Tag: roundup

• Antonio Fatás and Lawrence H. Summers: The Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations
• Christopher L. Foote, Lara Loewenstein, and Paul S. Willen: Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt during the Housing Boom: Evidence and Implications
• Judd Cramer and Alan B. Krueger: Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber

• Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, and Emil Verner: Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide
• Quentin Skinner: Liberty before Liberalism and All That: “The Digest of Roman Law[‘s]… fundamental distinction drawn at [its] outset…
• Elizabeth A. Stanton: Negishi Welfare Weights: The Mathematics of Global Inequality
• Sarah Bloom Raskin (2013): Aspects of Inequality in the Recent Business Cycle
• Richard Mayhew: Medicare Reimbursement, Public Options and Medicare Buy-In
• Robert Skidelsky et al.: Too Much Maths, Too Little History: The Problem of Economics

Should Reads:

• Frank Cottrell Boyce: What’s the point of culture in Brexit Britain?
• Weekend Reading: 1978 Letter from Douglas Fraser Resigning from the Labor-Management Group
• Live from the Mission: is Pokémon Go a shared consensual reality game?
• Weekend Reading: Warren Buffett and Michael Jensen: the 1984 Columbia University Orangutang Debate
• For the Weekend…

• Barry Ritholtz: Ha-Joon Chang: Economics Is For Everyone!
• Szolt Darvas: Brexit Vote Boosts Case for Inclusive Growth
• Aaron Carroll: So What Did the Medicaid Expansion Actually Do?
• Izabella Kaminska: Why the World Needs Investment

Should Reads:

• Frederick Solt: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database
• Nick Estes: Idling Economic Engine Can Rev Up Again
• Dirk Krueger (2007): Cross Sectional Facts for Macroeconomists
• OECD (2012): Income Inequality and Growth: The Role of Taxes and Transfers
• The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: July 1-July 15, 2006
• Tim Scott of South Carolina on Life in America Today

• Larry Summers: When the best umps blow a call
• Mark Yzaguirre: Texas Has Prospered In Spite of Social Conservatism, Not Because of It
• Josh Brown: “Technology is 20% of the S&P 500…

Should Reads:

• Eric S. Howard (2008): A Joint Pursuit: The Unique Epistemic Project of Friedrich Hayek and Michael Polanyi
• Michael Polanyi (1968): The Determinants of Social Action
• (Late) Monday Smackdown: No, Peter Thiel, American Politics Was Not on the Right Track Before the Granting of the Vote to Women and “Welfare Beneficiaries”
• Comment of the Day: The estimable RJW has not been looking at our traffic numbers as much as we have. Tweetstorms appear to get much higher readership levels than do blog posts… Robert Waldmann: Oh Noes!

• Jack Ayer: Khlopotat’
• Tony Barber: A Renewed Nationalism Is Stalking Europe
• Sheryl Sandberg (2011): Barnard College Commencement
• Nick Rowe: Adding More Periods to Diamond-Dybvig: Fear of Illiquidity, Not Insolvency

Should Reads:

• Gene Sperling: Modernizing Unemployment Insurance As Part Of The New Social Compact
• Richard Baldwin: The economics of Brexit: Pre-referendum videos and columns on VoxEU.org
• Matthew Parris: For the first time in my life, I feel ashamed to be British: I’ve seen a nasty side to our national character, and seen colleagues and friends pander to it in a way I never thought they would…
• Barack Obama: United States Health Care Reform:  Progress to Date and Next Steps
• Democracy: Unfinished Business
• SocArXiv
• Jason Furman: The Economic Case for Strengthening Unemployment Insurance
• John Maynard Keynes (1933): Trotsky On England
• George Osborne (2010): A New Economic Model
• Gavyn Davies: The German Balance of Payments Quandary
• Comment of the Day: Robert Waldmann: Monday Smackdown: Paul Krugman Tut-Tuts at David Frum for the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
• Brexit: I Think Paul Krugman Is Confused Here…

• Dean Baker: George Will and the Fed: Do Low Interest Rates Redistribute Upward?

