Must- and Should-Reads: March 13, 2017
- The Employment Situation
- Noah Smith: Trump’s Industrial Rebirth Is a Dead End: “President Donald Trump’s economic adviser, Peter Navarro, has vowed to restore U.S. manufacturing supremacy…
- Via David Mack: Paul Ryan: Repealing ObamaCare: “The whole idea of Obamacare is…
- Rui Pedro Esteves and Coşkun Tunçer: Eurobonds Past and Present: “Debt mutualization in Europe… pre-1914 guaranteed bonds and current Eurobonds…
- Sarah Kliff: Tom Price is lying about the GOP health plan: “Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price made a bold promise during a Sunday morning interview with Meet the Press…
- Paul Krugman: Smart Republicans?: “Sarah Kliff, in the new VoxCare newsletter, is puzzled by the apparent disagreement among Republicans about what CBO is likely to say…
- Aaron Carroll: The AHCA Doesn’t Make Sense: “I’m having a really hard time with this…
- Ben Thompson: Breaking Down the Father on BBC Being Interrupted by His Children: “There seemed to be a special resonance to this clip of a father in South Korea…
- Kevin Drum: Trump OMB Director Claims Obama “Manipulated” the Unemployment Figures: “Along comes OMB Director Mick Mulvaney…
Interesting Reads:
- Steve Randy Waldman: You tell me it’s the institution
- Matthew Klein (2015): Greenspan’s bogus “conundrum”
- Cardiff Garcia: Donald Trump: Peronist? A chat with Sebastian Edwards on populist economics
- Michael D. Giandrea and Shawn A. Sprague: Estimating the U.S. labor share
- John van Reenen et al.: Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share: NBER Working Paper No. 23108
- Matthew Yglesias: The Republican health plan is a huge betrayal of Trump’s campaign promises
- Clearing the Way: How Can Government Promote Shared Prosperity?
- Live from a university that seems to need some very different IT managers
- Live from the Republicans’ Self-Made Gehenna: Kevin Drum: Emperor’s Clothes Blogging: “I’ve been trying to figure out how to respond to the Republican health care plan…
- Live from the Republicans’ Self-Made Gehenna: Steve M.: Why Did Republicans Write a Terrible Health Care Bill? Liberal Fascism!: “Commentary’s Noah Rothman argues that the bill is terrible because, in this authoritarian culture, conservatives are silenced…
- Weekend Reading: Abraham Lincoln (1854): Kansas-Nebraska
- Reading: Richard Baldwin (2017):The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
- Reading: Margherita Bottero and Björn Wallace: Is There a Long-Term Effect of Africa’s Slave Trades?: “Nunn (2008) found a negative relationship between past slave exports and economic performance within Africa…
- Talking Points: Noah Smith: Trump’s Industrial Rebirth Is a Dead End: “President Donald Trump’s economic adviser, Peter Navarro, has vowed to restore U.S. manufacturing supremacy…
- Talking Points: The Employment Situation Feb 2017: Nearly every indicator except the headline unemployment rate suggests an economy with no labor-side inflationary pressure and substantial headroom for cyclical growth…