Must-Reads: June 23, 2016
- : Expect the Worst
- : A Question For the Fed
- : What Happens When One Party Doesn’t Care About Governing?
Should Reads:
- : Why the Fed Has a Rate-Setting Problem
- : The Myth of Austerity and Growth
- (2012): IMF: Austerity is much worse for the economy than we thought
- : Neoliberalism: Oversold?
- : Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers
- (2010): IMF Admits Mistakes in 1997 Crisis Countermeasures
- (2015): The Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment: Evidence from Advanced Economies
- (2013): The Reinhart and Rogoff Controversy: A Summing Up
- (2013): After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s data, we’ve concluded that high debt does not slow growth
- (2012): World Economic Outlook: Coping with High Debt and Sluggish Growth
- : One Economic Sickness, Five Diagnoses
- (2010): Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes versus Spending Chapter Authors
- (2002): An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output
- (2011): A Dozen Economic Facts About Innovation
- (2014): Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain Are Now Making Money Off Spam
- : Philosophy, Psychology, and Smarts: “This cultural difference results in a quite radical difference in the atmosphere that one finds in graduate education. Philosophy students experience constant anxiety about whether they are smart enough. Psychology students also experience a lot of anxiety, but it is about a completely different topic. They have this ever-present sense that they absolutely must find some way to make a concrete contribution to the field…”
- : Brexit supporters say they’re worried about immigration. The real problems are deeper
- (Late) Monday Smackdown: Jonathan Chait Takes Care of Jonathan Rauch