Must- and Should-Reads: December 14, 2016
- Brad DeLong (2013): Who Are the Foes of Expansionary Fiscal Policy? And Why?: “I am finding it difficult to make progress because it is not clear to me who the audience… who we should be trying to convince of what…
- Nick Bunker: What Could Boost U.S. Business Investment?: “German Gutierrez and Thomas Philippon… why business investment… has been so lackluster since the turn of the 21st century…
- Should-Read: Chris Isidore: Carrier to Ultimately Cut: “Union boss on Trump feud: I called him out…
- Simon Wren-Lewis: Ann Pettifor on Mainstream Economics: “Unfortunately her piece is spoilt by a final section that is a tirade against mainstream economists which goes way over the top…
- Ryan Avent: The Hole at the Heart of Economics: “For many of the most important questions within economics…
Interesting Reads:
- Lawrence H. Summers (2004): The U.S. Current Account Deficit and the Global Economy
- Ta-Nehisi Coates: My President Was Black: A history of the first African American White House—and of what came next
- Tressie McMillan Cotton: President Obama’s Faith in White America is Misguided: The president’s optimism about race blinded him to the pervasiveness and stubborn persistence of racism.
- Jacob Levy: The Defense of Liberty Can’t Do Without Identity Politics: Since Hayek’s time, liberalism has become more, and more self-consciously, amenable to what’s sometimes (and usually derisively) called “identity politics.” This is progress to hold onto, not a mistake to be abandoned…
- Max Auffhammer: Milton Friedman is dead…
- What Is the Excellence of an Economist?: I have been thinking about John Maynard Keynes’s observations on the mysterious difficulty of being a first-class economist that I quoted a while ago (H)
- Musings: Donald Trump Ought Not to Be a Hard-Money Gold-Standard Austerian Pain-Caucus President
- Bob Allen and Friends: Before the Industrial Revolution