Must- and Should-Reads: October 7, 2017
- Bridget Ansel: Weekend Reading: “occupational segregation” edition: “Even as income inequality spiraled over the past fifty years, America’s child-poverty rate was cut in half…
- Equitable Growth: Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: September 2017 Report Edition: “The prime employment rate hit a new high for this expansion, rising to 78.9 percent in September…
- Joan Williams: Equitable Growth in Conversation: “Elites have what are called entrepreneurial networks—wide circles of acquaintances that are often national, or even global… https://equitablegrowth.org/in-conversation/equitable-growth-in-conversation-joan-williams/
- Randall Morck and Bernard Yeung: East Asian Financial and Economic Development: “Japan, an isolated, backward country in the 1860s, industrialized rapidly to become a major industrial power by the 1930s… http://www.nber.org/papers/w23845
- Annette Alstadsæter, Niels Johannesen, and Gabriel Zucman: : “The equivalent of 10% of [annual] world GDP is held in tax havens globally…
- Olivier Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers: Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy: “The Peterson Institute will hold a conference on ‘Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy’…
- Paul Krugman: The Transfer Problem and Tax Incidence: “I’ve spent three decades pointing out the fallacy of the doctrine of immaculate transfer…
- Peter Leyden: California Is the Future/span>: “Ground Zero: San Francisco…
- In-Koo Cho and Kenneth Kasa: Model Averaging and Persistent Disagreement: “Two agents construct models of an endogenous price process…
- Bob Margo: The integration of economic history into economics: “Many have noticed this long-term integration of economic history into economics…
- Peter Leyden et al.: Future of Work http://reinvent.net/events/event/future-of-work-kickoff-event/ | http://reinvent.net/events/event/future-of-work-kickoff-event-23-panel/ | http://reinvent.net/events/event/future-of-work-kickoff-event-33-panel-2-qa/ | http://reinvent.net/events/event/future-of-work-kickoff-event-44-breakout-sessions-conclusion/: “I’m Pete Leydon, and I am the founder of Reinvent…
Interesting Reads:
- Tim Dickinson: Jerry Brown’s California Dream: “The governor has created a climate-resistant, economically supercharged state – is this the blueprint for a more progressive America?…”
- Paul Krugman: The Transfer Problem and Tax Incidence: “Openness… makes a lot less difference to tax incidence than people seem to think…. If you’re trying to assess the effects of tax policies over the next decade, a closed-economy analysis is probably closer to the truth than one that assumes instant equalization of returns across nations…” https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/the-transfer-problem-and-tax-incidence-insanely-wonkish/?smid=tw-share&_r=0
- Jake VanderPlas: Frequentism and Bayesianism: A Practical Introduction http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/03/11/frequentism-and-bayesianism-a-practical-intro/
- Ceci Rouse: Interviewed by Lisa Barrow
- Ramesh Ponnuru: Trump Needs a Nimble Fed Chair, Not a Hawk or a Dove: “Kevin Warsh is always looking for inflation. Can he do what it takes to fight a recession?…
- Weekend Reading: Noah Smith, Also, Misses the Old John Cochrane, and Wonders Where He Went: Health-Care Blogging EditionI
- Weekend Viewing: Bradley A. Hansen: A Do It Yourself Video Course on Modern Economic Growth