Tag: roundup

Must-reads: April 5, 2016

Posted on April 5, 2016April 5, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• The Economist: Chairman of Everything
• Wes McKinney: “United shows me better fares…
• Heather Boushey and Kavya Vaghul: Women have made the difference for family economic security

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• Maia Szalavitz: Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction
• Robert Waldmann: The 1996 Welfare Reform Bill Hits Again
• Jim Miller: Will California’s New Minimum Wage Law Make sense in Bakersfield?
• Philip Cohen: American policy fails at reducing child poverty because it aims to fix the poor
• Roger E.A. Farmer and Konstantin Platonov: Animal Spirits in a Monetary Model
• David Keohane: Helicopter Spotting
• Raghuram Rajan (2013): “The bottom line is that unconventional monetary policies that move away from repairing markets or institutions to changing prices and inflationary expectations seem to be a step into the dark…”
• Rebecca Spang: Past and Future in 19th-cy Europe
• Stanley Ambrose (1998): Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans
• W. S. And E. S. Woytinsky (1953): World Population and Production: Trends and Outlook
• Wladimir S Woytinski: [World commerce and governments: Trends and outlook](http://www.amazon.com/World-commerce-governments-Trends-outlook/dp/B0006AU7CA/

Must-reads: April 3, 2016

Posted on April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Gavyn Davies: The internet and the Productivity Slump
• Juan Linz: The Perils of Presidentialism
• Tim Duy: Yellen Pivots Toward Saving Her Legacy

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• Jean-Louis Gassee: 40 Years Later: Apple 3.0
• Robert Waldmann: Dynamic Inefficiency

Must-reads: April 1, 2016

Posted on April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Dean Baker: Prime-Age Workers Re-Enter Labor Market
• Paul Krugman (1996): The Spiral of Inequality
• Narayana Kocherlakota: Information in Inflation Breakevens about Fed Credibility
• Bill Black: Announcing the Bank Whistleblowers United Initial Initiatives
• Justin Wolfers: On Twitter

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• Robert Waldmann: Dynamic Inefficiency
• J. Bradford DeLong and Lawrence H. Summers (1992): Macroeconomic Policy and Long-Run Growth
• Squared Away: 401ks: an Employer-Employee Disconnect

Must-reads: March 31, 2016

Posted on March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Daniel P. Gross: The Ties that Bind: Railroad Gauge Standards and Internal Trade in the 19th Century U.S.
• Tim Duy: Yellen Today

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• Menzie Chinn: Estimates of the Elasticity of Employment with Respect to the Minimum Wage
• Kevin Drum: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson’s American Amnesia: Three Cheers For the Mixed Economy!
• Tim Duy: Oil, Inflation Expectations, and Credibility
• Walter Frick: How the Rise of the Post Office Explains American Innovation
• Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson, Rebecca Burgess, and Deepak Bhargava: American Amnesia DC LAUNCH
• Anne-Marie Slaughter: Why Valuing Unpaid Care Work Fosters Economic Growth and Gender Equality
• Heather Boushey: Home Economics
• Christopher Jones: Energy Transitions in the United States
• T. William Lester: The Consequences of Higher Labor Standards in Full Service Restaurants
• Ben Bernanke (2010): Remarks at the Town Hall Meeting with Soldiers and and Their Families, Fort Bliss, Texas
• Rex Nutting: Think nothing is made in America? Output has doubled in three decades
• Charles Gaba: The ENTIRE U.S. Healthcare Coverage Landscape
• Irvine Renter: Forget austerity, housing and the economy need more stimulus

Must-reads: March 30, 2016

Posted on March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Jonathan Chait: Oh, Good, It’s 2016 and We’re Arguing Whether Marxism Works
• Janet Yellen: The Outlook, Uncertainty, and Monetary Policy
• Branko Milanovic and Suresh Naidu: Branko Milanovic’s New Approach to Global Inequality
• Menzie Chinn: Estimates of the Elasticity of Employment with Respect to the Minimum Wage
• Paul Krugman: Trade Deficits: These Times are Different
• Macro Advisers: Now-Cast

