Must- and Should-Reads: September 23, 2017
- Nick Bunker: Weekend reading: “Discussing distributional tables” edition: “The decline in the start-up firms across the U.S. economy is now a well-documented and troubling trend. Ben Casselman reports… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/weekend-reading-discussing-distributional-tables-edition/
- Joshua Gans: Danny Kahneman on AI versus Humans: “At our AI conference last week, Nobel Laureate Danny Kahneman was commenting on a paper by Colin Camerer: https://digitopoly.org/2017/09/22/kahneman-on-ai-versus-humans/
- John Cole: Damn I Love The Jag and the Jet and the Mansion: “Graham/Cassidy… bad policy… will devastate many GOP states… hurt tens of millions… https://www.balloon-juice.com/2017/09/23/damn-i-love-the-jag-and-the-jet-and-the-mansion/
- Nisha Chikhale: Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit is worth exploring in the U.S. tax reform debate : “The Grow American Income Now, or GAIN, Act proposed by Rep. Khanna and Sen. Brown… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/expanding-the-earned-income-tax-credit-is-worth-exploring-in-the-u-s-tax-reform-debate/
- Jacob Levy: Black Liberty Matters: “‘How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?’… https://niskanencenter.org/blog/black-liberty-matters/
- Matthew Yglesias: : The economy really is broken — but we know how to fix it: “The top 5 percent includes all the members of Congress and all of the donors and lobbyists and business leaders whom members of Congress speak to… https://www.vox.com/2017/9/19/16319416/broken-economy
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Revolution of Information Economics: The Past and the Future: “The economics of information has constituted a revolution in economics… http://www.nber.org/papers/w23780
- Ann Marie Marciarille: Eat Out Much?: “With 16 dead and well over 400 documented as infected, it is fair to say San Diego is in the midst of an epidemic of Hepatitis A… http://www.marciarille.com/2017/09/eat-out-much.html
- Jacob Leibenluft et al.: Like Other ACA Repeal Bills, Cassidy-Graham Plan Would Add Millions to Uninsured, Destabilize Individual Market: “Cassidy-Graham Block Grant and Medicaid Per Capita Cap Cut Federal Funding for Most States by 2026… https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/like-other-aca-repeal-bills-cassidy-graham-plan-would-add-millions-to-uninsured
- Pseudoerasmus: The 25 most stimulating economic history books since 2000: “Allen, The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective… https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/01/12/9351/
Interesting Reads:
- David Leonhardt: Senator Cassidy, Please Stop Lying about Health Care https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/21/opinion/cassidy-graham-health-care.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
- David Beckworth: The Future Path of the Monetary Base and Why It Matters http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-future-path-of-monetary-base-and.html
- David Byrne and Dan Sichel: The productivity slowdown is even more puzzling than you think http://voxeu.org/article/productivity-slowdown-even-more-puzzling-you-think
- Joe Gagnon: : The Fed Buys into Secular Stagnation: “The FOMC’s estimate of the so-called neutral federal funds rate had declined from 4¼ percent a few years ago to 3 percent earlier this year and is now only 2¾ percent. With the federal funds rate currently near 1¼ percent, the Fed is almost halfway through its tightening cycle…” https://piie.com/blogs/realtime-economic-issues-watch/fed-buys-secular-stagnation
- Comment of the Day: JEC: “ANY COMMUNITY… FLOURISHES ONLY WHEN OUR MEMBERS FEEL WELCOME AND SAFE…”: “I see a couple of persistent misconceptions in this discussion…” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/comment-of-the-day-jec-any-community-flourishes-only-when-our-members-feel-welcome-and-safe-i-see-a-couple-of.html