Miles's Tweetstorm of Favorite Passages from Noah Smith's Review of Brad DeLong's book ‘Slouching Towards Utopia’
https://twitter.com/mileskimball/status/1602332992231378945
"Brad DeLong has an encyclopedic command of modern economic history, and an inimitable writing style — it was his blog, back in the mid-2000s, that first inspired me to want to become an econ blogger myself."
— Miles Kimball (@mileskimball) December 12, 2022
Blog envy when Brad visited U of MI was a key inspiration for me, too
"Mark Koyama & Jared Rubin’s How the World Became Rich, Gregory Clark’s A Farewell to Alms, Joel Mokyr’s A Culture of Growth, Robert Allen’s The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, & Robert Gordon’s The Rise and Fall of American Growth"https://t.co/FdXHnY67o0
— Miles Kimball (@mileskimball) December 12, 2022
"thanks to rapidly accelerating growth, humanity was rapidly confronted with newfound wealth beyond their previous imaginings, new possibilities for social organization, new problems, new opportunities, and new distributions of economic power."https://t.co/FdXHnY67o0
— Miles Kimball (@mileskimball) December 12, 2022
"Hayekian free markets create growth, but people want more — they want their Polanyian social protections. So they create systems like communism, fascism, or liberal democracy, designed to temper the market’s natural inequality and bring about a better society."
— Miles Kimball (@mileskimball) December 12, 2022
"DeLong’s vision of history is also a powerfully optimistic one. For many, it’s hard to look at the horrors of the 20th century — the concentration camps, the bombed-out cities, the despoiled landscapes — and not see a narrative of the Fall of Man."https://t.co/FdXHnY67o0
— Miles Kimball (@mileskimball) December 12, 2022
Dall-E https://t.co/Q5eij9zgGO AI stained-glass window of "Rough Beasts Slouching Towards an Industrial Utopia. pic.twitter.com/kPzqMsSN5a
— Miles Kimball (@mileskimball) December 12, 2022