Must- and Should-Reads: September 19, 2017
- Ann Marie Marciarille: Patent Transfer to Trigger Sovereign Immunity Defense: “It is absolutely fascinating to read that that Allergan and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe have reportedly made arrangements for transfer of certain patent rights… http://www.marciarille.com/2017/09/patent-transfer-to-trigger-state-action-immunity-defense.html
- George Akerlof (1979): The Case against Conservative Macroeconomics: An Inaugural Lecture: “The old classical economics bases its case against the efficacy of fiscal policy on the low interest elasticity of money demand… http://delong.typepad.com/2553741.pdf
- Santiago Perez: Railroads and the Rural to Urban Transition: Evidence from 19th Century Argentina: “Seminar 211, Economic History:
Seminar: Economic History | September 18 | 2-4 p.m. | 597 Evans Hall… http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/econ.html?view=summary&timeframe=range&startdate=2017-08-01&enddate=2017-12-31&filter=Secondary%20Event%20Type&filtersel=1057 - Josh Bivens and Dean Baker (2016): The Wrong Tool for the Right Job: “Raising interest rates is a poor strategy for managing asset bubbles… http://cepr.net/images/stories/reports/bubbles-2016-05.pdf
- Jeffrey Friedman: TRUMP VOTERS AND ECONOMIC GRIEVANCES (IT’S THE MEDIA, STUPID): “This economic theory of Trump’s victory is attractive because it tracks many Trump voters’ words… https://niskanencenter.org/blog/trump-voters-economic-grievances-media-stupid/ll
- Liz Hipple: Weekend reading: “labor markets and income” edition: “Tax reform is unlikely to benefit workers, argues Kimberly Clausing… https://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/weekend-reading-labor-markets-and-income-edition/
- Jerry Taylor: How to Change Public Opinion: “Political scientists… offer a pretty good road map for those who want to effectively go about “waging and winning the war of ideas”… https://niskanencenter.org/blog/how-to-change-public-opinion/
- David Card and A. Abigail Payne: High School Choices and the Gender Gap in STEM: “Women who graduate from university are less likely than men to specialize in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM)… http://www.nber.org/papers/w23769.pdf
Interesting Reads:
- Adrianna McIntyre et al.: Small Change, Big Consequences — Partial Medicaid Expansions under the ACA http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1710265
- Niskanen Center: The Niskanen Center supports the Grow American Incomes Now (GAIN) Act: “Sherrod Brown… and… Ro Khanna… Grow American Incomes Now… joined by 50 cosponsors. The legislation doubles the Earned Income Tax Credit for working families, and more than doubles the maximum credit for childless adults…” https://niskanencenter.org/blog/press-release-niskanen-center-supports-grow-american-incomes-now-gain-act/
- Economic History Association: Macroeconomic Regimes and Policies: the Quest for Economic and Financial Stability and Growth: “77th Annual Meeting ● September 15-17, 2017 San Jose, California…” http://eh.net/eha/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/EHA-2017-BrochureFinal1.pdf
- The People History: Electrical goods and appliances in the 1950’s: “Imagine You Could Go Shopping For Electrical Goods And Appliances In The 1950’S…” http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html
- Charles Petzold: The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine http://amzn.to/2vYkkXk
- Matthew Yglesias: @mattyglesias on Twitter:: “Rand Paul fighting for Kentucky’s Medicaid funding while pretending to be an ideological purist is a fascinating dynamic….” https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/908689977147568128
- SIX GRADUATE STUDENT POSTERS FROM THE ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/six-graduate-student-posters-from-the-economic-history-association-annual-meeting.html
- TIME FOR ME TO TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT NANCY MACLEAN’S “DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS”! http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/09/time-for-me-to-take-another-look-at-nancy-macleans-democracy-in-chains.html