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Must-reads: April 10, 2016
Matthew Klein: Private Equity’s Mark-to-Make-Believe Problem Susan Dynarski: Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered Robert B. Reich: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few Barry Eichengreen: […]
Must-Read: Matthew Klein: Private Equity’s Mark-to-Make-Believe Problem
Must-Read: Matthew Klein: Private Equity’s Mark-to-Make-Believe Problem: “No asset is inherently worth anything… …just some multiple of the income you think it will produce over time. Both the earnings forecast […]
Must-Read: Susan Dynarski: Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered
Must-Read: Susan Dynarski: Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered: “Broward County…. More than half of its students are black or Hispanic… …Yet, as of 10 years ago, […]
Notes on the Global Economy as of Early April 2016
A Note on the Likelihood of Recession: With global inflation currently more than quiescent, there is no chance that global recovery will be—as Rudi Dornbusch used to say—assassinated by inflation-fighting […]
Must-Read: Robert B. Reich: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Must-Read: Gene Smolensky says Bob Reich’s latest book is truly excellent: Robert B. Reich: Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few: “The New Property… The New Monopoly… The New […]
Must-Read: Barry Eichengreen: “The Case for a Grand Bargain”
Must-Read: Barry Eichengreen: The Case for a Grand Bargain: “What would it take for all this to happen?… …First, there would have to be a reassertion of non-ideological economic common […]
Weekend reading: “Rewiring the labor market” edition
This is a weekly post we publish on Fridays with links to articles that touch on economic inequality and growth. The first section is a round-up of what Equitable Growth […]
Must-reads: April 8, 2016
Required reading from Peter J. Walker, Brian Feldman, and others.
A note on Niall Ferguson: Why did Keynes write “In the long run we are all dead”?
Keynes isn't discussing how to "seize the day" for pleasure. He's discussing how to use the quantity theory of money as an analytical tool.
Must-reads: April 7, 2016
Required reading from Simon Wren-Lewis, Yuka Hayashi and Anna Prior, and others.