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Mark Thoma on the 2009-2015 Dark Age of macroeconomics: Weekend Reading

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Paul Krugman (2012): Economics in the crisis: Weekend Reading

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To a large extent the power of NIMBYism springs from the right-wing tax revolt of the 1980s: Issi Romem: America’s new metropolitan landscape: Pockets of dense construction in a dormant suburban interior

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We call them “AI”, but that confuses and distracts us: Michael Jordan: Artificial Intelligence—The revolution hasn’t happened yet

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Post-1500 Ottoman retardation and chronic plague?: Ulysse Colonna: Infectious, elegant and maybe wrong: Sketch for an explanation of the long divergence

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Weekend reading: “tax day” edition

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Trump is making more things wrong with Kansas: Joshua Green: Chinese sorghum tariffs will hit hard in Trump-friendly Kansas

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Why are such smart authors playing such small ball?: Abigail Wozniak and Jay Shambaugh: Why we need to help kids go to college wherever they want

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More evidence minimum wage laws blunt employer monopsony: Kevin Rinz and John Voorheis: The distributional effects of minimum wages