Must-Reads: August 13, 2016
- Storify: I Think Tyler Cowen Is Confused About Social Choice and Investment-Spending Hurdle Rates: Lower than 2%: That’s What the Social-Choice Calculus Produces, for Both Public Infrastructure and Private Capital
- Barry Eichengreen: Airing the IMF’s Dirty Laundry
- (2011): Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008
Should Reads:
- BI Intelligence: Adidas will open an automated, robot-staffed factory next year in Atlanta… where shoes will be produced entirely by robots…. The company outlined how the factory, dubbed the Speedfactory, will allow the company to manufacture shoes faster while bringing that production closer to US consumers…”
- Anton Howes: How Innovation Accelerated in Britain 1651-1851:
- Josh Bivens: Why is recovery taking so long—and who’s to blame?
- Yuliya Demyanyk et al.: Does Fiscal Stimulus Work when Recessions Are Caused by Too Much Private Debt?:
- Weekend Reading: Eve Fisher: The $3500 Shirt