Must-Reads: December 7, 2016
- Simon Wren-Lewis: Hitting Back: “A reaction to reading this by Wolfgang Munchau…
- Wolfgang Munchau: The Elite’s Marie Antoinette Moment: “The Bourbons were hard to beat as the quintessential out-of-touch establishment. They have competition now…
- Kevin Drum: Obamacare Repeal Is Doomed: “Republicans. Can’t. Repeal. Obamacare…
- Simon Wren-Lewis: The OBR and the Impact of Brexit: “The debate about whether the OBR is being too pessimistic about the impact of Brexit…
- Martin Wolf: More Perils for the Eurozone: “Divergence in the performance of members of the single currency is a real challenge…
Interesting Reads:
- Michael O’Hare: The Oakland Warehouse Fire
- Martin Wolf: The Wages of Brexit are Bigger Debts
- 2016-07-12: Brexit: I Think Paul Krugman Is Confused Here…
- Irma Adelman (1990): Fifty Years of Economic Development: What Have we Learned?
- Artir: The Surprising Human Development Index of Cuba
- Sam Bowles: The Death of ‘Homo Economicus’
- Nancy LeTourneau: Chaos Over Obamacare “Repeal and Delay”
- Comment of the Day: Tim Worstall: John Stuart Mill (1848, 1871)]: “I’m unconvinced. I think this is the same mistake Keynes made with econ poss for the grandkiddies…
- Live from Nineteenth-Century London: John Stuart Mill (1848, 1871): Principles of Political Economy: “Hitherto it is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being…
- BREXIT, Trump, and Eurozone Breakup Odds
- Note to Self: If we want to have a better world, we either need to change the politics to restore the stabilization policy mission to fiscal authorities–and somehow provide them with the technocratic competence to carry out that mission–or give additional powers to central banks
- Comment of the Day: Howard: The Taxi Unicorn’s New Clothes: “I say both!…
- Live from Lancashire: Pseudoerasmus: Random Thoughts on Critiques of Allen’s Theory of the Industrial Revolution: “I love the work of Robert Allen…