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Must-reads: May 14, 2016

Peter Dorman: Issues with Econ 101 at Three Levels
Roger Farmer: Pricing Assets in an Economy with Two Types of People
Tim Duy: Fed Watch: Fed Speak, Claims
Noah Smith: Thesis: Economics and Econ 101ism:

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Dani Rodrik: Fairness and Free Trade
Cosma Shalizi (2016): On the Uncertainty of the Bayesian Estimator
Cosma Shalizi (2009): Bayes < Darwin-Wallace
Cosma Shalizi (2010): The Bootstrap » American Scientist
Unfogged: Adam Tooze: “The Deluge”, Chapters 1 and 2
Unfogged: Adam Tooze: “The Deluge”, Chapters 3 and 4
Thomas Klitgaard and James Narron : Crisis Chronicles: Gold, Deflation, and the Panic of 1893
Larry Mishel et al.: Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts

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