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