Must- and Should-Reads: January 5, 2016
- Martin Wolf: Risks that Threaten Global Growth: “Consistent growth is a relatively recent phenomenon…
- Nicholas Bloom et al.: Are Ideas Getting Harder to Find?: “In many growth models… the long-run growth rate is the product of… the effective number of researchers and… research productivity…
- Noah Smith: Who Is Responsible When an Article Gets Misread?: “How much of the responsibility for understanding lies with the writer of an article, and how much with the reader?…
- Paul Krugman: Trade and Manufacturing Employment: “America used to be a nation where a lot of people worked in manufacturing…
- Mark Wu: The ‘China, Inc.’ Challenge to Global Trade Governance: “The rise of China presents a major challenge to the multilateral trade regime…
- Evan Soltas: On Twitter: “Why Trump has only “charlatans and cranks” for economic advisors, in one graph.” https://t.co/CGb7nJNTlI https://t.co/6g2DwptZ0A
- Eric Holthaus: @EricHolthaus: “2016 the warmest year measured https://t.co/zmL9tEwWkA
- Olivier Blanchard: In Light of the Elections: Recession, Expansion, and Inequality: “What happens to the US economy depends mainly on the balance between macroeconomic and trade measures…
- Tim Burke (2005): Book Notes: _Theory’s Empire_: “Some other points that emerge along the way… strike me as important…
- Timothy Martin: The Champions of the 401(k) Lament the Revolution They Started: “Herbert Whitehouse, formerly a Johnson & Johnson human-resources executive, was one of the first proponents of the 401(k)…
Interesting Reads:
- Joseph Antos and James Capretta: The Problems With ‘Repeal And Delay’
- Lawrence Summers: Repatriated Cash Won’t Boost Investments
- Moses Abramovitz (1986): Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind: Journal of Economic History 47:2 (Jun., 1986), pp. 385-406
- Jessica Shankleman and Chris Martin: Solar Could Beat Coal to Become the Cheapest Power on Earth
- Antonio Fatas and Larry Summers: Hysteresis and fiscal policy during the Global Crisis
- CSPAN: Philippe Aghion and Heather Boushey Discuss Economic Growth and Inequality
- Mike Konczal and Marshall Steinbaum: It’s Still Not the Supply Side: Yes, workers should be able to move and work freely. But economics remains fundamentally about power. A response to Steve Teles’s contribution to the “What’s Holding Us Back” symposium
- Steve Teles: Competitive Egalitarianism: How to Structure Markets
- Nick Bunker: The (Updated) Definitive Ranking of Econ Twitters
- Comment of the Day: Kaleberg: Paul Krugman: Trade and Manufacturing Employment: “The general rule has been that when a robot costs $75K to replace a worker, that worker goes…
- Live from Chicago: American Economic Association: The Nature of Capitalism and Secular Stagnation: Chair: Matias Vernengo…
- The Neoliberal Bet: Tu Hoisted/W History