Must- and Should-Reads: December 18, 2016
- Philip Stephens: How Brexit May Not Mean Brexit: “Referendums… become a device for demagogues and dictators: the people have spoken so now they must be silent ever more…
- Greg Sargent: @ThePlumLineGS: “A new CBS poll finds support for [ObamaCare] repeal has dropped 10 points since January, all the way down to 25%: https://t.co/5NnlgJbWhK https://t.co/kAmAAAIn3S“
- Matthew Yglesias: Trump is going to be mad when he hears what his appointees think about the TPP: “His top economic and foreign policy advisers love it (as do his other advisers)…
- Robbie Whelan and Esther Fung: China’s Factories Count on Robots as Workforce Shrinks: “Suzhou Victory Precision Manufacture Co.’s chairman, Yugen Gao, said the days when the company drew its strength from China’s cheap and hardworking employees are gone…
Interesting Reads:
- Kevin Drum: Now Even Conservatives Are Calling Them “Tax Cuts For the Rich”: “National Review editor Rich Lowry…. When was the last time you heard a conservative, let alone the editor of NR, refer to tax reform as a ‘traditional Republican’ ‘tax cut for the rich’? That’s the way liberals jeer at supply-side voodoo…. But now they are. What does this mean?”
- Katie Martin and Leo Lewis: Japanese banks warn of leaving London without Brexit clarity: Financial groups suggest relocating functions within 6 months to mainland Europe
- Matthew Klein: Who wins and loses from America’s transfer union?
- Simon Wren-Lewis: What Brexit and austerity tell us about economics, policy and the media
- Chye-Ching Huang and Paul N. van de Water: Millionaires the Big Winners From Repealing the Affordable Care Act
- Maryn McKenna: If Waffle House Is Closed, It’s Time To Panic
- Jeff Tollefson: Researchers baffled by nationalist surge
- Amanda Bayer and Cecilia Elena Rouse: Diversity in the Economics Profession: A New Attack on an Old Problem
- The History of Economics Society
- Douglas O. Staiger, James H. Stock, and Mark W. Watson (1997): How Precise Are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?: “Uncertainty arising from not knowing the parameters of the model at hand…
- Noah Smith (2015): Handing the baton to the next hyperpower
- Erik Brynjolfsson and John Silberholz: ‘Moneyball’ for Professors?:
- (Early) Monday DeLong Smackdown Watch: Has Macroeconomics Gone Right?
- Comment of the Day: Tim McDermott: Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge- and Network-Based Increasing Returns: “Years and years ago I heard an interview with a Carnegie Mellon computer science professor who taught the founders of Lycos…
- Regional Policy and Distributional Policy in a World Where People Want to Ignore the Value and Contribution of Knowledge- and Network-Based Increasing Returns
- Has Academic Thinking About Countercyclical Fiscal Policy Changed?