Must-Reads: August 31, 2016
- Larry Summers: Disappointed by What Came Out of Jackson Hole: I had high hopes… billed as a forum that would look at new approaches to the conduct of monetary policy…
- Anna Aizer et al.: Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children’s Future Test Scores?: Linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005…
- Martin Wolf: Capitalism and Democracy: The Strain Is Showing: Confidence in an enduring marriage between liberal democracy and global capitalism seems unwarranted….
- Charlie Stross: Two Thoughts: The effects [of] universal functional telepathy (lies and all)… on how we handle business…
- Gavyn Davies: Sims Highlights Fiscal Dominance at Jackson Hole: The most far reaching speech at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole meeting last week was…
Should Reads:
- Laurence Seidman (2014): Stimulus without Debt
- Richard Mayhew: From Silver Spam to Silver Gap — APTC Hacks
- Narayana Kocherlakota: What the Fed Chief’s Next Message Should Be
- Alexandra M. de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden: Gender Relations and Economic Development: Hypotheses about the Reversal of Fortune in EurAsia
- Axel Weber (2013): Reconstructing Macroeconomics
- Cameron Okeke: I’m a black UChicago graduate. Safe spaces got me through college
- Penn World Table
- Elise Gould: Rising wage inequality continues to be a defining feature of the U.S. labor market
- Paul Krugman: How Complicated Does the Model Have to Be
- The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: August 24-August 30, 2006
- “Underrated” Weblogger of the Month: Branko Milanovic