J Bradford Delong
Biographic Data
| ID | 265363 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Bradford Delong |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Bradford |
| FAMILY NAME | Delong |
| SIGNATURE | DELONG J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Federal Reserve |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Response to Josh Hausman's Essay
After Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty,…
Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy
In a depressed economy, with short-term nominal interest rates at their zero lower bound, ample cyclical unemployment, and excess capacity, increased government purchases would be neither offset by the monetary authority raising interest rates nor neutralized by supply-side bottlenecks. Then even a small amount of hysteresis—even a small shadow cast on future potential output by the cyclical downturn—means, by simple arithmetic, that expansionary…
The U.S. Equity Return Premium
For more than a century, diversified long-horizon investments in America's stock market have consistently received much higher returns than investors in bonds: a return gap averaging 6 percent per year. An enormous amount of creative and ingenious work by a great many economists has gone into seeking explanations for the so-called “equity premium return puzzle,” but so far without a fully satisfactory answer. We first review the facts about the e…
Sisyphus as Social Democrat
One Boardroom Fits All
Speculative microeconomics for tomorrow's economy
Governments and societies that bet on the market system become more materially prosperous and technologically powerful. The lesson usually drawn from this economic success story is that in the overwhelming majority of cases the best thing the government can do for the economy is to set the background rules - define property rights, set up honest courts, perhaps rearrange the distribution of income, impose minor taxes and subsidies to compensate f…
Senior's 'Last Hour
Research Article| June 01 1986 Senior's ‘Last Hour’: Suggested Explanation of a Famous Blunder J. Bradford DeLong J. Bradford DeLong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (2): 325–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-18-2-325 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. Bradford DeLong; Senior's ‘Last Hour’: Suggested Explanation of a Famous Blunder. Histo…
Sisyphus as Social Democrat
Senior's 'Last Hour
Research Article| June 01 1986 Senior's ‘Last Hour’: Suggested Explanation of a Famous Blunder J. Bradford DeLong J. Bradford DeLong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (2): 325–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-18-2-325 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. Bradford DeLong; Senior's ‘Last Hour’: Suggested Explanation of a Famous Blunder. Histo…
Senior's 'Last Hour
Research Article| June 01 1986 Senior's ‘Last Hour’: Suggested Explanation of a Famous Blunder J. Bradford DeLong J. Bradford DeLong Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (1986) 18 (2): 325–333. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-18-2-325 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. Bradford DeLong; Senior's ‘Last Hour’: Suggested Explanation of a Famous Blunder. Histo…
Speculative microeconomics for tomorrow's economy
Governments and societies that bet on the market system become more materially prosperous and technologically powerful. The lesson usually drawn from this economic success story is that in the overwhelming majority of cases the best thing the government can do for the economy is to set the background rules - define property rights, set up honest courts, perhaps rearrange the distribution of income, impose minor taxes and subsidies to compensate f…
One Boardroom Fits All
Sisyphus as Social Democrat
The U.S. Equity Return Premium
For more than a century, diversified long-horizon investments in America's stock market have consistently received much higher returns than investors in bonds: a return gap averaging 6 percent per year. An enormous amount of creative and ingenious work by a great many economists has gone into seeking explanations for the so-called “equity premium return puzzle,” but so far without a fully satisfactory answer. We first review the facts about the e…
Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy
In a depressed economy, with short-term nominal interest rates at their zero lower bound, ample cyclical unemployment, and excess capacity, increased government purchases would be neither offset by the monetary authority raising interest rates nor neutralized by supply-side bottlenecks. Then even a small amount of hysteresis—even a small shadow cast on future potential output by the cyclical downturn—means, by simple arithmetic, that expansionary…
After Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty,…
Response to Josh Hausman's Essay
Economics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Keynesian economics (2 works) · Monetary economics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Business (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Commerce (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Crash (1 work)