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• Janet Yellen: The Outlook, Uncertainty, and Monetary Policy
• Daniel Leigh (2010): A 4% Inflation Target
• Olivier Blanchard et al. (2009): Rethinking Macro Policy
• Binyamin Applebaum: Simmering for Decades, Anger About Trade Boils Over in ’16 Election
• Karen M. Tani: Introduction to States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972

Must-reads: March 28, 2016

Posted on March 28, 2016March 28, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Narayana Kocherlakota: The Fed’s Credibility Dilemma
• Wolfgang Munchau: The Errors Behind Europe’s Many Crises
• Martin Wolf: Helicopter drops might not be far away

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• Menzie Chinn: Estimates of the Elasticity of Employment with Respect to the Minimum Wage
• Vicky Fouka
• Las Vegas Valley
• David Atkins: California May Lead the Nation Forward with a $15 Minimum Wage

Must-reads: March 24, 2016

Posted on March 24, 2016March 29, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• John Maynard Keynes (1936): The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
• Mark Thoma: The State of American Politics
• Branko Milanovic: Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
• John Maynard Keynes (1936): A somewhat comprehensive socialization of investment…

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• Josh Bivens: Mission still not accomplished: To reach full employment we need to move fiscal policy from austerity to stimulus
• Christian Keuschnigg: Moving to the Innovation Frontier
• Mike Beggs (2011): Zombie Marx
• Jason Furman: The Affordable Care Act at Six: Progress on Coverage, Costs, and Quality
• John Stuart Mill (1829): Contra Say’s Law: “Money, consequently, was in request, and all other commodities were in comparative disrepute…”
• Thomas Robert Malthus (1819): The “General Glut”
• Christopher R. Walters: Inputs in the Production of Early Childhood Human Capital: Evidence from Head Start
• Simon Wren-Lewis: MMT and Mainstream Macro
• Nick Rowe: Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Reverse-Engineering the MMT Model

Must-reads: March 23, 2016

Posted on March 23, 2016March 23, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Martin Wolf: China’s Struggle for a New Normal
• Ed Balls: Echoes of the 1930s must focus finance ministers’ minds
• Employment-to-Population 25-54

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• Ben S. Bernanke: What Tools Does the Fed Have Left? Part 1: Negative Interest Rates
• Alan Blinder: Trumpism, the Economic Wrecking Ball
• Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg: Preparing for the Next Recession: Lessons from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
• Paul Krugman: Clinton and CAFTA
• Reuven Glick and Andrew K. Rose: How Much Does the EMU Benefit Trade?

Must-reads: March 22, 2016

Posted on March 22, 2016March 22, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Mohamed A. El-Erian: Is the Perfect Storm Over for Markets?
• Heather Boushey: Home Economics
• Wolfgang Munchau: European Central Bank Must Be Much Bolder
• David Card and Laura Giuliano: Can Tracking Raise the Test Scores of High-Ability Minority Students?
• Peter Praet: Interview with La Repubblica

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• Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar: Growing Evidence Shows Health Insurance Gains Are Due To ACA, Not Economy
• Ben Leubsdorf: Half of U.S. May Endure ‘Lost Decade’ of Depressed Employment
• Matthew C. Klein: The Fed’s gradual embrace of “secular stagnation”
• Adair Turner: The strange amnesia of modern macroeconomics
• Patrice Lee: Why Are So Many Working Americans Still Dependent on Food Stamps?
• Wang Shuo and Wang Liwei: Ben Bernanke Gives His Take on China’s Policy Choices: “Former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman says ‘targeted fiscal policy’ would help country develop a consumption-driven economy…”

Must-reads: March 21, 2016

Posted on March 21, 2016March 21, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Jared Bernstein: Five Simple Formulas
• Ken Rogoff: The Fear Factor in Global Markets
• Dani Rodrik: More on the Political Trilemma of the Global Economy
• Jonathan Kirshner: Machinations of Wicked Men
• Danny Yagan: The Enduring Employment Impact of Your Great Recession
• Nick Rowe: Interest, Capital, MRScc=(1+r)=1+(MPK/MRTci)+(dMRTci/dt)/MRTci

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• Daniel Suskind: Machines use their own intelligence not ours
• Eduardo Porter: On Trade, Angry Voters Have a Point
• Eduardo Penalver and Sonia Katyal: Property Outlaws: important scholarly book on how breaking property law improves it
• James C. Scott: Tyranny of the Ladle