Must- and Should-Reads: March 21, 2017
- Nicholas Bagley: The GOP Obamacare replacement would help the rich, hurt the poor and unleash chaos: “Republicans have finally released their long-awaited alternative to the Affordable Care Act…
- Anton Howes: Inducing Ideas for Industrialisation: “Perhaps the most popular modern theory of the causes of the Industrial Revolution is Robert C. Allen’s “Induced Innovation”…
- Nancy LeTorneau: There Is No Grand Strategy to Repeal Obamacare: “The Congressional Budget Office… released their report…. What we’ve seen from conservatives/Republicans/the White House since then…
- Andrew Neather: Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris: “Ian Morris… argues that key societal values…
- Bob Christie: 380,000 Arizonans May Lose Medicaid: “The report looks at the patients who gained coverage under a Medicaid expansion pushed through in 2013 by former Gov. Jan Brewer…
Interesting Reads:
- Bruce Sterling: Speech at SXSW2017
- Matthew Yglesias: Paul Ryan says he’s been “dreaming” of Medicaid cuts since he was “drinking out of kegs”: At last, a chance to take people’s health insurance away…
- Ian Morris: Why the West Rules–for Now: Econ 210b: Hoisted from the Archives
- On Nicholas Lemann’s Partial Recantation of His “Neoliberalism”: Hoisted from the Archives
- Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Nickel and Dimed”: Hoisted from the Archives