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Must-reads: January 4, 2016

Stan Fischer: Monetary Policy, Financial Stability, and the Zero Lower Bound I: “Are We Moving Toward a World With a Permanently Lower Long-Run Equilibrium Real Interest Rate?…” :: Very disappointing to me that both nominal GDP targeting and price path level targeting appear to be completely off of Stan Fischer’s radar
Thomas Piketty: Capital, Predistribution and Redistribution
Matthew Yglesias: 2015: The Year Congress Started Working Again

Tim Duy: A Look Ahead Into 2016
Kaushik Basu: The World Economy’s Labor Pains
Joel Mokyr (2010): The Contribution of Economic History to the Study of Innovation and Technical Change, in Bronwyn Hall and Nate Rosenberg (2010), The Handbook of the Economics of Innovation (Amsterdam: Elsevier), pp. 11-50.

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U.S. economic mobility trends and outcomes

U.S. income and wealth inequality are no longer increasing, but a return to the equitable levels of the mid-20th century isn’t likely anytime soon