Tag: roundup

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Cathy O’Neil: The Fight for 15
• Mark Thoma: Economic Growth vs. Social Insurance—Why Can’t We Have Both?
• Paul Krugman: TPP Take Two
• Kenneth E. Thorpe, Lindsay Allen, and Peter Joski: Out-Of-Pocket Prescription Costs Under a Typical Silver Plan Are Twice as High as in the Average Employer Plan
• Ryan Avent: Ben Bernanke’s big blunder: The Fed should have abandoned inflation targeting
• Peter Praet: Presentation at BVI Asset Management
• David Autor: The Limits Of The Digital Revolution: Why Our Washing Machines Won’t Go To The Moon
• Weijia Li: Party-State Relationships in One-Party Regimes

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Manu Saadia: The tech billionaires are wrong. We are never going to have cities on Mars
• Anita Anand: Sophia Dulup Singh: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary
• Harold Pollack: If you want mental health services to prevent violence, Medicaid expansion is critical
• Ben Carlson: My Thoughts on Hedge Funds
• Olivia Nuzzi: Barbara Boxer: She Crushed Carly Fiorina in 2010. Now She’s on a Mission to Do It Again

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Noah Smith: Star Trek Economics: Life After the Dismal Science
• Justin Wolfers: Remember all those people who predicted Obamacare would make us a nation of part-timers? http://t.co/IBOlyomtbE
• Adam Ozimek: Why Is Hiring Slow?
• Noah Smith: “The century-long continuing failure of for-profit universities should give pause to those who think education can be easily disrupted”
• Steven B. Webb (1984): The Supply of Money and Reichsbank Financing of Government and Corporate Debt in Germany, 1919-1923

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Felix Salmon (2012): Annals of Dubious Research, 401(k) Loan-Default Edition
• Jared Bernstein: September Jobs
• Brink Lindsey, ed.: Reviving Economic Growth: Policy Proposals from 51 Leading Experts
• Paul Krugman: The Investment Accelerator and the Woes of the World
• Jason Furman**: Business Investment in the United States: Facts, Explanations, Puzzles, and Policies
• Mohamed A. El-Erian: The Fed and the Disappointing Jobs Report
• Dani Rodrik**: Trade within versus Between Nations
• Thomas Klitgaard and James Narron: Crisis Chronicles: Defensive Suspension and the Panic of 1857

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Authors Alliance
• Charlie Stross: A Question About the Future of the World Wide Web

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Nick Bunker: The relationship between U.S. productivity growth and the decline in the labor share of national income
• Barry Eichengreen* and Marc Flandreau (2009): The rise and fall of the dollar (or when did the dollar replace sterling as the leading reserve currency?)
• Barry Eichengreen (2011): Exorbitant Privilege
• Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau (2012): The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Rise of the Dollar as an International Currency, 1914–1939
• George P. Topulos et al.: Planned Parenthood at Risk
• Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, and Emil Verner: Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Scott Erik Kaufman: [“I’m making the right enemies: ‘quoting verbatim’ is the new ‘lying,’ at least according to some people Bill O’Reily”
• Ed Kilgore: “I noted one report earlier this week that Republican voters in South Carolina didn’t much care whether Carly Fiorina was a successful executive at HP or a rolling disaster. But today Megan McArdle becomes the first pundit I’ve read to say it doesn’t much matter…”