Must- and Should-Reads: January 8, 2017
- Middle-Age Mortality
- Neel Kashkari: Taylor Rule Would Have Kept Millions Out of Work: “Forcing the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) to mechanically follow a rule, such as the Taylor rule…
- Jonathan Bernstein: Republicans Really Can Pretend to Repeal Obamacare: “Sarah Binder hints that Republicans may wind up trying to get away with something even more cynical…
- George Steiner: A Kind of Survivor: “Nationalism is the venom of our age…
Interesting Reads:
- Pedro da Costa: Fed presidents and staff economists views on economy
- Wootz Steel
- Damascus Steel
- Liberty of the Savoy
- Daniel Gros
- pseudoerasmus: The Calico Acts: Was British cotton made possible by infant industry protection from Indian competition?
- Giancarlo Corsetti et al.: Macroeconomic stabilization, monetary-fiscal interactions, and Europe’s monetary union
- (2013): Moby Ben, or, The Washington Super-Whale: Hedge Fundies, the Federal Reserve, and Bernanke-Hatred
- Mark Thoma (2011): Does This Ease Your Worries?: US GDP from 1870-2008
- Martin Wolf: The long and painful journey to world disorder: As the era of globalisation ends, will protectionism and conflict define the next phase?
- Weekend Reading: Daniel Kahneman et al.: Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making
- Weekend Reading: John Hempton: When Do You Average Down?
- Three, Four… Many Secular Stagnations!
- Comment of the Day: Richard Mayhew: A Proposed Twitter-Interaction Strategy: Draining Your Part of Its Cesspool: “I disagree. If you aggressively curate your feed and act as a reciprocal gift giving monkey…
- Philipp Ager et al.: Killer Incentives: Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II