Brad DeLong
J.Bradford DeLong is a professor of economics at UC Berkeley, chief economist of its Blum Center for Developing Economies and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He served in the U.S. government as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995. He is also a weblogger at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.
Interviews with Brad DeLong
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The Passions and the Interests
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The Worldly Philosophers
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The Classical Economists Revisited
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Economic Sentiments: Adam Smith, Condorcet and the Enlightenment
by Emma Rothschild -
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life
by Jonathan Sperber
The Best Books on the Classical Economists, recommended by Brad DeLong
The Best Books on the Classical Economists, recommended by Brad DeLong
They were an eclectic bunch, including, among others, a stock market speculator, a moral philosopher, a cleric, a lawyer and a journalist. From the late-18th to the mid-19th century, they provided the first systematic explanations of how economies work, where they fail and how they might be made to work better. Here, Brad DeLong, a professor of economics at UC Berkeley, introduces the classical economists, and suggests books to read to learn more about them and what they were trying to achieve.
