Must- and Should-Reads: January 23, 2017
- Nicholas Bagley: Patching Obamacare at the State Level: “If Congress zeroes out the individual mandate—and my hunch is that it will—it’s game over for the exchanges…
- Xavier Jaravel: The Unequal Gains from Product Innovations: Evidence from the US Retail Sector: “From 2004 to 2013 higher-income households systematically experienced a larger increase in product variety and a lower inflation rate for continuing products…
- Larry Summers: Disillusioned in Davos: “I am disturbed by (i) the spectacle of financiers who three months ago were telling anyone who would listen that they would never do business with a Trump company…
- Charles Stross: Why Scifi Matters More When the Future Looks So Dangerous: “Near-future scifi is not a predictive medium: it doesn’t directly reflect reality so much as it presents us with a funhouse mirror view of the world around us…
- Robert Allen (2004): Progress and Poverty in Early Modern Europe: “At the end of the middle ages, the urban, manufacturing core of Europe was on the Mediterranean with an important offshoot in Flanders…
- Michael Klein, Edward Schumacher-Matos, and Miriam Wasserman: Econofact: About: “EconoFact is… to bring key facts and incisive analysis to the national debate on economic and social policies…
Interesting Reads:
- Robert Looney: Brazil’s Hard Road to Affluence
- James Kwak: Health Care and John D. Rockefeller’s Dog
- Kevin Drum: What Does It Take for the Press to Call a Lie a Lie?
- Has Protectionism Ever Worked?: DeLong FAQ
- Weekend Reading: Richard Feynman: Math and Science
- Weekend Reading: John Scalzi: The New Year and the Bend of the Arc