Must- and Should-Reads: March 29, 2017
- Steve M.: I Know This Sounds Wacky, but I Think Trump and Bannon Are Actually Conservatives: “The Donald Trump administration didn’t come into office holding out an olive branch to Chuck Schumer… and The Washington Post’s Fred Hiatt finds that baffling…
- Stephen Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz: The Fed’s Price Stability Achievement: “US monetary policy has been the target of substantial criticism over the years…
- Ronald Klain (2016): It’s a Trap!: “President-elect Donald Trump’s infrastructure plan: Don’t do it. It’s a trap…
- Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, and Gabriel Zucman: Economic growth in the US: A Tale of Two Countries: “Given the generation-long stagnation of the pre-tax incomes among the bottom 50% of wage earners in the US…
- Noah Smith: The Blogs vs. Case-Deaton: “Selection effects are very real…
Interesting Reads:
- Caitlin Green: A very long way from home: early Byzantine finds at the far ends of the world
- Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn‐Steffen Pischke: Undergraduate Econometrics Instruction: Through Our Classes, Darkly
- Peter Lindert (1996): What Limits Social Spending?
- Tamim Bayoumi and Barry Eichengreen: Aftershocks of monetary unification: Hysteresis with a financial twist
- Peter Sullivan: Top House Republicans favor funding key ObamaCare payments: “GOP lawmakers previously filed suit against the Obama White House over the payments, arguing they were being made unconstitutionally, without a congressional appropriation. Now, after last week’s failure of the House GOP’s ObamaCare replacement bill, top Republicans say they realize they need to fund the payments…”
- Michael T. Kiley and John M. Roberts: Monetary policy in a Low Interest Rate World: “Nominal interest rates may remain substantially below the averages of the last half-century…
- John Judis: Can Donald Trump Revive American Manufacturing? An Interview With High-Tech Expert Rob Atkinson
- Jonathan Baker: Market power in the U.S. economy today
- Adrian Penalver: The natural rate of interest: estimates for the euro area
- Leah Boustan: What Mid-Century White Flight Reveals about the Trump Electorate
- Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth (2006): Why England? Demographic factors, structural change and physical capital accumulation during the Industrial Revolution
- Brad DeLong: Interview: The Politics Guys