Must- and Should-Reads: July 30, 2017
- Should-Read: Bridget Ansel: Weekend reading: “#hipsterantitrust edition”: https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/weekend-reading-hipsterantitrust-edition/
- Should-Read: Bridget Ansel: Has the momentum around paid leave reached a tipping point in the United States? https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/has-the-momentum-around-paid-leave-reached-a-tipping-point-in-the-united-states/
- Should-Read: Austin Clemens: Will the United States give up on data collection? https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/will-the-united-states-give-up-on-data-collection/
- Andy Slavitt: @ASlavitt on Twitter: “Trump plans to sabotage the ACA this week… https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/891722458855866369
- Simon Johnson: Trump’s Growth Charade by Simon Johnson – Project Syndicate: “Officials in President Donald Trump’s administration frequently talk about getting annual economic growth in the United States back above 3%… https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/trump-administration-growth-assumption-by-simon-johnson-2017-07
- Avik Roy: An Autopsy of the GOP Effort to Repeal and Replace Obamacare: “Moderate Republican senators, often representing purple or blue states, were reluctant both philosophically and politically to endorse legislation that increased the number of Americans without health insurance… http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/449943/autopsy-gop-effort-repeal-and-replace-obamacare
- Craig Garthwaite: Why replacing Obamacare is so hard: It’s fundamentally conservative: “As a life-long Republican… I’ve come to an answer that will be hard for many conservatives to swallow… https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-replacing-obamacare-is-so-hard-its-fundamentally-conservative/2017/07/10/c5d64634-6351-11e7-84a1-a26b75ad39fe_story.html
- Antonio Fatas: On Twitter: “Healthcare is complicated but Greg Mankiw should criticize policy proposals that are incoherent or just lie about their benefits…” https://twitter.com/AntonioFatas/status/890979381719511044
- Simon Wren-Lewis: UK slowdown is a result of Brexit and austerity: “Those who argued that Brexit would bring a short term slowdown have been proved right: they just got their timing slightly wrong… https://mainlymacro.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/the-uk-slowdown-is-result-of-brexit-and.html
- Martin Longman: A Glimpse Back at the Old Senate: “two stories I found last night while researching my Murkowski-Collins defection piece… http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/07/27/a-glimpse-back-at-the-old-senate/
- Neera Tanden and Tophir Spiro: The bipartisan way to strengthen health care: “Provide greater certainty for insurers by guaranteeing continued payments of ACA subsidies, a step that could help reduce average premiums by as much as 19 percent… https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-bipartisan-way-to-strengthen-health-care/2017/07/18/b2e2b444-6bef-11e7-b9e2-2056e768a7e5_story.html
- Dylan Scott: The Obamacare repeal debate is now a completely bonkers game of chicken: “On Thursday evening, mere hours before the Senate is supposed to vote on a health care bill, the United States Capitol is in chaos… https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/27/16053268/senate-obamacare-repeal-chaos
- Mike Bird and Christopher Whittall: The Speech That Transformed European Markets—Five Years Later: “European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi…. ‘Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro and believe me: It will be enough’… https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-speech-that-changed-european-marketsfive-years-later-1501061404
- Martin Feldstein: How Would Health-Care Reform Affect Patient Health?: “People who qualify for Medicaid do receive substantially more care than those without formal insurance… https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/us-health-care-reform-medicaid-cuts-by-martin-feldstein-2017-07
- Kenneth P. Brevoort, Daniel Grodzicki, and Martin Hackmann: Medicaid and Financial Health https://www.fdic.gov/news/conferences/consumersymposium/2016/documents/brevoort_presentation.pdf:
Interesting Reads:
