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No longer posting here. At mastodon.social/@delong. Subscribe to braddelong.substack.com. Buy “Slouching Towards Utopia" bit.ly/3pP3Krk
- Replying to @wwwojtekkYou asked: <github.com/braddelong/pub…> Marx the economist was among the very first to recognize that the fever-fits of financial crisis and depression that afflict modern market economies were not a passing phase or something that could be easily cured, but rather a deep... 1/
- Aiming today for social media supremacy in Business-Economics-History. Launch for “Slouching Towards Utopia” <bit.ly/3pP3Krk> If I have any social-network credit with you at all, I want to spend it; if I don’t may I borrow some?: Please like, retweet, **and** reply
- Slouching Towards Utopia, forthcoming from Basic Books on September 6. 1st sentence: What I call the “long twentieth century” started with the watershed-boundary crossing events of around 1870—the triple emergence of globalization, the industrial research lab, and the... 1/
- Trump tariffs and mass deportation, taken together, would be the largest adverse supply shock ever inflicted on the American economy. They would in all likelihood generate a combination of inflation and depression America has never before seen. Our macroeconomic troubles... 1/
- I see the late David Graeber is in the news today. I do not trust anything he ever wrote. Let me tell you why. Let me pick a chapter at random from Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years… I land on chapter 12… I start reading… I come to the third... 1/
- Replying to @Lis_Smith and @PeteButtigiegTime for you to step back, take a deep breath, and quit: this campaign has turned you into an evil person. And you need to leave. And I say this as someone who had thought that PG was one of his favorites.
- Replying to @nhannahjones and @JHabeckYou can feel ashamed about America's using the A-bomb **without** telling lies about what the Japanese government had decided, and about how much the US government knew about it. This is really, really not a hill you want to die on...
- Replying to @delongI think it is fair to say that the already-broken American political public sphere has become significantly more broken since November 8, 2018. On the center and to the left, those like me in what used to proudly call itself the Rubin Wing of the Democratic Party—so-called 1/
- Replying to @delongI think that the first piece of advice to give is: restrict yourself to #nevertrump. Trumpists are either morons, grifters, or deluded. Those who have made accomodation with neo-fascism to any substantial degree are not people you want around—they will, for one reason or 12/
- Replying to @beyerstein @nycsouthpaw and @statepressOf course the story doesn't give the AS team credit. The culture of the NYTimes is: "whenever possible, be the assholes you hated when you were in your 20s"...
- I am extremely gratified to find myself at #6 on the NYT nonfiction bestsellers after launch week! And today is the UK launch for “Slouching Towards Utopia”: <fal.cn/3rUOr>. (In US: <bit.ly/3pP3Krk> I am almost as gratified that Martin Wolf likes it. So… 1/
