Tag: roundup

• Nuno Palma: Sailing Away from Malthus: Intercontinental Trade and European Economic Growth, 1500-1800:
• Paul Romer: Professionalism and the Academic Division of Labor
• Matthew Shapiro: How Economic Shocks Affect Spending
• Economist: A Hire Power

Should Reads:

• Larry Levitt et al.: How ACA Marketplace Premiums Measure Up to Expectations
• Economist: Secrets and Agents: George Akerlof’s 1970 paper, “The Market for Lemons”, is a foundation stone of information economics. The first in our series on seminal economic ideas…
• Perry Mehrling: Financialization and its Discontents
• Reading the Economic History Reading List of the Very Sharp “Pseudoerasmus of Chokurdakh”…
• What Was Herbert Hoover’s Fiscal Policy?: Hoisted from Five Years Ago
• “Concrete Economics”, Pragmatism, the Hamilton Tradition, the Evolution of Macroeconomics, and the Post-2008 Nominal Demand Shortfall

• Andy Taylor: Failure To Expand Medicaid Adds To Stresses In Southeast Kansas County
• Nick Rowe: Anti Urban Economics
• David Lipton : The Key to Raising Business Investment: Keep Pushing the Accelerator:

Should Reads:

• Kurt Overmeyer
• David Beckworth: The International Impact of the Fed When the United States is a Banker to the World
• Ann Kim: Would a Public Option Improve Obamacare?
• Nouriel Roubini: Europe’s Brexit Hangover
• Claudia Sahm: Aging and Productivity Growth
• Robin Harding: Japan Launches $45bn Stimulus Package
• Live from the American Press Corps’ Self-Made Gehenna: Steve M.: We’ve Entered the Professional-Centrist Handwringing Phase
• The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: July 27-August 2, 2006
• Dean Acheson, FDR’s Wishes, and the Origins of U.S. Engagement in World War II: Hoisted from the Archives
• James Kwak Thinks About Lessons from Steve Cohen’s and My “Concrete Economics”
• “Concrete Economics”, Pragmatism, the Hamilton Tradition, the Evolution of Macroeconomics, and the Post-2008 Nominal Demand Shortfall
• Live from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Buce: Hot Baths

• Paul Krugman (2013): Helicopters Don’t Help:
• Willem Buiter: EU and China Ought to Use Helicopter Money
• [Nick Bunker: How Many Big Macs will That Minimum Wage Buy?
• Eric Lonergan: Helicopter Money Is Different
• Eric Lonergan: A Brief Reply to Paul Krugman on Policy Equivalence: “Helicopter money is partly useful precisely because it addresses the institutional failure of fiscal policy…”

Should Reads:

• Alan Blinder (2000): Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound: Balancing the Risks
• (2000): Journal of Money, Credit and Banking: Monetary Policy in a Low-Inflation Environment
• Links for the Week of July 31, 2016
• Monday DeLong Self-Smackdown: DeLong (2000) Sees the Trees, But Overlooks the Forest as Far as the Macroeconomic Dangers of Low Inflation Are Concerned…
• America’s Historical Experience with Low Inflation: Hoisted from 1999

• Joel Mokyr (2015): Culture of Growth: Origins of the Modern Economy
• Olivier J. Blanchard and Lawrence H. Summers (1986): Hysteresis and the European Unemployment Problem
• Michael Kalecki (1943): Political Aspects of Full Employment
• Ananya Roy: In Defense of “Poverty”

Should Reads:

• Louis Johnston: The Growth of the Service Sector in Historical Perspective: Explaining Trends in U.S. Sectoral Output and Employment, 1840-1990:
• Rowan Jacobsen: Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here
• Nicholas Lardy: China’s SOE Reform—The Wrong Path
• James Pethokoukis: Pulling up the drawbridge: America and ‘authoritarian populism’

• John Maynard Keynes (1936): The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
• Jacob Vigdor et al.: Report on the Impact of Seattle’s Minimum Wage Ordinance
• Cosma Shalizi (2014): [Review of Oliver Morton (2008): “Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet”][]

Should Reads:

• Tony Yates: The perceived-grievance-wrong-headed sop vortex
• Pseudoerasmus: Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton: A Reductionist Summary
• Weekend Reading: From W. Arthur Lewis (1977): The Evolution of the International Economic Order
• Programming in the 21st Century…
• Liveblogging History: July 28, 1932: The Bonus Army

• John Fernald (2014): Productivity and Potential Output Before, During, and After the Great Recession
• Alisdair McKay and Ricardo Reis: Optimal Automatic Stabilizers
• Giles Wilkes: How I learnt to love the economic blogosphere
• Jeffrey Frankel: Trump Jr.’s Pants-on-Fire Allegation of Manipulated Jobs Numbers

Should Reads:

• Economagic
• Tim Duy: Fed Doves Won’t Be Able to Rule the Roost Forever
• Megan Geuss: Elon Musk and JB Straubel talk batteries at the new Gigafactory
• Brad DeLong: The Economist as…?: The Public Square and Economists
• Must-Read: Leah Schnelbach: Thinking Through Violence in The Just City and The Philosopher Kings
• Is the Semi-Permanent “Gunpowder Empire” Historical Scenario Plausible? Perhaps Not…
• Comment of the Day: Phil Koop: Avik Roy’s Damascene Conversion

• Stephen J. Terry: The Macro Impact of Short-Termism
• Danny Yagan: Is the Great Recession Really Over?
• Josh Hausman: What Was Bad for General Motors Was Bad for America: The Automobile Industry and the 1937/38 Recession:
• Diego Anzoategui et al.: Endogenous Technology Adoption and R&D as Sources of Business Cycle Persistence:

Should Reads:

• Peter Orszag: Saving Money on Cardiac Care
• Ben Schiller: We Need A New Social Contract Between Workers, Companies, And Society
• Mike Konczal and Marshall Steinbaum: Declining Entrepreneurship, Labor Mobility, and Business Dynamism: A Demand-Side Approach
• Ploughing with Twelve Yoke of Oxen? 24 Oxen! In Israel in 1000 BC? Wednesday Economic History
• The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: July 20-July 26, 2006
• Live from the Gamma Quadrant: The Star Trek movie reboot series strips the utopian core
• Live from Translunar Space: Rick Mastracchio: A Real Photo
• Live from the Texas That Never Was: Brian Cronin Comic Book Legends Revealed #329: “E. Nelson Bridwell