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Must-reads: April 24, 2016

Joshua Gans: Ford hedges to deal with disruption
Benjamin Mitra-Kahn: Keynes passed away 70 years ago today–his copyright follows
Noah Smith: Policy Recommendations and Wishful Thinking

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Jason Furman and Douglas Holtz-Eakin: Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay
Bin Wong: China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience: 9780801483271
Kenneth Pomeranz: The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World: 9780691090108
Karl Marx: The Poverty of Philosophy
Robert Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, Martin Dribe: Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe
hrister Lundh, Satomi Kurosu: Similarity in Difference: Marriage in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
Frank Dobbin: Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age
Arjun Jayadev: Axel Leijonhufvud: The Road not Taken
Michael Shea: The Protestant Ethic and the Language of Austerity

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon