Must- and Should-Reads: April 29, 2017
Branko Milanovic: El Super Clasico: Trade and Technology Duke It Out at CUNY: “The panelists seemed to agree… http://glineq.blogspot.com/2017/04/el-super-clasico-trade-and-technology.html
* Trade, Jobs, and Inequality http://www.gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/Calendar/Detail?id=38997: “CUNY :: The Graduate Center :: 365 Fifth Avenue :: C200: Proshansky Auditorium :: April 26, 2017: 6:30 PM http://www.gc.cuny.edu/publicprograms…
* INET: Education Initiative: “We are thrilled that you are joining us at the Berkeley Spring 2017 Education Convening, Friday, April 28th 9am-5pm Blum Hall, B100 #5570, Berkeley, CA 94720-5570… https://www.ineteconomics.org/education/curricula-modules/education-initiative
* Peter Ganong and Pascal Noel: Consumer spending during unemployment: Positive and normative implications: “We study… unemployment insurance… using de-identified data from nearly 200,000 bank accounts… https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/consumer-spending-during-unemployment/
* Nisha Chikhale: The importance of unemployment benefits for protecting against income drops: “Jesse Rothstein… and Robert Valletta… the role that unemployment insurance plays in supporting family incomes… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/the-importance-of-unemployment-benefits-for-protecting-against-income-drops/
* Dietrich Vollrath: Topics in Economic Growth: “I just created some new pages… https://growthecon.com/blog/Topics-Pages/
* Nick Bunker: Weekend reading: “Link pass-through entity” edition | Equitable Growth: “Arindarjit Dube summarizes his recent research on the effect of minimum wage hikes on family incomes… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/weekend-reading-link-pass-through-entity-edition/
Interesting Reads:
- Jesse Rothstein & Robert G. Valletta: Scraping by: Income and program participation after the loss of extended unemployment benefits | Equitable Growth: “We identify individuals whose jobless spells outlasted their UI benefits (exhaustees) and examine household income, program participation, and health-related outcomes…” https://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/income-after-loss-of-extended-unemployment-benefits/
- Kevin Drum: Quote of the Day: I Only Said NATO Was Obsolete Because I Didn’t Know Anything About NATO http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/04/quote-day-i-said-nato-was-obsolete-because-i-didnt-know-anything-about-nato
- Carol Atack: Three Views of Thucydides: https://anachronismandantiquity.wordpress.com/2017/04/24/three-views/
- Sonam Sheth: Merkel had to explain trade to Trump 11 times – Business Insider: “Ten times Trump asked if he could negotiate a trade deal with Germany…. On the eleventh refusal, Trump finally got the message, ‘Oh, we’ll do a deal with Europe then.’…” http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-trade-merkel-germany-eu-2017-4
- Nouriel Roubini: A Fiscal Reality Test for US Republicans: “The only sensible way to provide tax relief to middle- and lower-income workers is to raise taxes on the rich… a socially progressive populist idea that a pseudo-populist plutocrat like Trump will never accept…. Republicans will continue to delude themselves…” https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-republicans-tax-reform-failure-by-nouriel-roubini-2017-04
- Heather Boushey, Brad DeLong and Marshall Steinbaum: After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/heather-boushey-brad-delong-and-marshall-steinbaum-after-piketty-the-agenda-for-economics-and-inequality.html
- Trade, Jobs, and Inequality: CUNY http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/trade-jobs-and-inequality-cuny.html
- Trade, Jobs, and Inequality Video http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/trade-jobs-and-inequality-video.html
- Notes for Trade, Jobs, and Inequality: CUNY Event http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/notes-for-trade-jobs-and-inequality-cuny-event.html
- What Can Be Done to Improve the Episteme of Economics? http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/what-can-be-done-to-improve-the-episteme-of-economics.html
- (Late) Monday Smackdown: Robert Lucas Pretends… Edition http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/late-monday-smackdown-robert-lucas-pretends-edition.html
- Weekend Reading: Wolfgang Streeck: Trump and the Trumpists http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/weekend-reading-wolfgang-streeck-trump-and-the-trumpists.html
- (Early) Weekend Reading: Franz von Papen (June 17, 1934): Marburger Rede http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/early-weekend-reading-franz-von-papen-june-17-1934-marburger-rede.html
- Live from Microsoft Office Hell: Swift on Security: “How to figure out why the Excel file on the network share is locked https://twitter.com/Abzol/status/857251772078968832…” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/live-from-microsoft-office-hell-swift-on-security-_how-to-figure-out-why-the-excel-file-on-the-network-share-is-locked_.html
- Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage: Dan Drezner: Six different ways of looking at a Trump tweet: “Many people are saying that Trump’s tweets do not matter. I say they contain some very interesting insights https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/04/24/six-different-ways-of-looking-at-a-trump-tweet/…” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/should-read-dan-drezner-_six-different-ways-of-looking-at-a-trump-tweet_-many-people-are-saying-that-trumps-tweets-d.html