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"Hexapodia" Is the Key Insight: by Noah Smith & Brad DeLong

Key insights—economics, finance, political economy, and wrestling with how to teach the world good economics through every means possible, & some means impossible... braddelong.substack.com bradde... Read more

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Ranked #1

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Hexapodia L: Why Is Such a Good Economy Seen as Bad?

Hexapodia L: Why Is Such a Good Economy Seen as Bad?

Key Insights:* Brad has a new microphone!* Noah has jet lag: he is just back from Japan.* Brad has jet lag: he is just b... Read more

11 Aug 2023

48mins

Ranked #2

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Hexapodia XLIX: We Cannot Tell in Advance Which Technologies Are Labor-Augmenting & Which Are Labor-Replacing

Hexapodia XLIX: We Cannot Tell in Advance Which Technologies Are Labor-Augmenting & Which Are Labor-Replacing

Key Insights:* Brad’s microphone is dying, and a new one is on order.* However, 75% of the talking on this episode is No... Read more

7 Jul 2023

45mins

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PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVIII: The "Late-Antiquity Pause"

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVIII: The "Late-Antiquity Pause"

Key Insights:* Rome did fall. It did not merely “transform”.* Across Eurasia, from 150 to 800 or so there was a pronounc... Read more

22 Jun 2023

1hr 14mins

Ranked #4

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PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVII: “Polycrisis” Was Just the New Cold War All the Time!

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVII: “Polycrisis” Was Just the New Cold War All the Time!

Key Insights:* The global trade network is immensely valuable…* Friendshoring is not deglobalization, but raher shift-gl... Read more

6 Feb 2023

56mins

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PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVI: Þe One Where We Talk About Everything, wiþ Special Guest Miles Kimball

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLVI: Þe One Where We Talk About Everything, wiþ Special Guest Miles Kimball

Key Insights:* Yes, it is possible to talk about everything in an hour…* We are not very far apart on what the Fed is do... Read more

10 Jan 2023

1hr 4mins

Ranked #6

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PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLV: Information Goods & þe Measurement of Economic Growth, wiþ Special Guest John Quiggin

PODCAST: “Hexapodia” is þe Key Insight! XLV: Information Goods & þe Measurement of Economic Growth, wiþ Special Guest John Quiggin

Key Insights:* Information really wants to be free—if it is not free, if it is “charged for” by advertising, or otherwis... Read more

20 Dec 2022

49mins

Ranked #7

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PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLIV: R&D & Industrial Resarch Labs

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLIV: R&D & Industrial Resarch Labs

Pre-Note:Here in the U.S., at the leading edge of the world economy, measured producivity growth fell off a cliff in the... Read more

9 Dec 2022

1hr 8mins

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PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLIII: Crypto Fraud! Edition

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLIII: Crypto Fraud! Edition

Pre-Note:One thing we did not get into was the relationship between the claps of FTX and the associated fraud and “Effec... Read more

17 Nov 2022

53mins

Ranked #9

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PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLII: "Slouching Towards Utopia"—Brad's New Book Edition

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLII: "Slouching Towards Utopia"—Brad's New Book Edition

Key Insights:* Since 1870, we humans have done amazingly astonishingly uniquely and unprecedentedly well at baking a suf... Read more

20 Sep 2022

1hr 24mins

Ranked #10

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PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLI: Inflation & Its Vicissitudes

PODCAST: "Hexapodia" is þe Key Insight! XLI: Inflation & Its Vicissitudes

Key Insights:* The only way to buy insurance against the fiscal theory of the price level’s becoming relevant for the in... Read more

29 Aug 2022

1hr

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