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2026 Final Exam

April 18, 2026 by Miles Kimball

Slides (these are also on Canvas under “Files”, which is where you need to go for the ones that I felt have copyright issues)

  • Increasing Returns and Imperfect Competition

  • Negative Interest Rate Policy Slides (21 Misconceptions)

  • Why Output and Employment are Too Low

  • Slide equivalent: Brad DeLong Boils Down the Spine of Economic History in One Table

Posts to Read

  • I love AI. Why doesn't everyone? by Noah Smith

  • Salarymen, specialists and small businesses, by Noah Smith

  • The Surprising Reason Europe Came Together Against Putin (on Machine Translation) by Claire Berlinski

  • The elemental foe: Lifting humanity out of poverty is Job #1 by Noah Smith

  • Book review: "Slouching Towards Utopia": Brad DeLong tells his story of the 20th century by Noah Smith

  • The Government and the Mob

  • The Fastest Path to African Prosperity by Magatte Wade

  • A Tweetstorm on Imperfect Information Processing

  • Negative Interest Rate Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy

  • How Having Negative Interest Rate Policy in Its Toolkit Would Make the Fed Braver in Confronting Inflation with Needed Rate Hikes—A Tweetstorm

YouTube Video to Watch for the Final Exam

  • Interview about Negative Interest Rate Policy

April 18, 2026 /Miles Kimball
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