Must-Reads: September 9, 2016
- Tim Duy: Is Pushing Unemployment Lower A Risky Strategy?: Fed hawks are pushing for a rate hike sooner than later in an effort to prevent the economy from “overhearing”…
- Heidi Shierholz: The Myth of Job Polarization: In the first few years of the recovery, growth was very strong in very low-wage jobs that pay $10 per hour or less. This is typical…
- Brad Setser: What To Do When Countries With Fiscal Space Won’t Use It?: Fiscal policy alone doesn’t determine the current account….
- Claudia Sahm: Telling Macro Stories with Micro: Economists are avid storytellers…
- Kaila Colbin: The Real Reason This Elephant Chart Is Terrifying: A shock-and-awe wake-up call about the nature of exponentially accelerating technology…
Should Reads:
- Stephen D. Oliner and Daniel E. Sichel (2000): The Resurgence of Growth in the Late 1990s: Is Information Technology the Story?
- Fiona Cameron Maclachlan: The Ricardo-Malthus Debate on Underconsumption: A Case Study in Economic Conversation
- David Hill: AI Teaching Assistant Helped Students Online—and No One Knew the Difference
- Ethan Zuckerman, Alexis Hope, Emilie Reiser: Technology and Social Change
- Must-Read: John Maynard Keynes (1936): The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money: Chapter 24
- Follow-Up Questions on the Philosophy of Probability: Hoisted from the Archives