Must-Reads: August 29, 2016
- : Puncturing the Malthus Delusion: Structural change in the British economy before the industrial revolution, 1500-1800: Accounts of structural change in the pre-modern British economy vary substantially…
- Matt Levine: Hedge Fund Results: Since the end of 2011, hedge funds as a whole have (1) produced negative alpha and (2) added almost $900 billion of assets…
- James Hamilton: Too Systemic to Fail: Bryan Kelly at the University of Chicago, Hanno Lustig at Stanford and Stijn van Nieuwerburgh….
- Megan McArdle: Health Care Is a Business, Not a Right: You’ll die without food long before you’ll die without health care, and yet few people say we need to “take the profit motive out of farming”…
Should Reads:
- Karl Gunnar Persson: Bread and Enlightenment: the quest for price stability and free trade in eighteenth-century Europe: The baker of last resort and his critics…