economists Near You

Pete Davis, Mark Thoma (who at least has the decency to phrase it in the form of a question), N. Gregory Mankiw, and Brad DeLong explain why there should not be any penalties against providers of...

Thanks to Ben Bernanke, Ben Bernanke Doesn't Need to be Reappointed as Fed Chair

by Tom BozzoBack in 2005, I argued at Old Marginal Utility that "Greenspan exceptionalism" was not very well founded in that observers rarely engaged in a proper counterfactual analysis of how well...

curiouser and curiouser capitalist

Because a world without Leonard Cohen songs readily available to all in Frisian is not a world we want to live in:plagiarism confession: This post is entirely copied from Brad DeLong who quoted...

Silliness from Time Magazine

Via Brad DeLong, I see Time magazine has identified the "25 people to 'blame' for the financial crisis." [my sarcastic quotes on blame; Time appears to be serious]Amazingly, none of TWX's (mostly...