Must-Reads: September 28, 2016
- Blum Center: The Science of Scaling: Building Evidence to Advance Anti-Poverty Innovations: September 26 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, 100 Blum Hall, Haviland Road, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States The Development Impact Lab (DIL), headquartered at UC Berkeley and funded by USAID…
- Thomas Baekdal: What Killed The Newspapers? Google Or Facebook? Or…?: Google didn’t actually kill the newspaper advertising market…
- Noah Smith: Economics Has a Major Blind Spot: Economists often don’t take politics into account. As a result, econ models leave out important pieces, and the advice of economists often falls on deaf ears or is seen as impractical…
- Dani Rodrik: Put Globalization to Work for Democracies: Look closely at the economies that converged with richer counterparts — Japan, South Korea, China — and you see that each engaged globally in a selective, strategic manner…
- Hans-Werner Sinn: Secular Stagnation or Self-Inflicted Malaise?: Some economists believe that this is evidence of “secular stagnation”….
- Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva: A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation: We derive formulas for optimal linear and nonlinear capital income taxation…
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