Must-Reads: November 7, 2016
- Barry Eichengreen: Rethinking Capital Controls: “Worries persist that capital controls create a breeding ground for both corruption and distortions in resource allocation…
- Paul Krugman (2013): Phantom Crises: “Simon Wren-Lewis is puzzled by a Ken Rogoff column that sorta-kinda defends Cameron’s austerity policies…
- Paul Krugman (2008): The Rogoff Doctrine: “Ken Rogoff is one of the world’s best macroeconomists. But…
- Richard Mayhew: County Level Inequities in the ACA: “Health wonks like to say that the ACA is not a single program but fifty-one programs… works well in some states (California) and poorly in others (Arizona) and muddles through in most…
- FT: The Prevailing Case for Caution by Central Banks: “The US Federal Reserve signalled a high likelihood that interest rates will be raised when it meets next in December…
- Cosma Shalizi: Advanced Data Analysis from an Elementary Point of View: “It Is also important to be clear that when we find the regression function is a constant…
Should Reads:
- Simon Wren-Lewis (2013): Ken Rogoff on UK austerity
- Ken Rogoff (2013): Britain should not take its credit status for granted
- 2013: Kenneth Rogoff’s Hooverismo…
- Paul Krugman (2008): The Rogoff doctrine
- Comment of the Day: Rakesh Bhandari: Marx’s Half-Baked Crisis Theory and His Theories of Surplus Value, Chapter 17: Hoisted from the Archives from Five Years Ago: “To compensate for a falling rate of profit, capitalists must raise the level of investment.
- Note to Self: Inadequate Musings on Elements of Rogoff’s Debt Supercycle Hypothesis