Must- and Should-Reads: November 18, 2016
- Brad Plumer: Donald Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Wouldn’t Actually Fix America’s Infrastructure Problems: “Donald Trump loves the idea of infrastructure… wants to make an infrastructure bill a priority in his first 100 days…
- Ann Pettifor: @annpettifor: “Read this for an explanation of George Osborne: https://t.co/UW0Tbo4BX9
- Paul Krugman (2015): Multipliers and Reality: “An exchange between Simon Wren-Lewis and Robert Waldmann… raises some interesting issues.
- PIIE: Conference on Income Inequality and Inclusive Growth
- Should-Read: Aaron Carroll: Will “Repeal and Delay” Be the Next “Doc Fix”?: “I’m seeing a lot of chatter on how one thing Republicans can do in January is ‘Repeal and Delay’…
- Duncan Weldon: Negative Yields, the Euthanasia of the Rentier, and Political Economy: “I understand the mechanics of engine that took us here but not what the driver was thinking…
Interesting Reads:
- Jeffrey J. Schott: TPP Could Go Forward without the United States:
- David Leask: Beyond Brexit: Scottish passport plan could allow Scots to keep working and living in Europe
- Benedict Anderson (1983): Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism http://amzn.to/2fYVq1e
- Ernest Gellner (1983): Nations and Nationalism http://amzn.to/2fYUg62
- Jonathan Woetzel: Closing California’s Housing Gap
- Thomas Piketty: We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail:
- Barry Eichengeeen: Three ways to make sense of the dollar in uncertain times: Haven status and policies will determine prospects for the economy and currency
- Weekend Reading: Neville Morley: Vicarious Virtue
- Note to Self: Why Donald Trump’s attempt to make trade policy his arena for rescuing America’s white want-to-be-blue-collar workers will fail
- Weekend Reading: Izabella Kaminska: Facebook and the Manufacture of Consent
- Note to Self: Imagined Communities vs. Nations and Nationalism
- Inclusive Growth?: PIIE Conference
- Radical Uncertainty, Political Risk, and Forecasting the Global Economy