Must-Reads: November 11, 2016
- John Perr: Inflation-Adjusted Federal Spending Has Fallen Under President Obama: “It is an article of conservative faith that federal spending under President Obama is ‘out of control’…
- Nathanael Johnson: What the New York Times missed with its big GMO story: “A big piece [by Danny Hakim] that made the front page of the New York Times… takes aim at…
- James Kwak: The Last Chapter Problem: “Bernstein, to his credit, gets the description of the problem out of the way in the first two chapters…
- Jie Sun et al. (2011): A Mathematical Model for the Dynamics and Synchronization of Cows: “We formulate a mathematical model for daily activities of a cow (eating, lying down, and standing) in terms of a piecewise affine dynamical system…
- Philip Stephens: America Can Survive Trump. Not so the West: “History can veer off course… in 1914… the first age of globalisation was consumed in the flames of the Great War… [in] the 1930s when economic hardship, protectionism and nationalism nurtured the rise of fascism…
- Ben Steverman: Advice for the Next President: Expand Social Security: “Is expanding Social Security the right thing to do? Is it even possible? Yes and yes, Jesse Rothstein argues…
- Fritz Minsky: @FritzMinsky: “Prescient analysis by @AdamPosen – ‘A Better Global Policy Mix by Accident?'” https://t.co/nKCxEp9iIK
- Noah Smith: Japan Shuts Down Its Monetary Lab: “People know that the central bank can break its promises at any time…
Should Reads:
- Chris Blattman: Academic job market advice for economics, political science, public policy, and other professional schools
- Thomas J. Leeper: It’s Different Over Here, and Here, and Here…
- Jeffrey Butler, Paola Giuliano, Luigi Guiso: Why We Get Whom to Trust Wrong
- Fernanda Nechio and Glenn D. Rudebusch: Has the Fed Fallen behind the Curve This Year?
- Nick Bunker: New research on market power and productivity
- Carola Binder: Political Pressures on the Fed and the Trump Presidency
- Andy Haldane: The Dappled World
- Mary E. Burfisher, Sherman Robinson and Karen Thierfelder (2001): The Impact of NAFTA on the United States
- (2010): The Origins And DemiseOf The Public Option
- Concrete Economics: Presentation Slides (Short Present-Focused Talk)