• Paul Krugman: Cheap Money Talks

• Storify: Oh Noes! Paul Krugman Has Caught the Tweetstorm Disease!: Paul Krugman Is, I Think, Highly Likely to Be Correct on the Policy Irrelevance of the Risk Premium. The Mystery Is Why the Very Sharp Ken Rogoff Takes a Different View…

Should Reads:

• Richard Mayhew: Risk adjustment and degree of difficulty
• Izabella Kaminska: Even lower rates? “Thanks but no thanks” say banks everywhere
• FT Alphaville: There’s a good reason to be a Long Room member…
• A Plea for Some Sympathy for Repentant Left Neoliberals…
• The Infosphere: Something’s Gotta Give…

• Dani Rodrik: The Abdication of the Left
• Sandra E. Black et al.: The long-term decline in US prime-age male labour force participation and policies to address it
• Robert Kaiser: The Disaster of Richard Nixon
• Paul Krugman: The Great Capitulation
• Barry Eichengreen: Inequality

Should Reads:

• Center for Engaged Scholarship
• Susan Dynarski: America Can Fix Its Student Loan Crisis. Just Ask Australia
• Monday Smackdown: Paul Krugman Tut-Tuts at David Frum for the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
• Comment of the Day/Monday Ken Rogoff Smackdown: Robert Waldmann: Trying to Understand
• Links for the Week of July 10, 2016

• Storify: The Puzzling Aversion to Expansionary Fiscal Policy
• Jason Furman: Is This Time Different? The Opportunities and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
• Antonio Fatás and Lawrence H. Summers: The Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations
• Jonathan Chait: Why ‘Fix the Debt’ Just Can’t Quit Paul Ryan
• Ken Rogoff (2015): Debt Supercycle, Not Secular Stagnation

Should Reads:

• Caroline Freund: @B_Eichengreen puts social policies (not tech/trade) at the center of rising Anglo inequality at BIS conf
• Barry Eichengreen: Inequality
• J. Bradford DeLong (2015): The Scary Debate Over Secular Stagnation Hiccup… or Endgame?
• John Geanakoplos (2013): Leverage, default, and forgiveness: lessons from the American and European crises
  
• Pseudoerasmus: McCloskey: Cotton wasn’t crucial to the British industrial revolution | Was slavery necessary to western industrialisation?
• Storify: Gunpowder Empires’ Military Capacity and Ian Morris
• Weekend Reading: Tim Dunlop: Journalism, Power and Taking Sides
• Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz: The Race Between Education and Technology: The Economic History Research Frontier: A Great Recent Books Approach
• Weekend Reading: William Jenning’s Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” Speech
• Richard von Glahn: The Economic History of China: From Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century: The Economic History Research Frontier: A Great Recent Books Approach

• Kevin Drum: NAFTA and China Aren’t Responsible for Our Steel Woes
• Narayana Kocherlakota: Three Antidotes to the Brexit Crisis
• John Holbo: Podcasts I just listened to

Should Reads:

• Perry Mehrling: Channeling Charles Kindleberger on Brexit
• David Glasner: How Martin Feldstein Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Inflation
• Jared Bernstein: Bond yields are just so damn low…what is that telling us?
• Peter Walker: David Card: The Challenger
• Elliott Anne Rigsby: Understanding Exclusionary Zoning and Its Impact on Concentrated Poverty
• Live from the Time Machine: Duncan Black: The Hippies Could Have Told Them That At The Time

• John Authers : On Twitter
• Jamie Chisholm: Treasury Yields Hit Record Lows
• Kieran Healy: The Moral Economy of Technology
• Anat R. Admati, Peter M. DeMarzo, Martin F. Hellwig, and Paul Pfleiderer (2013): Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Socially Expensive
• Dan Drezner: The Truth of Cosmopolitanism

Should Reads:

• Louis Johnston: Intellectual Boxing Matches
• Jim Tankersley: The interesting thing that happened when Kansas cut taxes and California hiked them
• Live from the Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy That Is the Twitterverse: I confess that I am on the edge as to whether Twitter should live or die, because of things like this. NSFW. NSFP