Weekend reading
This is a weekly post we publish every Friday with links to articles we think anyone interested in equitable growth should read. We won’t be the first to share these articles, but we hope by taking a look back at the whole week we can put them in context.
Educational inequality
Josh Zumbrun on the affluence gap when it comes to SAT scores [wsj real time economics]
After the bubble bursts
Prakash Loungani answers a few questions about global housing markets, from their recent trends to how to manage housing bubbles [prakash loungani]
Slowing growth
Ylan Mui posts 5 graphs from the most recent World Economic Outlook showing how the global recovery has yet to take off [wonkblog]
The Economist looks at the potential slowdown in Chinese productivity and argues that the country’s inefficient banking sector may be to blame [the economist]
Global imbalances
China used to be the source of the global savings glut. But as Izabella Kaminska points out, Europe appears to be the new global lender [ft alphaville]
Paul Krugman reviews Martin Wolf’s new book, “The Shifts and the Shocks.” [new york review of books]