Worth Reading: Modeled Behavior: Karl Smith and Company: Thursday Focus (January 9, 2014)

Traditionally, I have tried to use Thursdays as a time to let loose on the idiocy–on people who haven’t done their homework, haven’t connected the dots, have decided to degrade the quality of substantive discourse in order to advance a partisan political point of view, haven’t bothered to mark their beliefs to market, haven’t gotten up the energy to think things through.

But it would be more fun, I think, to spend Thursdays pointing out smart people whose work I thick is undervalued in the discourse.

And so, for today’s focus, I want to point out to one and all that I find Modeled Behavior–to be well worth reading. And, I think, in general it is profoundly undercited in the discourse.

For example…

Worth reading from Karl Smith:

1. Bitter Medicine
2. The BL-MP Model | More on BL-MP | BL-MP: Critique This View
3. Art Laffer is Wrong on Stimulus But Not for the Reasons Brad Delong Says
4. The ECB’s Liquidity Leak
5. The Limits of Structural Reform
6. There is a Boom Out There Somewhere
7. Unanticipated Changes in Inflation: Small Business Edition
8. When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Fiscal Futures Edition
9. Inequality in the Robot Future
10. On Being Liberal

Worth reading from Adam Ozimek:

• The Future Of Work (And Life) Is Conscientiousness
• DeLong On Outsourcing
• Big Questions About The Impact Of A Minimum Wage Hike That Aren’t Being Asked
• The Conservative Case for Immigration Reform
• Give Us Your Geniuses: Why Seeking Smart Immigrants Is a No-Brainer
• An Alternative Theory of the Skills Shortage
• Bloggers and Economists are Failing on Immigration

Worth reading from the no-longer-contributing Niklas Blanchard:

• Inflation is Confusing. Let’s Target Nominal Expenditure!
• What Does the Market Know that John Taylor Knows that the Market Knows?
• Master of Noance
• Solutions: Everybody Has One