Must-Reads: July 21, 2016

• Maury Obstfeld: A Spanner in the Works: An Update to the World Economic Outlook
• Andrew McAfee: “As the world becomes flat, talent, entrepreneurship, and VC $ become more concentrated…”
• Topher Spiro, Maura Calsyn, and Meghan O’Toole: Bigger Is Not Better: Proposed Insurer Mergers Are Likely to Harm Consumers and Taxpayers

Should Reads:

• EPI: A 21st Century View of the Role of Government
• Jacques Mallet du Pan (1793): Considerations on the Nature of the French Revolution
• John Swain: Trump backer speaking at RNC, billed as boss of 100,000, employs zero workers
• David Beckworth: The Fed is Trapped in a Rate Hike Talk Cycle
• David McLaughlin and Sara Forden: U.S. Said Readying Suits Against Anthem, Aetna Insurer Deals
• Matthew Klein: Stop pretending America’s housing boom had nothing to do with lending standards
• Amir Alexander: The Rise of the Kludges: “Samuel Arbesman… who trained as [a] computational biologist argues convincingly… that our systems have grown too complex to handle…”
• Today’s Economic History: The Vineyard of Copanis