Must- and Should-Reads: December 6, 2016
- Richard Mayhew: The Core of the Fight: “Actuarial value and subsidy level is the core element of the coming fight on Medicare…
- Izabella Kaminska: The Taxi Unicorn’s New Clothes: “[Hubert Horan:] ‘For the year ending September 2015, Uber had GAAP losses of $2 billion…
- Noah Smith: An Econ Theory, Falsified: “Almost every theory is falsifiable to some degree… since almost every theory is just an approximation…
- Friedrich Engels (1888): Notes to the “Communist Manifesto”: “(4)…. Generally speaking, for the economical development…
- Nicholas Bagley: Health Insurance Market Implosion: “The big risk of [ObamaCare] repeal-and-delay (well, one big risk) is that the individual insurance market will unravel before repeal takes effect. As Robert Laszewski tartly noted…
- Neville Morley: When It Changed: “Eric Hobsbawm[‘s]… short twentieth century… [an] idea… found in Stefan Zweig’s Die Welt von Gestern…
- James Kwak: The Deduction Fairy: “Incoming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin promised a big tax cut for corporations and the ‘middle class’, but not for the rich…
- T.M. Scanlon: Giving Desert Its Due: “Here the relevant critical point was made by Rawls…
- Diego Daruich, William Easterly, Ariell Reshef: The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations: “Specializations are surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones…
Interesting Reads:
- Bill Janeway: The Retreat from Hyper-Globalization: “Flows of Goods and Services, People and Capital Have Overwhelmed the Ability of Political Processes to Accommodate Them”
- “Hitherto It Is Questionable If All the Mechanical Inventions Yet Made Have Lightened the Day’s Toil of Any Human Being” Context Blogging
- Euthyphro
- Matthew Klein: What’s up with the “term premium”?
- Parrots, Laissez Faire, Supply and Demand, and Political Economy
- Weekend Reading: Abraham Lincoln: State of the Union Address (December 3, 1861)
- Weekend Reading: Debating What’s Wrong With Macroeconomics
- Storify: The “Long” vs. the “Short Twentieth Century…
- The One Best Way We Does the Tell of the History of the Twentieth Century…
- T.M. Scanlon
- T.M. Scanlon: What We Owe to Each Other http://amzn.to/2gCFSDW
- Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism
- Evan Goldstein: The New Intellectuals