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J. Bradford DeLong

출생: June 24, 1960 – Boston, Massachusetts, United States

J. Bradford DeLong is an American economist and economic historian whose work focuses on macroeconomics, growth, finance, and modern economic history. A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, he is known for The Roaring Nineties and Slouching Towards Utopia, and for shaping public debate through influential policy writing and commentary.

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J. Bradford DeLong built his career at the intersection of scholarship, policy, and public argument. Trained at Harvard, where he earned his B.A. in 1982 and Ph.D. in 1987, he taught at MIT, Boston University, and Harvard before joining the University of California, Berkeley in 1993; he became a full professor there in 1997. The decisive early turning point came when he entered government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995, working on the Clinton administration’s budget and macroeconomic agenda, trade negotiations including the Uruguay Round and NAFTA, and the policy crises that shaped 1990s economic debate. ((https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/j-bradford-delong))

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Yet even if one remains convinced of the previous generation's case against government-led development, industrial policy has become unavoidable
-America Has No Alternative to Industrial Policy
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Instead, eurozone policymakers insisted on repeating the mistakes of the 1930s, and today they are doubling down on them
-Depression’s Advocates
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But this basic principle of macroeconomic management has gone out the window
-Let it Bleed?
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What we have seen since 2008 is that Japan is not an exception
-The Long Short Run
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The global market economy continues to evade all our attempts to make it foolproof – in large part because our greater fools are so ingenious
-The wrong financial crisis
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Housing construction sat down. Business investment and exports stood up
-Brookings Productivity Festival
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It’s a huge shift, and it’s one of the things that makes the modern world, as we know, even vaguely possible to imagine
-Conversations with Tyler: Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress
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If the answer is that more than half of the electorate wants to be misinformed, America – and indeed human civilisation – is in serious trouble
-Misinformation decided the US election
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democracies survive only when they are underpinned by civic friendship between their members
-America’s broken civic bargain
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Rates today are far higher – around two percentage points – than the level anyone five years ago (before the pandemic) would have estimated the “neutral” rate to be
-The mystery of US interest rates

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"One of the most ambitious and admirable economic history books of the year... DeLong is a guide whose conclusions I cannot fault"

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"Brad DeLong puts together the puzzle of the past to tell a story of remarkable achievements as well as setbacks"

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"Worries that the future will be worse than the present are an excellent reason to read Bradford DeLong's new book"

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