Noted for the Morning of October 23, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Michael Clemens: The South Pacific Secret to Breaking the Poverty Cycle
• Martin Wolf: Lunch with the FT: Ben Bernanke
• Adair Turner: Debt Déjà Vu
• Eduardo Porter: The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor
• Tim Duy: Fed Struggles With The High Water Mark
• Marshall I. Steinbaum and Bernard A. Weisberger: Economics was Once Radical: Then It Decided Not to Be
• Nick Bunker: A look at U.S. tax rates at the top
• Brad Plumer: The math on staying below 2°C of global warming looks increasingly brutal
• Paul Krugman: Rethinking Japan
• Kenneth Thomas: “The gist of the three cases is that tax haven subsidiaries of each company (Starbucks in the Netherlands, Fiat in Luxembourg, and Apple in Ireland) were given advance tax rulings by each country that [the EU judged] were so removed from economic reality as to constitute illegal subsidies (‘state aid’ in Euro-speak) under EU competition law…”

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Mary Furner (1975): Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905
• Andrew Lambert: Nelson, Trafalgar, and the Meaning of Victory
• • Associated Press: US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years (it’s OK, they survived)
• Mark Zuckerberg: A Year of Books