Must-Reads: October 9, 2016
- Robert Waldmann: Benchmark, Model, and Hypothesis: “I imagine hopes followed by disappointments in the following order…
- Jason Furman: The New View of Fiscal Policy and Its Application: “A decade ago, the prevalent view about fiscal policy among academic economists could be summarized in four admittedly stylized principles…
- Noah Smith: Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age: “Speech that disseminates ideas is more valuable than speech whose purpose is to intimidate others…
- Ryan Avent: Welcome to a World without Work: “The digital revolution alters work in three ways… automation… globalisation… productivity…
- Larry Summers: Voters Sour on Traditional Economic Policy: “It is untenable to ignore public sentiment…
Should Reads:
- Cosma Shalizi (2004): Liberty! What Fallacies Are Committed in Thy Name!: This is an overly-long gloss on a really well-written post by Julie Saltman, which you should probably read instead…
- Brad Setser: The Scale of Korea’s Intervention in August
- Jon Henley and Philip Oltermann: Angela Merkel urges German firms to back tough stance in Brexit talks
- Barack Obama: The Way Ahead
- Zachary Bleemer et al.: Debt, Jobs, or Housing: What’s Keeping Millennials at Home?
- Jon Hesley: British Government bars foreign academics from advising on Brexit
- Weekend Reading: John Bell (1989): Against “Measurement”
- Michael O’Hare: Giving Management a Bad Name: “My graduate school at UC Berkeley has raised some funds and we are embarking on a new building… (Live from Overpaid Administrator Land)
- Comment of the Day: Kansas Jack: Benchmark, Model, and Hypothesis
- Mark Leon Goldberg: Meet the Next UN Secretary General: Antonio Guterres