Noted for Lunchtime on November 2, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Brad DeLong: On the Proper Size of the Public Sector, and the Proper Level of Public Debt, in the Twenty-First Century: The Honest Broker for the Week of October 26, 2015
• Paul Krugman: Flexible Illusions
• Paul Krugman: I do not think that word…
• Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg et al.: What Does a Deductible Do?: The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics
• Olivier Blanchard et al., eds.: Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy
• Mark Thoma: Defending The Bush Deficits
• Ken Rogoff: The Fed’s Communication Breakdown by Kenneth Rogoff
• Aaron Carroll: Death panels die, not with a bang, but with a whimper | The Incidental Economist
• Roger Farmer: Secular Stagnation: A Neo-Paleo-Keynesian Perspective

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Byron York: Harwood’s assertion–that the Tax Foundation estimates that Rubio’s tax plan would “give nearly twice as much of a gain in after-tax income to the top 1 percent as to the people in the middle of the income scale”–was correct…. The only thing to quibble with is Harwood’s assertion that 27.9 percent is ‘nearly twice’ 15.8 percent…”
• Robert Farley: “No one thinks attacking Mrs. Clinton from the left is likely to turn the most liberal Democrats into Republican voters. But Steven Law, president of American Crossroads, said the goal was simply to erode what should be her natural core of support. ‘It can diminish enthusiasm for Hillary among the base… lukewarm support can translate into lackluster fund-raising and perhaps diminished turnout…’”
• Aaron Carroll: “I… find it hard to ignore the… randomized controlled trials…. The Polyp Prevention Trial failed to show any effect of a low-fat, high-fiber, fruit-and-vegetable diet on tumor recurrence even after eight years of follow-up tests. The Women’s Health Initiative… 50,000 women… could not show that a change in diet reduced the risk of colorectal cancer…. The W.H.O.’s announcement makes trials like these much less likely to occur in the future, even though they haven’t shown meat to be harmful. After all, if the W.H.O. has declared that processed meat causes cancer, how can we ethically randomize people to eat it?…”
• Scott Lemieux: The Waaaaambulance Manifesto: Only Republicans possess the firm leadership to complain about being asked mildly challenging debate questions
• Matthew Yglesias: Star Trek movies and TV series: Which are the best? Why? | Star Trek rankings: movies, TV series, villains, and crew members from best to worst