Must-Reads: October 25, 2016
- Simon Wren-Lewis: Neoliberalism and Austerity: “Austerity could [not] have happened on the scale that it did without this dominance of this neoliberal ethos…
- Paul Krugman: Debt, Diversion, Distraction: “There was a time… when deficit scolds were actively dangerous…
- Daniel Boffey: Brexit: leading banks set to pull out of UK early next year: Anthony Browne, head of the British Bankers’ Association, warns that major lenders are poised to hit relocate button
- Brahman: [A Few Thoughts on Finance and BREXIT…][]: “Trouble is that even @MarkFieldMP MP for the City can’t be bothered to fight to stay within the Single Market…
- Izabella Kaminska: The Robot Revolution May Be Exaggerated: “UBS is back… 34-page[s]… re-shoring and automation trend much touted by tech utopians as the silver lining to the [globalization] reversal may be exaggerated…
- Ricardo J. Caballero and Alp Simsek: A Model of Fickle Capital Flows and Retrenchment: Global Liquidity Creation and Reach for Safety and Yield: “Gross capital flows are very large and highly cyclical…
- Joe Weisenthal: @TheStalwart: “Per Goldman, the biggest contributors to the LFPR rebound were drops in the disabled and ‘don’t want a job’ category.”
Should Reads:
- Catherine Caruso: Scientists “Switch Off” Self-Control Using Brain Stimulation: A clever experiment pinpoints the brain region involved in taking the perspective of our future selves or that of others
- Jeni Asaba: Debate over: IBM confirms that Macs are $535 less expensive than PCs
- Bethany Brookshire: Blame bad incentives for bad science
- Why Did Keynes Write “In the Long Run We Are All Dead”?
- Sean M. Carroll and Charles T. Sebens: Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty
- W. H. Zurek (1981): Pointer basis of quantum apparatus: Into what mixture does the wave packet collapse?