Must- and Should-Reads: May 8, 2017
- Peter Coy: Piketty’s Capital Was So Popular There’s a Sequel: “Another hefty volume that looks at the connection between capitalism and inequality… https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-08/piketty-s-capital-was-so-popular-there-s-a-sequel
- Thomas Piketty: After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality http://amzn.to/2qSUgdl: “Had I believed that the one-dimensional neoclassical model of capital accumulation…
- After Piketty: “The Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue | 1201: Elebash Recital Hall | May 11, 2017: 6:30 PM http://www.gc.cuny.edu/publicprograms…
- Thomas Piketty: Lessons from “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” http://amzn.to/2qgPIRE: “I would like to see Capital in the Twenty-First Century as a work-in-progress of social science…
- Raj Chetty et al.: Trends in US absolute income mobility since 1940: “Under the current distribution… we would need real GDP growth rates above 6% per year to return… http://voxeu.org/article/trends-us-absolute-income-mobility-1940
- Nick Bunker: What’s going to reduce U.S. corporate savings?: “What, then, is behind the rise in corporate savings?… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/whats-going-to-reduce-u-s-corporate-savings/
Interesting Reads:
- Egor Timurovich Gaĭdar (2012): Russia: A Long View https://books.google.com/books?id=yyzZDy2jXwAC
- (2003): Bequests: An Historical Perspective http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/Econ_Articles/Estates/DeLongEstatesMunnell.pdf
- Randall Morck, ed. (2007): _A History of Corporate Governance Around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers…” https://books.google.com/books?id=F6_fngEACAAJ
- (2014): The Debt Ceiling in Historical Perspective http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/06/the-debt-ceiling-in-historical-perspective.html
- Jason Furman: The Role of Economists in Economic Policymaking https://piie.com/system/files/documents/furman20170427.pdf
- Martin Ravallion: Arguments against basic income are straw men: “More universality and less fine targeting would create better social policies…” http://voxeu.org/article/arguments-against-basic-income-are-straw-men
- Globalization in the Crosshairs: Trade, Jobs, Inequality, Globalization, Robots II http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/05/globalization-in-the-crosshairs-trade-jobs-inequality-globalization-robots-ii.html
- Reflecting on Masterclasses in Rhetoric Taught in Recent Videos… http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/05/reflecting-on-masterclasses-in-rhetoric-taught-in-recent-videos.html
- “After Piketty” at Harvard University Press http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/05/after-piketty-at-harvard-university-press.html
- “After Piketty” Publication Day http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/05/after-piketty-publication-day.html
- Monday Smackdown: “Neo-Fisherism” in Monetary Economics as a “Sokal” Hoax http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/05/monday-smackdown-neo-fisherism-in-monetary-economics-as-a-hoax.html