Must- and Should-Reads: February 3, 2017
- Mark Roe: Surviving the Next Housing-Market Hurricane: “illiquid real estate cannot solidly underpin a stable market for overnight obligations forever…
- Martin Wolf: Donald Trump Will Not Bring US Jobs Back: “Blame foreigners first. This strategy is always the companion of aggrieved nationalism…
- Tim Duy: Was Kevin Warsh Really A Fed Governor?: “Kevin Warsh’s column in Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal was so riddled with errors and misperceptions…
- Henry Farrell: The Thousand Day Reich: Civil Society: “Ethnic nationalism (and–to extend Gellner’s thought a little to the US context–religious fundamentalism)…
- Steve Randy Waldman: Party Polarization Is Endogenous: “Centrist wonks lament party polarization…
Interesting Reads:
- Tyler Morning Telegraph: It’s time for Texas leaders to defend NAFTA
- Justin Fox: The Growing Burden of the ‘Trump Tax’
- Brett Israel: Berkeley Development Engineering awarded $3 million from National Science Foundation
- Benjamin Montmartin and Nadine Massard: Is financial support for private R&D always justified? A discussion based on literature on growth
- Ernest Gellner: Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals
- Ernest Gellner Resource Page
- Guillermo Ortiz: Mexico has been a good neighbour for America: Trump’s Nafta narrative is at odds with reality: the pact benefits both economies
- Ben Thompson: Interview with Stewart Butterfield of Slack
- Economist: In Defence of NAFTA
- Statement for the BBC on the Disruption of Berkeley Speaker Event on February 1, 2017:
- Comment of the Day: Altoid: The Thousand Day Reich: Civil Society: “We are re-litigating the Enlightenment…
- Trade Deals and Alternative Facts: Now Fresh at Project Syndicate
- Guest Post: Joshua Gans: The University of Toronto May Be Able to Help You…