Must-Reads: July 30, 2016

• Joel Mokyr (2015): Culture of Growth: Origins of the Modern Economy
• Olivier J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers (1986): Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem
• Michael Kalecki (1943): Political Aspects of Full Employment
• Ananya Roy: In Defense of “Poverty”

Should Reads:

• Louis Johnston: The Growth of the Service Sector in Historical Perspective: Explaining Trends in U.S. Sectoral Output and Employment, 1840-1990:
• Rowan Jacobsen: Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here
• Nicholas Lardy: China’s SOE Reform—The Wrong Path
• James Pethokoukis: Pulling up the drawbridge: America and ‘authoritarian populism’