Should-Reads: February 14, 2017
- Tim Duy: Fed’s Bullard Knows His Treasury Yield Curve: “Having tipped their toes in the water with two interest-rate hikes…
- Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (2016): Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution: “Watches were the first mass-produced consumer durable…
- Anton Cheremukhin et al. (2013): Was Stalin Necessary for Russia’s Economic Development?: “We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913…
- Peter Orszag: Here’s How Trump Will Change Obamacare: “I expect to see Republicans stage a dramatic early vote to repeal…
Interesting Reads:
- Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen: Hunger and Public Action: China and India
- Luis Bértola and Jeffrey Williamson: Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?
- Barbara Lewis Solow: British capitalism and Caribbean slavery : the legacy of Eric Williams
- Ian Buruma: The New Anti-Semitism
- Jason Furman: Border Adjustment as Tax Policy and as Macroeconomic Policy
- Live from the Trade War: What Trump Gets Wrong About Nafta: Everything!
- Live from the Trade War: Full Show: What’d You Miss? (02/13): In which I defend NAFTA…
- A Beat Sweetener for Gary Cohn!: Thuds and Screams from the Topkapi Palace
- Reading: Doug Staiger and James Stock (1997): Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments
- Reading: Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (2016): Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution
- Reading: Robert Solow (1974): The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics
- Monday Smackdown: Carbon Tax Revenue Reversal Department