Must- and Should-Reads: January 16, 2017
- Matthew Yglesias: Obama to Working Class Trump Voters: You Played Yourselves: “‘If every economic issue is framed as a struggle between a hardworking white middle class and undeserving minorities’…
- Manu Saadia: Why Peter Thiel Fears “Star Trek”: “Asked… whether he was a bigger fan of ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Star Trek’…
- Matthew Yglesias: Democrats Should Write Their Own “Terrific” Obamacare Replacement: “Protecting Medicare and Medicaid means you can’t… scrap the Medicaid expansion, and you can’t scrap the payment reforms to Medicare…
- Sharun W. Mukand and Dani Rodrik: _Ideas versus Interests: A Unified Political Economy Framework: “[We] distinguish between two kinds of ideational politics…
- Charles Wilson (1967): Trade, Society, and the State: “The two areas which in 1500 represented the richest and most advanced concentrations…
- Luigi Zingales: Donald Trump’s Economic Policies: Pro-Business, Not Pro-Market: “Trump is eliminating lobbyists by putting them in charge of all departments…
- Gillian Tett: Obama and the Audacity of Hindsight: “It is tempting to point out all the things that Obama could or should have done better…
- Paul Krugman: Infrastructure Delusions: “There will be no significant public investment program…
Interesting Reads:
- It seems that Pethokoukis’s “compromise” is simply “ObamaCare”. If he and his peers would just say that, things would be less messed up: James Pethokoukis: An ObamaCare compromise that Republicans and Democrats can both love
- Mark Thoma: Here’s what really caused the housing crisis
- Thomas Piketty: WID.world: new data series on inequality and the collapse of bottom incomes
- Kevin Drum: No, Tech Firms Are Not Huge Job Creators
- Marshall Steinbaum and Bernard Weisberger: When Economics Was Radical
- JEC: The Microfoundations Hoax: “When I call ‘microfoundations’ a hoax, I’m not kidding around. The only question is, what proportion of macroeconomists have perpetrated this hoax upon themselves, and what proportion has known this all along…”
- Ben Thomas: When Roman “Barbarians” Met the Asian Enlightenment
- For the Weekend…: Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khrushchev
- Weekend Reading: Adam Tooze: Goodbye to the American Century
- Building Tools: Growth
- For the Weekend…: Beyoncé & Tina Turner: Proud Mary
- Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 1
- Reading: Paul David (2005): Clio and the Economics of QWERTY
- George Orwell (1946): In Front of Your Nose