Must-Reads: August 7, 2016

• Gauti Eggertsson and Lawrence Summers: How Secular Stagnation Spreads and How It Can Be Cured
• George Akerlof (2001): Writing the “The Market for ‘Lemons'”: A Personal Interpretive Essay
• Brad Setser: Why Is The IMF Pushing Fiscal Consolidation in the Eurozone in 2017

Should Reads:

• Guesstimate
• Jesse Singal: Why Some of the Worst Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals: “Alice Dreger’s Galileo’s Middle Finger is about what happens when… science makes a claim that doesn’t fit into an activist community’s accepted worldview…”
• John Springford et al.: Brexiting yourself in the foot: Why Britain’s eurosceptic regions have most to lose from EU withdrawal
• Martin Sandbu: Helicopter money: if not now, when?
• Ryan Avent: Upside-down economics: Bigger budget deficits in America: the crazy policy or the sane one?
• Chad Stone et al.: A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
• Jessica Tasman-Jones: Eric Lonergan: ‘Major break with history’: Is Term Funding Scheme Carney’s most radical tool?
• Andrew Watt et al.: An economic policy reset is now essential
• Manila Galleon
• Abdel Ibrahim: Why I think Apple Watch 2 will be a big leap
• Tierney Sneed: GOP Voters Stage Major Revolt Against Brownback’s Kansas Experiment