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Must-Reads: July 10, 2016

Storify: The Puzzling Aversion to Expansionary Fiscal Policy
Jason Furman: Is This Time Different? The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
Antonio Fatás and Lawrence H. Summers: The Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations
Jonathan Chait: Why ‘Fix the Debt’ Just Can’t Quit Paul Ryan
Ken Rogoff (2015): Debt Supercycle, Not Secular Stagnation

Should Reads:

Caroline Freund: @B_Eichengreen puts social policies (not tech/trade) at the center of rising Anglo inequality at BIS conf
Barry Eichengreen: Inequality
J. Bradford DeLong (2015): The Scary Debate Over Secular Stagnation Hiccup… or Endgame?
John Geanakoplos (2013): Leverage, default, and forgiveness: lessons from the American and European crises
Pseudoerasmus: McCloskey: Cotton wasn’t crucial to the British industrial revolution | Was slavery necessary to western industrialisation?
Storify: Gunpowder Empires’ Military Capacity and Ian Morris
Weekend Reading: Tim Dunlop: Journalism, Power and Taking Sides
Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz: The Race Between Education and Technology: The Economic History Research Frontier: A Great Recent Books Approach
Weekend Reading: William Jenning’s Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” Speech
Richard von Glahn: The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century: The Economic History Research Frontier: A Great Recent Books Approach

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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