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Weekend Reading: Daniel P. Tompkins: What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Human Capital

Daniel P. Tompkins: What the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Human Capital: “Unsupervised, cooperative Athenians developed an economy…
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J. Bradford DeLongJun 6, 2015

Today’s Economic History: Matthew Yglesias: Surplus content: “Keynes on bubbles…

…I think Chapter 22 of the General Theory is enduringly relevant:
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J. Bradford DeLongJun 5, 2015

Étienne Mantoux: End of “The Calumniated Peace: The Economic Consequences of John Maynard Keynes”…

Étienne Mantoux says: Britain and America must allow France to impose a satisfactory peace upon Nazi Germany in 1945 — one that places…
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J. Bradford DeLongJun 2, 2015

Refereeing Mantoux-Keynes

Note to Self: Rereading Etienne Mantoux: La Paix Calomniée, ou les Conséquences Économiques de M. Keynes. “The Calumniated Peace” of…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 29, 2015

Today’s Economic History: John Maynard Keynes on the Necessity of a Generous Peace After World War…

Note to self:
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 26, 2015

Today’s Economic History: American Slavery Ideology One Generation After the Cotton Gin

Via Ta-Nehisi Coates: John C. Calhoun: Slavery a Positive Good: “I do not belong… to the school which holds that aggression is to be met by…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 17, 2015
Today’s Economic History: Caloric Intake in Northwest Europe

Today’s Economic History: Caloric Intake in Northwest Europe

Visual History of Decreasing World Hunger and Improving Food Provision:
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 15, 2015

Today’s Economic History: John Maynard Keynes’s Obituary of Alfred Marshall

John Maynard Keynes (1924): Obituary for Alfred Marshall: “ALFRED MARSHALL was born at Clapham on July 26, 1842…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 13, 2015

Today’s Economic History: Alfred Marshall on Aggregation

Must-Read: Alfred Marshall (1887): Aggregating Is Not Adding Up: “[Economists] paid almost exclusive attention to the motives of individual…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 13, 2015

Today’s Economic History: Arthur Burns: Secret Diary, 1969

Arthur Burns (August 21, 1969): “The recently announced [Nixon administration] welfare reform [plan] was to do away with food stamps (in…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 11, 2015

Today’s Economic History: Montagu Norman and the Czech Gold

Phillip Aldrick (2013): “Was Montagu Norman a Nazi sympathiser?” Torygraphhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/bank-of-england/10214541/Was…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 7, 2015

Hoisted from the Archives: The Uses of the University

Alma Mater Blogging: Greg Mankiw’s desire to move Harvard to someplace better adapted to human life than Massachusetts was triggered by:
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 5, 2015

Montagu Norman and the Bulwarks of Civilization: Today’s Economic History

Morgan partner Russell C. Leffingwell (1934): “Monty [Norman] says that Hitler and Schacht are the bulwarks of civilization in Germany and…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 4, 2015

A Note on Income Inequality, Its Social Cost, and the Political Economy of the Second Gilded Age

Over at Equitable Growth: I have never gotten it straight whether Vladimir Lenin actually did say: “The worse, the better.” But Eduardo…
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J. Bradford DeLongMay 4, 2015

Hoisted from Francis Fukuyama’s Archives from 2006: He Needs to Take a Much More Jaundiced View of…

Rereading:
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J. Bradford DeLongApr 30, 2015

Weekend Reading: Benito Mussolini (1932): What Is Fascism?

Benito Mussolini: What Is Fascism?:
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J. Bradford DeLongApr 26, 2015

(Early) Monday Smackdown: Corey Robin: When George Packer Gets Bored, I Get Scared

I think Corey Robin nails it here. My only objection is that he does not draw the links back to earlier, early twentieth-century attacks on…
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J. Bradford DeLongApr 26, 2015

Liveblogging World War II: April 20, 1945: Winston S. Churchill on Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Winston S. Churchill: Parliamentary Debates:
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J. Bradford DeLongApr 20, 2015

Weekend Reading: Vivian Gornick’s Review of ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life,’ by Rachel Holmes

Vivian Gornick: Review of ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life,’ by Rachel Holmes: “Three women possessed of extraordinary political talent loved men who…
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J. Bradford DeLongApr 20, 2015

Bruce Bartlett’s Complete History of the Laffer Curve from Ibn Khaldun to Ronald Reagan

If you haven’t read Bruce Bartlett’s complete history of the Laffer Curve, you should. The upshot is that you do not need special…
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J. Bradford DeLongApr 13, 2015
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