Things to Read on the Morning of May 18, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: Obama’s Real Problem on Trade Is Way Bigger than Elizabeth Warren
• Must-Read: John Quiggin: The Political Is Personal
• Kiley Kroh: This Billionaire [Harold Hamm] Tried To Get [Oklahoma] University Scientists Fired For Doing Their Job
• Lawrence Delevingne: Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater: This is not a bubble
• Simon Wren-Lewis: Do not underestimate the power of microfoundations
• Paul Pfleiderer (2014): Chameleons: The Misuse of Theoretical Models in Finance and Economics
• Paul Romer: Mathiness in the Theory of Economic Growth
• The Interest Rate That Did Not Bark in the Night: The Surge in U.S. Treasury Debt and the Non-Reaction of Rates (2011)
• Simon Wren-Lewis: Paul Romer and Microfoundations

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Pink Chai
• Samuel R. Delany (1998): Racism and Science Fiction
• Cory Doctorow: [Karl Taro Greenfield’s] The Subprimes: A Novel of the Piketty/Klein Apocalypse
• Scott Aaronson: “My own hypothesis has to do with bullet-dodgers versus bullet-swallowers…”
• Ten Easy Morel Recipes
• MisterWives
• Cosma Shalizi: Any P-Value Distinguishable from Zero is Insufficiently Informative