Must- and Should-Reads: May 2, 2017
- *Nick Bunker: Should policymakers worry about the level of debt or the pace of credit growth?: “Other research on the impact of debt and credit on economic output has emphasized the role of household debt… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/should-policymakers-worry-about-the-level-of-debt-or-the-pace-of-credit-growth/
- Henry Farrell: The Thousand Day Reich: The Double Movement: “A simple Polanyian account of Trump and right wing populism would explain it… http://crookedtimber.org/2017/05/01/the-thousand-day-reich-the-double-movement/#comment-708419
- Arthur Goldhammer: The Piketty Phenomenon: “I will discuss anticipations of the book’s reception… show that even the most optimistic forecasts failed to predict the extent of the Piketty phenomenon… http://amzn.to/2pynukp
- Suresh Naidu: A Political Economy Take on W/Y: “The full political-economy equilibrium… lets us see the determinants of the wealth/income ratio… http://amzn.to/2pynukp
- UC Berkeley: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society: Othering & Belonging: “How Do We Think About, Talk About, and Give Birth to a World Where All Belong?_: “The Othering & Belonging Conference is a dynamic gathering over 2.5 days… http://conference.otheringandbelonging.org/
- Mark Thoma: The Demand for Education: “One of the most rewarding parts of deciding to go online 12 years ago… http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2017/03/the-demand-for-education.html
- Jeremy Cliffe: On Twitter: Today’s FAZ Report on May’s Disastrous Dinner with Juncker https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552: “Today’s FAZ report on May’s disastrous dinner with Juncker…
Interesting Reads:
- Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser: International Trade https://ourworldindata.org/international-trade
- Cardiff Garcia: US inflation back to undershooting 2 per cent ahead of FOMC meeting https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/05/01/2188052/us-inflation-back-to-undershooting-2-per-cent-ahead-of-fomc-meeting/
- Ben Thompson: Alphabet’s Earnings; Revisiting Peak Google, Again; How Mobile Helps Google: “The more that people use mobile to search, the more that Google ads are the only option…” https://stratechery.com/2017/alphabets-earnings-revisiting-peak-google-again-how-mobile-helps-google/
- John Boykin: UX Magazine http://uxmag.com/search-results?keyword=Boykin