Must- and Should-Reads: June 5, 2017

• Simon Wren-Lewis: GE2017 and the Stages of Leaver Grief: “The EU knows that No Deal would be a disaster for the UK… https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-stages-of-leaver-grief.html
• Reuters: Fed’s Harker Still Sees Two More Interest Rate Hikes in 2017: “Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank President Patrick Harker said on Friday that the U.S. central bank remains on track… https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2017/06/02/business/02reuters-usa-fed-harker.html
• Luciano Floridi: A fallacy that will hinder advances in artificial intelligence: “The best definition of AI was written in 1955 by US computer scientist John McCarthy and colleagues… https://www.ft.com/content/ee996846-4626-11e7-8d27-59b4dd6296b8

Interesting Reads:

• Brad Delong (2007): When I met Armey in 1994… he talked a very good game as a committed small-government fiscally-prudent libertarian conservative…. Yet Armey punted on this agenda at almost every opportunity… when he was Majority Leader: Questions for Dick Armey http://www.bradford-delong.com/2007/06/questions_for_d.html
• Kevin Drum: In Which I Waste a Lot of Time on Climate Change Yahooism http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/06/waste-time-climate-change-yahooism
• Douglas Clement: Interview with Hilary Hoynes https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/interview-with-hilary-hoynes
• Stan Collender: This Is Why OMB Director Mulvaney Should But Won’t Be Fired https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/06/04/this-is-why-omb-director-mulvaney-should-but-wont-be-fired/#4445750c5ba3
• Primo Levi (1988): The Drowned and the Saved http://amzn.to/2ssz4MJ
• Charles Maier: On Agency, History, and Collective Responsibility: “Responsibility for a burdened past can justifiably become less preoccupying as other experiences are added to the national legacy…. But like that half-life of radioactive material, there is no point at which responsibility simply goes away…” http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/TCEH/maier.html
• Charles Maier (1988): The Unmasterable Past http://amzn.to/2rpDGF6
• Economist: Sorry, we’re closed: The decline of established American retailing threatens jobs: “A love affair with shopping has gone online…. A giant established industry is descending into crisis. Last year about 4,000 shops closed their doors for good. In 2017 more than twice that number may shut, says Credit Suisse…” http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721900-love-affair-shopping-has-gone-online-decline-established-american-retailing
• Martin Longman: How to Win Rural Voters Without Losing Liberal Values: “A century ago, urban progressives and agrarian populists united around a politics of taking on corporate monopolies. The Democratic Party’s future may depend on doing the same today…” http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/junejulyaugust-2017/how-to-win-rural-voters-without-losing-liberal-values/
• Doug Merrill (2007): Five Germanys I Have Known by Fritz Stern | A Fistful Of Euros http://fistfulofeuros.net/afoe/five-germanys-i-have-known-by-fritz-stern/
• Norman Davies (2011): Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations http://amzn.to/2sz9a9s
• Michael Mann (2012): The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760 http://amzn.to/2rBjctx
• Noah Smith: The Shouting Class http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-shouting-class.html
• Austin Nichols: Do Vouchers Lead to Greater Learning? Depends Where (and When) You Look http://www.abtassociates.com/Perspectives/March/Do-Vouchers-Lead-to-Greater-Learning-Depends-Where.aspx
• Pedro da Costa: Why the job market doesn’t feel like it’s back to normal http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-job-market-doesnt-feel-like-its-back-to-normal-2017-3 | Fed to raise rates in June but September still in question http://www.businessinsider.com/fed-to-raise-rates-in-june-but-september-still-in-question-2017-5
• Brad DeLong (2006): Socialism with German Nationalist Characteristics: “It is hard to avoid the belief that there was a way out of the disaster–a way to beat the Nazis even at the end of 1931–and that if only Rudolf Hilferding and his ilk had been less blinkered ideologues who sought truth from old books rather than new facts, the SPD could have led a German ‘New Deal’ that would have been as great a success as Roosevelt’s New Deal in America….” http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/10/socialism_with_.html 2006-10-30
• Chad Bown: Economics and policy in the Age of Trump http://voxeu.org/content/economics-and-policy-age-trump
• Rachael Ray: Chickpea and Tomato Penne Pasta http://www.rachaelray.com/recipe/chickpea-and-tomato-penne-pasta/
• 天安門廣場: June 4, 1989 http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/%E5%A4%A9%E5%AE%89%E9%96%80%E5%BB%A3%E5%A0%B4-june-4-1989.html
• Links for the Week of June 4, 2011 http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/links-for-the-week-of-june-4-2011.html
• Hoisted from Ten Years Ago: Back When I Was Much More Optimistic About New Media and the Public Sphere… http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/highlighted-hoisted-from-ten-years-ago-back-when-i-was-much-more-optimistic-about-new-media-and-the-public-sphere.html
• Hoisted from the Archives from June 3, 2007: I Like Barack Obama’s Health Care Plan http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/hoisted-from-the-archives-from-june-3-2007-i-like-barack-obamas-health-care-plan.html
• Weekend Reading/Hoisted: Nine from Fritz Stern’s Memoirs http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/weekend-readinghoisted-nine-from-fritz-sterns-memoirs.html
• Weekend Reading: Leon Trotsky’s Not-Entirely-Reliable-Narrator View of Lenin’s New Economic Policy of the 1920s http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/weekend-reading-leon-trotskys-not-entirely-reliable-narrator-view-of-lenins-new-economic-policy-of-the-1920s.html
• Weekend Reading: Corey Robin: Second Edition of The Reactionary Mind now available for order http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/weekend-reading-corey-robin-second-edition-of-the-reactionary-mind-now-available-for-order.html
• Comment of the Day: Robert Waldmann: Why Is the FOMC So Certain the U.S. Is “Essentially at Full Employment”?: “Two things. One small and one very dubious…” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/06/comment-of-the-day-robert-waldmann-_why-is-the-fomc-so-certain-the-us-is-essentially-at-full-employment_-two-thi.html