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Must-Reads: May 30, 2016

Ricardo Hausmann: Overdosing on Heterodoxy Can Kill You
Stephen G. Cecchetti Kermit L. Schoenholtz: Spillovers, Spillbacks and Policy Coordination
James Bessen: Lobbyists Are Behind the Rise in Corporate Profits
Wired: The Economic Lessons of Star Trek’s Money-Free Society
Pascal Seppecher, Isabelle Salle, and Dany Lang: Is the Market Really a Good Teacher?

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Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson: How bank networks amplify financial crises: Evidence from the Great Depression | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal
Duncan Weldon: The IMF, the neoliberal agenda and the world we’ve built
Sandy Jencks: Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer
Eric Rauchway: “Maybe I have to tweet this every day”: Eric Rauchway (2010): New Deal Denialism
Populist Backlash and Political Economy
Sunday Theology Weblogging…
Weekend Reading: Prakash Loungani on the Extremely Wise Dani Rodrik: Rebel with a Cause

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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