Tag: roundup

• Richard Mayhew: The Core of the Fight: “Actuarial value and subsidy level is the core element of the coming fight on Medicare…
• Izabella Kaminska: The Taxi Unicorn’s New Clothes: “[Hubert Horan:] ‘For the year ending September 2015, Uber had GAAP losses of $2 billion…
• Noah Smith: An Econ Theory, Falsified: “Almost every theory is falsifiable to some degree… since almost every theory is just an approximation…
• Friedrich Engels (1888): Notes to the “Communist Manifesto”: “(4)…. Generally speaking, for the economical development…
• Nicholas Bagley: Health Insurance Market Implosion: “The big risk of [ObamaCare] repeal-and-delay (well, one big risk) is that the individual insurance market will unravel before repeal takes effect. As Robert Laszewski tartly noted…
• Neville Morley: When It Changed: “Eric Hobsbawm[‘s]… short twentieth century… [an] idea… found in Stefan Zweig’s Die Welt von Gestern…
• James Kwak: The Deduction Fairy: “Incoming Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin promised a big tax cut for corporations and the ‘middle class’, but not for the rich…
• T.M. Scanlon: Giving Desert Its Due: “Here the relevant critical point was made by Rawls…
• Diego Daruich, William Easterly, Ariell Reshef: The Surprising Instability of Export Specializations: “Specializations are surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones…

Interesting Reads:

• Bill Janeway: The Retreat from Hyper-Globalization: “Flows of Goods and Services, People and Capital Have Overwhelmed the Ability of Political Processes to Accommodate Them”
• “Hitherto It Is Questionable If All the Mechanical Inventions Yet Made Have Lightened the Day’s Toil of Any Human Being” Context Blogging
• Euthyphro
• Matthew Klein: What’s up with the “term premium”?
• Parrots, Laissez Faire, Supply and Demand, and Political Economy
• Weekend Reading: Abraham Lincoln: State of the Union Address (December 3, 1861)
• Weekend Reading: Debating What’s Wrong With Macroeconomics
• Storify: The “Long” vs. the “Short Twentieth Century…
• The One Best Way We Does the Tell of the History of the Twentieth Century…
• T.M. Scanlon
• T.M. Scanlon: What We Owe to Each Other http://amzn.to/2gCFSDW
• Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism
• Evan Goldstein: The New Intellectuals

• Richard Baldwin: @BaldwinRE: “You can’t vote against globalisation by voting against agreements that shape & control it…” https://t.co/AUn6bdczKF The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
• Sandra Black, Jason Furman, Laura Giuliano and Wilson Powell: Minimum Wage Increases and Earnings in Low-Wage Jobs: “18 states plus the District of Columbia have implemented minimum wage increases…

Interesting Reads:

• Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda: Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution: “From 1685 to 1810… the real price of watches… falls steadily by 1.3% a year…”
• Ed Crooks: What role for the workers in Trump’s American factory revival?: “In places like Buffalo there is evidence that US manufacturing has a bright future. It just does not look like a future that will include millions of new jobs…”
• Eric Hobsbawm (1987): The Age of Empire, 1870-1914 http://amzn.to/2gYsn2A
• Eric Hobsbawm (1995): The Age of Extremes, 1914-1989 http://amzn.to/2fOZYqt
• John Maynard Keynes (1919): The Economic Consequences of the Peace http://amzn.to/2gJE24B
• John Stuart Mill (1871): Principles of Political Economy http://amzn.to/2gLSJSw
• Branko Milanovic: Was the 20th Century “Long” or “Short”?
• Invictus: Seattle Minimum Wage Experiment Is Over
• Hoisted from the Archives from 2012: Eric Hobsbawm, RIP: Let me correct the late Tony Judt…. It should read: “Even though he was a lifetime Communist, Eric Hobsbawm was one of the greatest historians of the 20th century.”
• Hoisted from the Archives from 1984: Faith: Pascal’s Wager, When the Odds Are a Thousand to One Against: Eric Hobsbawm says that he would have still been a communist in 1934 even if he had known about Stalin’s slaughter and starvation in the Ukraine because Stalin might have been building a utopia. May I guess that Eric Hobsbawm never read Rosa Luxemburg?
• The “Short” vs. the “Long” Twentieth Century…: Ah. I see that you have found the first draft of my opening lecture for Econ 115 next semester… https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/804205835543019520 https://t.co/lK82RVQudb
• Kindred Winnecoff: World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism

• Brad Plumer: Donald Trump’s Infrastructure Plan Wouldn’t Actually Fix America’s Infrastructure Problems: “Donald Trump loves the idea of infrastructure… wants to make an infrastructure bill a priority in his first 100 days…
• Ann Pettifor: @annpettifor: “Read this for an explanation of George Osborne: https://t.co/UW0Tbo4BX9
• Paul Krugman (2015): Multipliers and Reality: “An exchange between Simon Wren-Lewis and Robert Waldmann… raises some interesting issues.
• PIIE: Conference on Income Inequality and Inclusive Growth
• Should-Read: Aaron Carroll: Will “Repeal and Delay” Be the Next “Doc Fix”?: “I’m seeing a lot of chatter on how one thing Republicans can do in January is ‘Repeal and Delay’…
• Duncan Weldon: Negative Yields, the Euthanasia of the Rentier, and Political Economy: “I understand the mechanics of engine that took us here but not what the driver was thinking…

Interesting Reads:

• Jeffrey J. Schott: TPP Could Go Forward without the United States:
• David Leask: Beyond Brexit: Scottish passport plan could allow Scots to keep working and living in Europe
• Benedict Anderson (1983): Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism http://amzn.to/2fYVq1e
• Ernest Gellner (1983): Nations and Nationalism http://amzn.to/2fYUg62
• Jonathan Woetzel: Closing California’s Housing Gap
• Thomas Piketty: We must rethink globalization, or Trumpism will prevail:
• Barry Eichengeeen: Three ways to make sense of the dollar in uncertain times: Haven status and policies will determine prospects for the economy and currency
• Weekend Reading: Neville Morley: Vicarious Virtue
• Note to Self: Why Donald Trump’s attempt to make trade policy his arena for rescuing America’s white want-to-be-blue-collar workers will fail
• Weekend Reading: Izabella Kaminska: Facebook and the Manufacture of Consent
• Note to Self: Imagined Communities vs. Nations and Nationalism
• Inclusive Growth?: PIIE Conference
• Radical Uncertainty, Political Risk, and Forecasting the Global Economy