Things to Read on the Evening of May 15, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- Must-Read: : Fraternity of Failure
- : State Personal Income Tax Cuts: Still a Poor Strategy for Economic Growth
- Must-Read: : President Obama on Color-Blind Policy and Color-Conscious Morality
- Must-Read: : Thomas Piketty to Investigate Inequality in New Role at LSE
- Must-Read: : Why Adam Posen Thinks Obama’s TPP Is Worth Passing
- : Bruce Bartlett: “Utter Insanity and Stupidity”
- Must-Read: : Notes on the Surrender at Menlo Park
- Must-Read: : Free Lunch: Below potential, But How Far?
- (1998): America the Boastful
- (1998): The Capital Myth: The Difference between Trade in Widgets and Dollars
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- : The Time I Spent On A Commercial Whaling Ship Totally Changed My Perspective On The World
- : Looks like Amanda Terkel and Sam Stein of Huffington Post just decimated the argument that Hillary Clinton isn’t progressive enough…”
- : “Heaven knows that the internet hasn’t been stingy in its supply of discussion as to the legitimacy of the trigger warning. Everybody and his brother have an opinion about it, ranging from the New Republic to the NYT to the AAUP, each of whom have graced us with their cyber-statements. I wrote this because no where within this raging verbstorm can I find a convincing description of triggering, which (for me) is a physiological phenomenon. And I think it matters…”
- If the Republican presidential primary field were to be played upon the stage, I would condemn it as an implausible fiction… https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204296627961406&set=a.3829230134825.2134829.1399981420&type=1
- Cosma Shalizi
- : Lunatic Conspiracy Theories Aren’t What They Used to Be