Things to Read on the Morning of May 25, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Richard Thaler: Unless You Are Spock, Irrelevant Things Matter in Economic Behavior
• Social Credit! Mark Blyth, Eric Lonergan and Simon Wren-Lewis: Now the Bank of England needs to deliver QE for the people. We propose that the government legislates to empower the Bank with the ability to make payments directly to the household sector…
• Must-Read: Christopher L. Foote and Christopher F. Goetz (2005): The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime: Comment
• Must-Read: Nicholas Bagley: Wreck the RUC
• Must-Read: William Lazonick: Stock buybacks: From retain-and reinvest to downsize-and-distribute
• Simon Johnson and Andrei Levchenko: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): This Is Not About Ricardo

Over at Equitable Growth—The Equitablog

• Casey Schoeneberger: Weekend reading
• Kavya Vaghul: What about commuting to new economic opportunities?

Plus:

• Things to Read on the Evening of January 31, 2015

And Over Here:

• Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Will Moore: A glass-half-full view of academic fraud in political science – The Washington Post

• Daniel Zadik: “The Y chromosomes of the majority of European men can be traced back to just three individuals living between 3,500 and 7,300 years ago…”)
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• Hodding Carter III: Glenn Greenwald, I’m sorry: Why I changed my mind on Edward Snowden