Brad DeLong's Coffee and Tea Audio Podcasts

James Scott's Seeing Like a State: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:40:34 -0700

James Scott sees local community "metis" as the solution to the problems of state and market. I don't buy it.

Mobility: Economics 113 (Audio)

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:20:27 -0700

How equal is opportunity in America?

The Great Compression: Economics 113 (Audio)

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:03:32 -0700

American economic history: after World War II, how America became a middle-class society (for white guys).

Discussion of Greg Clark's "A Farewell to Alms": U.C. Davis Center for Society, Culture, and History (Video)

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:34:11 -0700

Tyler Cowen, Greg Clark, and I discuss Greg's new book at U.C. Davis's Center for History, Society, and Culture. Alan Taylor does the introductions. Eric Rauchway is the cameraman.

Milton Friedman Day: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:40:45 -0700

By the middle of the Great Depression classical liberalism as a theory and a guide to the practice of political economy was dead. Milton Friedman revived it. To a remarkably large extent, it flourishes today because of him. It is indeed ideas that are powerful, for good or evil...

Nationalism: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:40:41 -0700

Nationalism is probably both the strongest and the least well understood force driving human politics and sociology--and economics--today. We read Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities to try to make sense of it.

The New Deal: Economics 113 (Audio)

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:23:54 -0700

America becomes a social democracy under Roosevelt.

Really Existing Socialism: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:28:00 -0700

Communism: what went wrong? Largely Milovan Djilas's take...

The Great Depression II: Economics 113 (Audio)

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:31:11 -0700

Keynesian and monetarist explanations of the Great Depression--their virtues and their drawbacks...

The Subprime Market and the Hedge Fund Meltdown: Faculty Lunch Forum (Audio)

Mon, 8 Oct 2007 20:30:13 -0700

What did happen to financial and housing markets in August, anyway?

Post-WWII Europe in the Argentine Mirror: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:05:45 -0700

For three decades--1914-1945--everything went wrong in Europe. Then, from 1945-1973, everything went right in Western Europe. Why? Perhaps there are clues in viewing Europe in the Argentine mirror...

The Great Depression: Economics 113 (Audio)

Wed, 3 Oct 2007 22:01:47 -0700

How did the world slide into the Great Depression anyway?

Karl Polanyi: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Tue, 2 Oct 2007 21:50:38 -0700

Market, political, sociological, and moral: four sources of order and four sources of power. To try to subordinate everything to the market, says Karl Polanyi, invites not just trouble but catastrophe.

Pre-Midterm Review: Economics 113 (Audio)

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:13:46 -0700

Industrializing America: Economics 113 (Audio)

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:57:39 -0700

The era from 1865 to 1929 that saw the United States become the world's preeminent and most productive industrial economy.

What Is Political Economy Here at Berkeley? (Audio)

Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:04:10 -0700

Talk to International Studies peer advisors.

Europe Between the Wars: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:14:41 -0700

The pariah states of Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union. The failed attempt to rebuild the pre-World War I order. The policy dilemmas. The view from 1929.

The Subprime Crisis and the Federal Reserve: KQED (Audio)

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:45:57 -0700

Brad DeLong and John Taylor on Michael Krasny's KQED Forum. The housing bubble, the subprime crisis, the Federal Reserve, and interest rates.

Post-Civil War America: Economics 113: American Economic History (Audio)

Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:42:47 -0700

The creation of an urban, industrial, immigrant-filled America before World War I--with odd stories from Brad's family history attached.

Also at: http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/2007_audio/113_9_19_07.m4a

Smithian Economics and Keynesian Economics: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:46:32 -0700

From the laissez-faire free market economics of Adam Smith to the clever-governance anti-laissez-faire economics of John Maynard Keynes

Bloomberg on the Economy: Radio with Tom Keene (Audio)

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:43:11 -0700

DeLong Wants Fed's Focus on Financial System Regulation: Sep. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Bradford DeLong, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, talks with Bloomberg's Tom Keene about the Federal Reserve's role in the regulation of the U.S. financial system, investing in stocks versus bonds, and DeLong's assessment of former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. (Source: Bloomberg)

<http://www.boomberg.com/tvradio/podcast/ontheeconomy.html>

World War I and John Maynard Keynes: Political Economy 101 (Audio)

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:50:16 -0700

The origins of "managerialism" as a twentieth-century political ideology.

Who Gained Most from Slavery?: American Economic History (Audio)

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:45:07 -0700

The biggest gainers from American slavery were... those who wore clothes made from the cotton that the slaves grew.

Global Imbalances (Audio)

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:44:42 -0700

How long can the U.S. continue to run massive trade deficits? How long can China and company run massive trade surpluses?

The Defense and Critique of Greenspanism: Macro Lunch (Audio)

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:43:37 -0700

Could Alan Greenspan have done anything to defuse the bubbles of his last decade at the Fed without inflicting unacceptable collateral damage on the economy?