Must- and Should-Reads: February 21, 2017
- Dani Rodrik: Global Citizens, National Shirkers: “I know what a ‘global citizen’ looks like…
- Raj Chetty et al.: Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility: “We characterize rates of intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using administrative data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013…
- Jim Tankersley: Obama solved one economic crisis. It’s the second that haunts him: “If you worked a factory shift in Michigan in January 2009…
- Must-Read: Noah Smith: On Twitter: A Haiku for Humanity: “For a brief summer/We were valuable as/Microcontrollers”
Interesting Reads:
- Jonathan Chait: Paul Ryan’s Dream of Tax Cuts for Rich Will Not Be Denied: “Republicans have control of Congress, and even if nothing else comes out of it and everything else falls part, the richest one percent are going to get paid…
- Brian Buetler: The Great Government Breakdown Has Begun: “Trump is exercising zero restraint, and Republicans aren’t stopping him. Four years from now, the damage might be irreparable…
- Reading: Sukkoo Kim (2006): Division of Labor and the Rise of Cities: Evidence from US Industrialization 1850-1880
- Reading: Alexander Klein and Nicholas Crafts (2015): Agglomeration Economics and Productivity Growth, U.S. Cities, 1880-1930
- Reading: Richard Hornbeck and Daniel Keniston (2014): Creative Destruction: Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
- Reading: Hoyt Bleakley and Jeffrey Lin (2012): Portage and Path Dependence
- Lincoln’s Birthday Blogging
- On Marc Levinson and His “The Box That Changed the World”: Hoisted from the Archives
- Let’s Think Harder About the Role of Globalization in Wage Stagnation
- Monday Smackdown: Hoisted from the Archives: Levitt and Dubner’s “Superfreakonomics”: The Parable of Horseshit
- Twenty-First Century American Nationalism Needs to Be Profoundly Cosmopolitan