Must- and Should-Reads: February 12, 2017

• Scott Lemieux: There Will Never Be A Republican Replacement for the ACA, Cont’d: “There’s no alternative to the ACA that 1) could get a non-trivial amount of Republican support and…
• Mary Amiti and David Weinstein: Why shocks to large banks cause big GDP swings: “Banks are large relative to the economies they serve…
• Facundo Alvaredo et al.: Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.WORLD: “Global inequality dynamics involve strong and contradictory forces…

Interesting Reads:

• Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito: World trade, 1800-1938: a new data-set
• Zachary Tracer et al.: U.S. Health Insurance Mergers Killed as Companies Plot Next Move
• Doug Staiger and James Stock (1997): Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments
• (2001): Kaiping Mines: Memorandum of Agreement Between Chang Yen-Mao and Herbert Hoover
• Peter Lee (2006): China Matters: Herbert Hoover: Made in China
• Peter Lee (2006): China Matters: Last of the Muckrakers: An Appreciation of Walter Liggett
• Peter Lee (2006): China Matters: The Coolie Quagmire: Flogging, Sodomy, and Imperial Overreach on the Rand
• John Rawlinson: Li Hongzhang
• Zeng Guofan
• Rosa Luxemburg Blog: Think you know your leaders of the Second International?
• Emily Badger: Immigrant Shock: Can California Predict the Nation’s Future?
• Wired: Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware
• Aaron Carroll: How Would Republican Plans for Medicaid Block Grants Actually Work?
• Nicholas Bagley: The feds have been ordered to cough up risk corridor money
• Noah Smith: People Actually Use Food Stamps to Buy More Food
• Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser: International Trade
• Live from the Whirlwind: Sean Carroll (2008): Bose and Fermi: “The important distinction… is the “pile on top of each other”/”take up space” distinction…
• Martin Longman: Gorsuch’s Praise of David Sentelle Should Concern You