Must-Reads Up to the Morning of December 8, 2015

  • Manuel Funke, Moritz Schularick, and Christoph Trebesch: The Political Aftermath of financial Crises: Going to Extremes: “Far-right parties are the biggest beneficiaries…”
  • Paul Krugman: That 30s Show: “Europe’s underperformance is slowly eroding the legitimacy, not just of the European project, but of the open society itself…” :: As John Maynard Keynes wrote 80 years ago…. “It may be possible by a right analysis of the problem to cure the disease while preserving efficiency and freedom…”
  • Ramez Naam: Why Energy Storage is About to Get Big–and Cheap
  • Lawrence Summers: Central Bankers do Not Have as Many Tools as They Think: “The unresolved question that will hang over the economy is how policy can delay and ultimately contain the next recession. It demands urgent attention” :: A government that does not only fail to work to generate high-pressure now, but also lacks a plan for fighting the next recession…
  • Jason Furman on residential housing supply, NIMBYism, and economic growth
  • Martin Longman: We’ve Grown Apart: “There are some ways in which MSNBC and Fox News are mirror images of each other… devoted to making the other party look bad. But Fox News is also committed to making blacks look bad…’ :: [Perhaps] this is a good sign… that racial prejudice is no longer assumed and presumed…

December 8, 2015

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