- XPostFactoid: “Not losing, choosing”?-Avik Roy turns up the gaslight on the BCRA http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2017/07/not-losing-choosing-avik-roy-turns-up.html
- Tom Chivers: These People Are Trying To Fix A Huge Problem In Science https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/signifying-nothing
- Prakash Loungani: Inequality of Opportunity, Inequality of Income, and Long-term Growth: “From a new IMF report… ‘a robust negative effect of widening income disparities on growth in presence of high inequality of opportunity’…” http://unassumingeconomist.com/2017/07/inequality-of-opportunity-inequality-of-income-and-long-term-growth/
- Adair Turner: Is Productivity Growth Becoming Irrelevant? https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/is-productivity-growth-becoming-irrelevant
- Justin Fox: Yes, Financial Crises Do Bring Hangovers – Bloomberg: “Can we blame our current struggles on the 2008 collapse and its subsequent fallout? We’d be wrong to discount it…” https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-20/yes-financial-crises-do-bring-hangovers
- Steve Attwell: I’m Back!: “Malignant tumor in my left leg… amputation above the knee…. When I heard Republican Congressmen talking about how only people who’ve led “good lives” deserved coverage for pre-existing conditions, I would scream at the monitor that the idea that health is tied to moral virtue is a medieval fantasy…. When the ACHA eliminated the Essential Health Plan I became one of the people whom the Republican caucus was out to kill…” http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/07/im-back
- Zev Ross: Beautiful plotting in R: A ggplot2 cheatsheet http://zevross.com/blog/2014/08/04/beautiful-plotting-in-r-a-ggplot2-cheatsheet-3/#quicksetup-the-dataset
- BondDad: The Bonddad Blog: Why John Taylor—a Leading Candidate to Replace Yellen—Shouldn’t Be Fed Chair http://bonddad.blogspot.com/2017/01/why-john-taylor-leading-candidate-to.html
- Cardiff Garcia: When Keynes pondered Malthus https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2017/07/26/2191314/the-lessons-of-keynes-pondering-malthus/
- Sanjay K. Chugh: Modern Macroeconomics http://skchugh.com/teachingmanuscript.html
- Peter Ganong and Daniel W. Shoag: Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined? http://papers.nber.org/tmp/53599-w23609.pdf: “A dramatic decline in… population flows to high-income places… coincid[ing] with a disproportionate increase in housing prices in high-income places, a divergence in the skill-specific returns to moving to high-income places, and a redirection of low-skill migration away from high-income places… a new panel measure of housing supply regulations, we demonstrate the importance of this channel in the data…”
- Kevin O’Rourke: Keynote: Globalization in the Aftermath of the Crisis http://www.imf.org/en/News/Seminars/Conferences/2017/06/21/globalization-in-the-aftermath-of-the-crisis-Kuala-Lumpur
- Ríos-Rull: SI 2017 Consumption: Micro to Macro http://papers.nber.org/sched/SI17EFACR
- What Should We Be Ready to Do After the Next Nuclear Fire?… http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/07/after-the-next-nuclear-fire.html
- Comment of the Day: HOW WOULD HEALTH-CARE REFORM AFFECT PATIENT HEALTH?… http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/07/comment-of-the-day-how-would-health-care-reform-affect-patient-health-who-whom-john-donne-great-uncle-ernest-hemingwa.html
- Comment of the Day: JEC: HOW WOULD HEALTH-CARE REFORM AFFECT PATIENT HEALTH?: “I’d also point out that Marty is performing the ‘null hypothesis bait-and-switch’, which relies on nobody noticing that you’ve swapped the maintained and null hypotheses…” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/07/comment-of-the-day-jec-how-would-health-care-reform-affect-patient-health-id-also-point-out-that-marty-is-performin.html
- Comment of the Day:: Charles Steindel: MONDAY SMACKDOWN: REPUBLICAN ECONOMISTS BURN YET MORE OF THEIR REPUTATIONS DEPARTMENT…: “John F. Cogan, Glenn Hubbard, John B. Taylor, and Kevin Warsh… a very odd comment in their report…” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/07/comment-of-the-day-charles-steindel-monday-smackdown-republican-economists-burn-yet-more-of-their-reputations-departme.html