links: first week of 2008

Convinced that I ought to have something to show for all the time I spent online last month, I thought I might try out posting a few links.

Economics

• Brad DeLong's Political Economy and American Economic History lectures at UC Berkeley are online and made good mp3 player fodder for me. DeLong's a free trade neoliberal but says a bunch of sensible stuff, I thought. Here's a link to the directory containing the lectures for those uninterested in wading through the blog posts for links to the lectures. I found his gloss on Reich's Supercapitalism helpful. I also found it helpful to increase the tempo of the lectures 50% with Audacity. An hour is a long time.
• Decent comprehensive paper on the data on growing economic inequality in the US and UK from the latest issue of the Post-Autistic Economics Review.
• Gapminder's "GapCasts" are super. The newest installment compares France and Turkey.

Duke

• Some kind soul in Canada recorded Fredric Jameson's remarks at the opening Jackman Humanities Institute at the University of Toronto. The lecture's titled "Future of Culture, Future of Utopia" (mp3).

Vermischtes

• The Sunlight Foundation has a new project called Where Are They Now which tracks staff members of former members of the 109th Congress.
• Mackerel giving birth to Tuna.
• Jonathan Coulton's "Mandelbrot Set" is a pretty funny song. Coulton's also the composer of the equally enjoyable song at the closing credits of Portal. (mp3)