Latest articles by Brad DeLong
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Global warming panic attack
feature My plan to address the potential cataclysm of global warming is shrill, impractical and utopian. But I doubt you have a better one
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We need bigger deficits
feature In normal times, deficit spending has all sorts of negative effects on economic activity. These are not normal times
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Politics is undermining our economy
feature We could reduce unemployment — if only Washington wanted to
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Keynes & Co. have lost the stimulus argument
feature With the nation mired in unemployment, liberal economists have been pulling the fire alarm with increasing urgency. But the fire department isn't coming
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Washington's deficit-hawk pretenders
feature Even if the GOP's spending cuts are larger than Obama's, they would fritter away the proceeds on tax cuts and repealing health-care reform
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Is the economy a victory or a defeat?
feature Yes, we've averted the worst, but unemployment is at 10 percent. Assessing the economic recovery
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The curious triumph of RomneyCare
feature Neither Democrats nor Republicans have an incentive to discuss the Republican roots of Obama's health-care plan. But that doesn't mean they're not real—and deep
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The jobless recovery has begun
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A Wall Street Fairy Tale
feature Now that the danger appears to have passed, Wall Street honchos, with support from some in Congress, are telling themselves that the financial system was perfectly sound all along. We can’t afford their delusion.
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The crisis—and Geithner plan—explained
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End times for Milton Friedman?
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The Chicago School is eclipsed
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The Panic of 1825
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What do we do about John Yoo?
feature Law professor John Yoo, author of the infamous Bush administration torture memos, is a controversial presence here at Berkeley. Did Yoo really write those memos in good faith?
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Why health-care reform failed last time
feature There were 80 votes available for health-care reform in the Senate in 1994, but securing them required the endorsement of one man. When Bob Dole turned his back on reform, he doomed it. He also doomed himself.
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The wrong jobs summit
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The White House's economic policies, which were calibrated to address a less severe crisis than the one we've enfeature -
How spending stimulates
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The risks of more stimulus
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The NY Times flunks the policy test
feature When economics reporting at the nation's leading newspaper reads like gossip, we’ve got a problem
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Making religion of economics
feature The arguments of market fundamentalists don't fit the facts of our economy. So they ignore the facts
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