"Hexapodia" Is the Key Insight: by Noah Smith & Brad DeLong
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 49 ratingsKey insights—economics, finance, political economy, and wrestling with how to teach the world good economics through every means possible, & some means impossible...
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PODCAST: Hexapodia IV: Checks for (Almost) Everyone! Wiþ Noah Smith & Brad DeLong
March 03, 2021 00:51 - 28 minutesThe classical British social insurance state took large chunks of human activity out of the marketplace and attempted to distribute them to each according to his or her need. The classical American social insurance state was targeted and grouchy, attempting to elicit proper behavior. Now we have a turn that we regard as very hopeful: recognizing that the problem of the poor is primarily the problem of too-little social power, that money brings social power, hence the solution is to get the mo...
PODCAST: Hexapodia IV: Checks for (Almost) Everyone! Wiþ Noah Smith & Brad DeLong
March 03, 2021 00:51 - 28 minutesThe classical British social insurance state took large chunks of human activity out of the marketplace and attempted to distribute them to each according to his or her need. The classical American social insurance state was targeted and grouchy, attempting to elicit proper behavior. Now we have a turn that we regard as very hopeful: recognizing that the problem of the poor is primarily the problem of too-little social power, that money brings social power, hence the solution is to get the m...
PODCAST: Hexapodia III: þe Minimum Wage, wiþ Arin Dube, Noah Smith, & Brad DeLong: Should We Be Fighting for $15?
February 24, 2021 03:12 - 48 minutesIf moderate raises in the minimum wage do not cause unemployment, who can object to them—but why do they not cause higher unemployment, if they in fact do not? RSS URL: <https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/47874.rss> Reference: Arin Dube (2019): Impacts of Minimum Wages: Review of the International Evidence <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/844350/impacts_of_minimum_wages_review_of_the_international_evidence_Arindrajit_Dube_w...
PODCAST: Hexapodia III: þe Minimum Wage, wiþ Arin Dube, Noah Smith, & Brad DeLong: Should We Be Fighting for $15?
February 24, 2021 03:12 - 48 minutesIf moderate raises in the minimum wage do not cause unemployment, who can object to them—but why do they not cause higher unemployment, if they in fact do not? RSS URL: <https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/47874.rss> Reference: Arin Dube (2019): Impacts of Minimum Wages: Review of the International Evidence <https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/844350/impacts_of_minimum_wages_review_of_the_international_evidence_Arindrajit_Dube_...
PODCAST: Hexapodia II: Industrial Policy? Do We Need It?, wiþ Brad DeLong & Noah Smith
February 17, 2021 01:15 - 33 minutesIs there a mysterious Factor X that can speed growth, enhance opportunity, raise wages, & convince others that no, China does not have a superior system? RSS URL: <https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/47874.rss> Works Referenced: Twirlip of the Mists: Hexapodia as the Key Insight: ‘I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs? I wasn't sure from the evocat...
PODCAST: Hexapodia II: Industrial Policy? Do We Need It?, wiþ Brad DeLong & Noah Smith
February 17, 2021 01:15 - 33 minutesIs there a mysterious Factor X that can speed growth, enhance opportunity, raise wages, & convince others that no, China does not have a superior system? RSS URL: <https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/47874.rss> Works Referenced: Twirlip of the Mists: Hexapodia as the Key Insight: ‘I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs? I wasn't sure from the evocati...
PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight I: "Relief, Support, Stimulus" or "Stimulus, Inflation, Catastrophe"?: þe Biden $1.9T Reconciliation Plan: Noah Smith & Brad DeLong
February 10, 2021 01:25 - 35 minutesNoah Smith & Brad DeLong now have a podcast: Works Referenced: Twirlip of the Mists: Hexapodia as the Key Insight<http://web.hexapodia.org/> Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Upon-Deep-Zones-Thought-ebook/dp/B000FBJAGO> Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002H8ORKM> Larry Summers: The Biden Stimulus Is Admirably Ambitious. But It Brings Some Big Risks too<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/larry-summers-bide...
PODCAST: "Hexapodia" Is þe Key Insight I: "Relief, Support, Stimulus" or "Stimulus, Inflation, Catastrophe"?: þe Biden $1.9T Reconciliation Plan: Noah Smith & Brad DeLong
February 10, 2021 01:25 - 35 minutesNoah Smith & Brad DeLong now have a podcast: Works Referenced: Twirlip of the Mists: Hexapodia as the Key Insight<http://web.hexapodia.org/> Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon the Deep <https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Upon-Deep-Zones-Thought-ebook/dp/B000FBJAGO> Vernor Vinge: A Deepness in the Sky<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002H8ORKM> Larry Summers: The Biden Stimulus Is Admirably Ambitious. But It Brings Some Big Risks too<https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/04/larry-summers-bid...