The app for independent voices
What I am teaching in my seminar these days: predatory thugs with spears and transitory economic booms with limits—agrarian-age antiquity as both domination and efflorescence:
Econ 196 :: Societies of Domination :: Pre-Class Assignment—do before 2026-02-15 23:59 PST
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DELONG’S GRASPING REALITY: Trying to make my readers—and myself—smarter. I think I am a go-to source to understand things economic in the past and in the present. Too online since 1995.
Currently featuring:
* Five Lies in Scott Bessent's Attacks on the Fed, & Three Delusions in His Failures to Understand All That NATO Has Done for Us <braddelong.substack.com…>
* "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Since 1870, Roughly One-Fifth of the Economy Is Transformed Every Thirty Years <braddelong.substack.com…>
* DRAFT: Notes on Human Division-of-Labor Globalization from Stone Tools to the Assembly Line: -750000 to 1945 <braddelong.substack.com…>
* Bubbles, Productive & Unproductive; Builders; & Bots: Why the AI Boom Isn’t One Story, But Rather the Vector Driving the AI Economy Is at Least 12-Dimensional <braddelong.substack.com…>
* Does Each of Us Have a Big Enough Brain to Compensate for Our Lack of Fangs, Claws, Sprinting Speed, & Dodging Quickness? <braddelong.substack.com…>
* Consequences of the Revolutions of 1848: Élite Recognition that "If Everything Is Going to Stay the Same, Everything Has to Change..." <braddelong.substack.com…>
* The Fourteen-Lion Parade <btps://braddelong.substack.com/p/fourteen-lion-parade>
* How We All Already Have Our Superintelligent AI-Assistants <braddelong.substack.com…>
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