Hi all, this is a pointer to direct you over to Substack. I’m moving the Econ Growth Blog over there, with the hopes of creating a little more interaction around it, the way Twitter used to function. The first post is here, and that has a subscribe button in it. You can get the RSS feed of the Substack here. Or just subscribe right here: Thanks for following me over!|
Brad Delong recently published his long-gestating economic history of the long 20th century, Slouching Towards Utopia. If you are reading this blog, you are almost certainly aware of that, and I would guess the probability that you’ve read it (or are reading it) are around 50/50. It has garnered well-deserved high praise from a variety of people. To avoid just repeating what everyone else is saying, let me simply say that it is a necessary book to read if you are at all interested in the su...|
The figure below is from the Hamilton Project but you could have found something similar in a lot of evaluations of the relief bill. It compares the projecte...| growthecon.com
If you’re wondering what I’m attempting to do in these posts, then join the club. I’m just sort of grasping around for a way of thinking about the aggregate ...| growthecon.com
Well, better late than never, I guess? About six months ago I started playing around with some posts on the slowdown in European economic growth. The first d...| growthecon.com
This is the second part of a deep(ish) dive into the growth slowdown in Europe. The first installment looked at the timing and basics of the slowdown. This p...| growthecon.com
Before jumping into the proper post, some housekeeping. Thanks to a combination of Twitter’s situation and not missing Twitter while I took a hiatus this yea...| growthecon.com
Well, after a massive break from most social media and this blog, I am stretching my neck back out of the shell. This first post back is very much a “teachin...| growthecon.com
In the time-honored tradition of the Growth Economics Blog, I am coming into a discussion about four weeks late. In this case it has to do with the value of ...| growthecon.com
This is an odd post because it is an advertisement for a new paper that is …. in an advanced draft state? “Finished” is wrong because I’m about to embark on ...| growthecon.com
I told you in the last post that I’m agnostic about the relationship of TFP and innovation. That was part of an on-going debate, mainly with Eli Dourado. I w...| growthecon.com
In some recent Twittering, Eli Dourado pointed to the “Gordon/Vollrath” view that stagnation is normal, healthy, and a sign of success. I guess it is kind of...| growthecon.com
Well, insurrection in the nation’s literal Capitol was not the context I expected for my next blog entry. But with lots of nervous energy and few useful outl...| growthecon.com
A few weeks ago I participated in a discourse on Pairagraph with Eli Dourado of the Center for Growth and Opportunity. The prompt was “Economic growth is sta...| growthecon.com
You can see this post as a way of thinking about anything other than …. whatever real life has going on right now. And a warning that I posted this without a...| growthecon.com