Must- and Should-Reads: December 21, 2016
- Ben Thompson: Reconsidering Uber: “Part 2 is far better, and in many respects redeems the series…
- Simon Wren-Lewis: Understanding Free Trade: “There you have, in one calm and measured paragraph, the contradiction at the heart of the argument…
- Laurel Lucia and Ken Jacobs: California’s Projected Economic Losses under ACA Repeal: “[With] repeal [of] the Affordable Care Act (ACA), 3.7 million Californians enrolled in the Medi-Cal expansion would lose that coverage…
- John Muellbauer: Why Central Bank Models Failed. How to Repair Them: “At the core of representative agent DSGE models is the Euler equation for consumption…
- Gideon Lewis-Kraus: The Great A.I. Awakening: “Google Translate, the company’s popular machine-translation service, had suddenly and almost immeasurably improved… (M)
Interesting Reads:
- Christopher Blattman and Stefan Dercon: Industrial jobs versus self-employment in Ethiopia
- Gideon Rachman: The Chaotic Route to Train-Crash Brexit…