Tag: roundup

• Ryan Avent: Expect the Worst
• Paul Krugman: A Question For the Fed
• Nancy LeTourneau: What Happens When One Party Doesn’t Care About Governing?

Should Reads:

• Mark Thoma: Why the Fed Has a Rate-Setting Problem
• Noah Smith: The Myth of Austerity and Growth
  • Brad Plumer (2012): IMF: Austerity is much worse for the economy than we thought
  • Jonathan D. Ostry, Prakash Loungani, and Davide Furceri: Neoliberalism: Oversold?
  • Olivier J. Blanchard and Daniel Leigh: Growth Forecast Errors and Fiscal Multipliers
  • Hwang Bo-Yeon (2010): IMF Admits Mistakes in 1997 Crisis Countermeasures
  • Abdul Abiad, Davide Furceri and Petia Topalova (2015): The Macroeconomic Effects of Public Investment: Evidence from Advanced Economies
  • John Cassidy (2013): The Reinhart and Rogoff Controversy: A Summing Up
  • Miles Kimball and Yichuan Wang (2013): After crunching Reinhart and Rogoff’s data, we’ve concluded that high debt does not slow growth
  • IMF (2012): World Economic Outlook: Coping with High Debt and Sluggish Growth
  • Greg Mankiw: One Economic Sickness, Five Diagnoses
  • Alberto Alesina and Silvia Ardagna (2010): Large Changes in Fiscal Policy: Taxes versus Spending Chapter Authors
  • Olivier Blanchard and Roberto Perotti (2002): An Empirical Characterization of the Dynamic Effects of Changes in Government Spending and Taxes on Output
• Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney (2011): A Dozen Economic Facts About Innovation
• Ben Adler (2014): Newt Gingrich & Herman Cain Are Now Making Money Off Spam
• Joshua Knobe: Philosophy, Psychology, and Smarts: “This cultural difference results in a quite radical difference in the atmosphere that one finds in graduate education. Philosophy students experience constant anxiety about whether they are smart enough. Psychology students also experience a lot of anxiety, but it is about a completely different topic. They have this ever-present sense that they absolutely must find some way to make a concrete contribution to the field…”
• Daniel Davies: Brexit supporters say they’re worried about immigration. The real problems are deeper
• (Late) Monday Smackdown: Jonathan Chait Takes Care of Jonathan Rauch

• Paul F Taylor: Teaching Economics
• Richard Scheffler and Sherry Glied: States Can Contain Health Care Costs. Here’s How

Should Reads:

• Paul Krugman: A Tale of Two Parties
• John Maynard Keynes (1927): One of Wells’s Worlds
• Marx’s Half-Baked Crisis Theory and His Theories of Surplus Value, Chapter 17: Hoisted from the Archives from Five Years Ago
• Monday Smackdown: Todd van der Werff Gets Game of Thrones Wrong…
• Live from Republican Economists’ Self-Made Gehenna: I find myself annoyed with Michael Boskin this morning…

• Duncan Black: Sometimes We Get Results
• David Glasner: What’s Wrong with Econ 101?
• Matthew Yglesias: Financial markets are begging the US, Europe, and Japan to run bigger deficits

Should Reads:

• Martin Wolf: Brexiters’ idea of unilateral free trade is a dangerous fantasy: The EU’s regulatory harmonisation is not a perfidious plot against consumers
• Live from Bodega Bay: Let me, for one, welcome our avian masters
• Weekend Reading: Manu Saadia: Introduction: Trekonomics
• Live from Dan Drezner’s Intellectual Nadir: Dan Drezner: A year ago, I wrote the dumbest column I will ever write. You won’t believe what happened next
• Live from Cyberspace: Storify: ObamaCare and Employer-Sponsored Insurance
• Barack Herbert Hoover Grover Cleveland Obama?: Hoisted from 6.5 Years Ago

• FOMC: Press Release–June 15, 2016
• Gauti B. Eggertsson, Neil R. Mehrotra, Sanjay R. Singh, and Lawrence H. Summers: A Contagious Malady? Open Economy Dimensions of Secular Stagnation
• Y. Berman, O. Peters and A. Adamou: Far from Equilibrium: Wealth Reallocation in the United States
• Tierney Sneed: Inside Louisiana’s Blockbuster Medicaid Expansion Roll Out

Should Reads:

