Must-Reads: September 12, 2016
- Mark Thoma: Diverting Attention From the Real Issues: Immigration is not the problem…. Immigrants do not lower the employment prospects for natives…
- Paul Krugman: Tobin Was Right: Tobin’s 1972 presidential address to the American Economic Association…
- Milton Friedman (1976): Inflation and Unemployment: A major factor in some countries and a contributing factor in others may be that they are in a transitional period…
- (1981): The Education of David Stockman: As budget director, [Stockman] intended to proceed against many of the programs…
- : Wealth Inequality and Monetary Policy: Explor[ing] the recent evolution of household wealth inequality in advanced economies by looking at valuation effects on household assets and liabilities….
- Mark Thoma: Labor Compensation and Labor Productivity: Just a quick reminder…
Should Reads:
- Holman Jenkins: Jack Bogle: The Undisputed Champion of the Long Run: Vanguard’s founder on 40 years of indexing success and how to invest in today’s ‘extremely risky world.’
- Noah Smith: Is Firefly Overrated?
- Economist: More Spend, Less Thrift: German budget surpluses are bad for the global economy
- IQ Books
- Eliot Peper: The Technological Trends That Will Shape the Next 30 Years: An interview with Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick at Wired Magazine and author of The Inevitable.
- Gender Matters
- Julian Kozlowski et al.: The origin of secular stagnation
- Weekend Reading: Paul Krugman (2011): Mr. Keynes and the Moderns
- 911: Never Forget
- Files Related to the Hutchins-Brookings Productivity Festival
- Slow Growth in Productivity: What Do We Know About “Why?” and “What Is To Be Done?”—Long