Must- and Should-Reads: January 29, 2017
- Francis Wilkinson: Women Delivered a Body Blow to Trump’s Populism: “If Trump embodies the people, who were those millions of bodies insisting that he doesn’t represent them?…
- Larry Summers: Economy under Trump: Plan for the Worst: “There has not been so much anxiety about U.S. global leadership or about the sustainability of market-oriented democracy at any time in the past half-century…
- Noah Smith: The Ways That Pop Economics Hurt America: “Someone needed to write a book about how economic theory has been abused in American politics…
- Kevin Drum: NAFTA Is Really Not a Big Deal: “How big an impact did NAFTA have on the US economy?…
- Bill McBride: These Are Not Normal Times: “These are not normal times…
- David Anderson: Trump and the Global Creative Class: “Amitabh Chandra: ‘Immigration ban and the fear they create is a giant tax on US universities and US innovation… research and R&D will move abroad’…
- Benjamin Wittes: Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence: Trump’s Horrifying Executive Order on Refugees and Visas: The malevolence of President Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly…
- Alan Smith and Federica Cocco: The huge disparities in US life expectancy in five charts: “Inequality means that individuals in the US have very different experiences…
Interesting Reads:
- Gary Cohn (investment banker)
- Donald Trump is already an awful president: Peregrine Fissell: Americans Think Trump Will Be an Awful President
- Kevin Drum: Yet Again, Republicans Demonstrate the Mean-Spiritedness at the Dark Heart of Their Party
- Steve M.: Republicans Aren’t Cowards For Falling in Line Behind Trump—They’re Worse
- Dean Clancy: Why Trump and the GOP Won’t Repeal and Replace Obamacare
- Chad Stone: No One Wins Trade Wars: Trump’s ‘America first’ trade policy will be bad for working Americans…
- Michael L. Dertouzos, Robert M. Solow, and Richard K. Lester (1989): Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (Cambridge: MIT Press: 0262041006) <http://amzn.to/2kH6JSv>
- Stephen S. Cohen and John Zysman (1987): Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy (New York: Basic Books) <http://amzn.to/2kGX65V>
- Vaclav Smil (2013): Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (Cambridge: MIT Press: 0262528355) <http://amzn.to/2kg52u6>
- Sue Helper: Supply Chains and Equitable Growth
- Philip Delves Broughton: America business is the master, not victim, of globalisation: If businesses saw more value in investing in US workers, they could have done so…
- My Keynes Lecture, and Reviews of Skidelsky’s Keynes Biography
- Wanted: A Readable Polanyi…
- Links for the Week of January 29, 2017
- No. NAFTA Didn’t Kill American Manufacturing Employment: Afterthoughts 5
- For the Weekend…: Postmodern Jukebox: Paparazzi
- We Are Live and Ready to Go with Reddit AMA: http://reddit.com/r/IAMA
- Weekend Reading: Bonnie Kristian: We’re All Public Intellectuals Now