• Paul Krugman: Bondage Fantasies at the WSJ: “Back in early 2009… rising rates, the paper declared, were a sign that all-wise markets feared budget deficits and inflation… government was the problem. Seven years on… [has] the Journal has apologized for getting it all wrong?… Hahahahaha. Instead… low rates are not a sign that governments should build infrastructure, or that inflation is too low. They ‘reflect a lack of confidence in options for private investment.’ So rising rates show that government is the problem, and falling rates also show that government is the problem.”
• John Holbo: Walton’s Republic
• Cardiff Garcia: Reminder: Macro Live, Janet Yellen presser edition, starting at 1:50pm EST: “Matt Klein and I will be joined by Alex Scaggs…. For some light pre-statement reading, we recommend: Recession Watch and the Global Reach of Fed Policy, by David Beckworth; Five Questions for Janet Yellen, by Tim Duy; QE, Basel III and the Fed’s New Target Rate, by Zoltan Poszar; The Fed is making the same mistakes over and over again, by Larry Summers”
• Matt Klein: Markets keep fighting the Fed, will the Fed keep letting them win?: “In the past, the Fed has reacted to diminished expectations for the longer-term level of short-term interest rates by adjusting its own forecast. We’ll be sure to check if the pattern continues today.”

• Bill Emmott: Let’s Get Fiscal
• Larry Summers: Fed’s Current Strategy Ill Adapted to the Realities
• Simon Wren-Lewis: Brexit and Democracy

Should Reads:

• David Beckworth: Recession Watch and the Global Reach of Fed Policy: “Fed policy… has been putting a choke hold on the global economy… talking up interest rate hikes put a stranglehold on the dollar-bloc countries…”
• Martin Sandbu: Beyond Fossil Fuels
• David Lipton: Can Globalization Still Deliver?
• Duncan Weldon: Globalisation Is Fraying. Look Under the Elephant Trunk
• Live from Espresso Roma: Needed: a vox.com explainer for zero- and low-calorie sweeteners: pink, blue, yellow, stevia, agave, etc…

• Storify: Duncan Weldon on Globalization and Redistribution (with image, tweets) · delong · Storify
• Barry Ritholtz: How High Are Real House Prices?
• Dani Rodrik: Brexit and the Globalization Trilemma
• Judith Shulevitz: How to Fix Feminism

Should Reads:

• Andrea Boltho, Wendy Carlin, and Pasquale Scaramozzino: Why East Germany did not become the next Mezzogiorno
• Paul McCulley: Our nation can’t afford past-its-sell-date economic orthodoxy
• Live from Cyberspace: Zeynep Tufekci: The Disruption Is Digital
• Storify: Europe:: ” Too Little Democracy, or the Wrong Kind of Democracy? (with images, tweets) · delong · Storify: Dani Rodrik, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Me, and Others…

• Dani Rodrik: Innovation Is Not Enough
• Ben Eisen: Newest Inflation Expectations Likely to Trouble the Fed
• Marco Arment: Avoiding BlackBerry’s Fate

Should Reads:

• Roger Farmer (2014): My Quiz for Wannabe Keynesians
• Aviva Shen: Paul Ryan Is Pretty Sure Welfare Recipients Are Not Working Hard Enough
• Nick Rowe: The Law of Reflux vs Helicopter Money
• Lizzy O’Leary: Narayana Kocherlakota explains why the Fed matters to you
• Kathleen Pender: Bay Area apartment owners lose pricing power
• Max Chafkin and Ian King: How Intel Makes a Chip: The development of a microprocessor is one of the riskiest, costliest, and most technically complex feats in business.
• Aaron Carroll: The U.S. Is Failing in Infant Mortality, Starting at One Month Old
• Paul Krugman (2014): Why the One Percent Hates Obama
• Erik Loomis: Why Taming the Exploitation in Supply Chains is Entirely Possible
• Varieties of Macroeconomics: A Conversation with Noah Smith and Others
• Weekend Reading: Tim Duy: Five Questions for Janet Yellen
• Macroeconomics, Fantasy, Reality, and Intellectual Utility…
• Weekend Reading: Ezra Klein: This Is How the GOP Got Trump
• Weekend Reading: Paul Krugman BI DE Interview

• Paul Krugman: Germany Austerity Policy
• Nell Abernathy, Mike Konczal, and Kathryn Milani: How to Check Corporate, Financial, and Monopoly Power
• Ezra Klein: Technology Is Changing How We Live
• Nicholas Warino: The Bay Area Housing Crisis Is Caused by and Can Be Solved by Local Government

Should Reads:

• Noah Smith: “The American South is not really a land of opportunity…

• Edward Luce: The Mystery of Weak US Productivity
• Noah Smith: Republic of Science or Empire of Ideology?