Must- and Should-Reads: February 17, 2017
- Martin Sandbu: Donald Trump’s Love of Manufacturing Is Misguided: “Donald Trump and his economic team love manufacturing…
- Nick Bunker: What’s Behind the Decline in U.S. Interest Rates?: “Eggertsson, Mehrotra, and Robbins decompose the roughly 4 percent decline in the natural rate of interest since 1970…
- Richard Baldwin: Trump’s Anachronistic Trade Strategy: “Trump has aggressively lashed out against globalization…
- Tirthankar Roy: Were Indian Famines ‘Natural’ Or ‘Manmade’?: “I review the theories of Indian famines and suggest that a mainly geographical account…
- David Anderson: A BFD that Passed amongst the Chaos: “Repeal and Replace or Repeal and Delay and Pray is dead…
- Charles Wyplosz: When the IMF Evaluates the IMF: “Two critical mistakes are not mentioned…
- Ben Thompson: DistroKid, The “Publisher’s Right”, Shopify’s Results: “As I’ve noted… the old value chain had three parts: supply — distribution — demand…
- David Anderson: Governing Is Hard: “The Republican Party has an ACA problem. The ACA is deficit reducing…
Interesting Reads:
- Jurgen Habermas: The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry Into a Category of Bourgeois Society (Cambridge: MIT Press; 0262081806) <http://amzn.to/2kYHbPt>
- * Michael C. Desch, ed.* (2016): Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits? (South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press:0268100241) <http://amzn.to/2kvYOr7>
- Peter Fritzsche (2016): An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler (New York: Basic Books: 0465057748) <http://amzn.to/2kErdH0>
- Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov (2009): Secular Cycles (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 0691136963) <http://amzn.to/2kvXWmI>
- Jason Long and Joseph Ferrie: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850
- Martin Sandbu (2015): Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 069116830X) <http://amzn.to/2kvemXt>
- Paul Blustein (2016): Laid Low: Inside the Crisis That Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF (New York: CIGI Press: 1928096255) <http://amzn.to/2kvpWlz>
- Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage: Duncan Black: Does No One Tell Him?: “Constant lying… about his massive electoral college victory…
- (Early) Monday Smackdown: Outsourced to Kevin Drum
- (Early) Monday Smackdown: Garland Tucker: If We Don’t Honor John C. Calhoun, We Will Forget How Awful He Was
- Is It Good If Your Work Becomes More Valuable?
- Live from Inside the Nazi War Machine: Among the most interesting documents from the Third Reich: Franz Halder: Diary
- Economic Change and “Technological” Change…