Tag: roundup

• Paul Krugman (2013): Friedman and the Austrians
• Thomas Piketty (2015): Change Europe, Now
• Justin Wolfers: Things That Probably Aren’t True
• Justin Fox: This Job Market Slump Started a While Ago

Should Reads:

• Harold James: The New Backlash Against Globalization
• Paulina Tcherneva: 16 Reasons Matt Yglesias is Wrong about the Job Guarantee vs. Basic Income
• Jeremie Cohen-Setton: “Since 2008 the IMF has been at the forefront of a revaluation of the orthodox policy toolbox. While the majority of policies that constituted the old Washington Consensus remain in place, the consensus has moved on financial openness and fiscal consolidations…”
• Sarah Kliff: Unpaid, stressed, and confused: patients are the health care system’s free labor
• Tim Duy: Employment Report, Yellen, and More
• (Late) Monday DeLong Smackdown: Robert Waldmann on the Dimensions of Inequality That Matter
• Agriculture the Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race?: Today’s Economic History

• Carles Boix and Frances Rosenbluth: Bones of Contention: The Political Economy of Height Inequality
• Jay Shambaugh: Why the United States Needs the World to Grow
• Noah Smith: Finding Better Ideas to Rebuild America

Should Reads:

• Duarte Geraldino: These San Francisco activists say build in my backyard
• Noah Smith Gives a Flattering Review of Steve Cohen’s and My Concrete Economics
• China Needs to Stand Up in More than Economic Growth…
• Eugene Genovese: Slavery and Serfdom Are Good Things! Really!!

• Steve Goldstein: Fed’s Lael Brainard Calls for ‘Waiting’ as Labor Market Has Slowed
• Paul von Ebers: Mega Health Insurance Mergers: Is Bigger Really Better?
• Timothy B. Lee: The Economy Just Got Its Worst Job Report in Years

Should Reads:

• Eric Lonergan: The economics of language: David Hume & valuing Facebook – Philosophy of Money
• Arjun Jayadev: How to relax and start loving the robots
• Equitable Growth’s Jobs Day Graphs: May 2016 Report Edition – Equitable Growth
• Must-Read: Steve Goldstein: Fed’s Lael Brainard Calls for ‘Waiting’ as Labor Market Has Slowed
• Lack of Demand Creates Lack of Supply; Lack of Proper Knowledge of Past Disasters Creates Present and Future Ones
• For the Weekend…: Nigel Tufnel: Spinal Tap: ‘These go to eleven…’
• Live from the Big Muddy: Richard Mayhew: Elections Have Consequences: Louisiana Edition
• Weekend Reading: Eric Alterman: How False Equivalence Is Distorting the 2016 Election Coverage
• Comment of the Day: Kansas Jack: Why is it that Tocqueville, Keynes, and Polanyi are still ‘it’ as far as policy-relevant useful social theory is concerned?
• Weekend Reading: Andrew Batson: What Xi Jinping really said about Deng Xiaoping and Mao Zedong

• Olivier Blanchard: How to Teach Intermediate Macroeconomics after the Crisis?
• Ben Thompson: Building Infrastructure
• Olivier Blanchard: Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?: Fiscal Policy
• John Whitehead: Environmental Economics: The Conservative Bias in Economics?
• Richard Mayhew: Opportunities for System Improvement
• Eric Lonergan: Bernanke’s Four Errors: “I am a huge fan of Ben Bernanke…. Disappointingly, Ben’s latest contribution to the helicopter money debate is uncharacteristically poor. He is wrong on four basic points…”
• Mary Meeker: Internet Trends 2016
• Live from the Republicans Self-Made Gehenna: Paul Krugman (2010): The Flimflam Man
• Live from Over the Sierra Nevada: Intellectual standards, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, standards!: Thomas A. Lubik et al.: Using Inventories to Help Explain Post-1984 Business Cycles
• Eric Loomis on Child Labor: Today’s Economic History

• Gideon Rachman: Xi Jinping Has Changed China’s Winning Formula: “What Mr Xi has done is essentially to abandon the formula that has driven China’s rise…
• Narayana Kocherlakota: There Goes the Fed’s Credibility
• Heather Boushey: Investing in Early Childhood Education Is Good for Children and Good for the Economy
• Fred Clark: That Time I Was the Evil Opposite of Neoliberalism
• Mark Thoma: Yes, Nick Kristof, There Is a Conservative Bias in Economics
  8 Mark Thoma: Tax hikes on the wealthy: Good or bad for growth?
• Brad Setser: What Drove China’s Large Reserve Sales?
• Matthew Yglesias: A universal basic income could absolutely solve poverty
• Nicholas Bagley: Medicaid programs can’t withhold a Hep C cure
• Austin Frakt: For some drugs, perhaps we should pay more
• Eduardo Porter: A Universal Basic Income Is a Poor Tool to Fight Poverty
• Martin Wolf: Central banks as pawnbrokers of last resort: Lord King offers a novel alternative to the alchemy of banking…

• Simon Wren-Lewis: Greece under Troika rule
• John Quiggin: Look what they’ve done to my song, Ma

Should Reads:

• Heather Boushey: Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with Claudia Goldin – Equitable Growth
• Matt O’Brien: The stunning truth that explains the rise of the far-right in Britain and elsewhere: “We’re still living in a Depression—and that’s giving power to far-right leaders throughout the Western world.”
• Live from the Gamma Quadrant: Matthew Yglesias: Star Trek Rankings
• Brian Buetler Was Right!
• Live from the Gamma Quadrant: Manu Saadia: The Big Idea – Whatever
• Manu Saadia’s Trekonomics Is Out!

• Michael Woodford: Quantitative Easing and Financial Stability
• Matt Levine: People Are Worried About Unicorns
• Alan Shipman: Iceland’s Economy Miracle

Should Reads:

• J. Bradford DeLong (January 17, 2014): “Beer Goggles”, Forward Guidance, Quantitative Easing, and the Risks from Expansionary Monetary Policy: Friday Focus
• J. Bradford DeLong (March 22, 2014): Is There Any Sense in Which Quantitative Easing Might Increase Financial Instability?
• J. Bradford DeLong (October 24, 2014): Unclear and Inadequate Thoughts on Financial Stability and Monetary Policy Once Again
• Hoisted from the Archives from Two Years Ago: The Poverty of Right-Wing Piketty Criticism
• Live from Oakland Airport: Proposed unicorn of the day: PRE–but for Starbucks…
• Comment of the Day: Britonimist: Neoliberalism, Mirowski and Wren-Lewis
• Live from the Hart Office Building: Mark Schmitt: Sen. Booker on Sen. Bradley: http://bit.ly/1ONoVOp This post reflects a major part of my life from 1990-96, and the values we took from it…

• Ricardo Hausmann: Overdosing on Heterodoxy Can Kill You
• Stephen G. Cecchetti Kermit L. Schoenholtz: Spillovers, Spillbacks and Policy Coordination
• James Bessen: Lobbyists Are Behind the Rise in Corporate Profits
• Wired: The Economic Lessons of Star Trek’s Money-Free Society
• Pascal Seppecher, Isabelle Salle, and Dany Lang: Is the Market Really a Good Teacher?

Should Reads:

• Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson: How bank networks amplify financial crises: Evidence from the Great Depression | VOX, CEPR’s Policy Portal
• Duncan Weldon: The IMF, the neoliberal agenda and the world we’ve built
• Sandy Jencks: Why the Very Poor Have Become Poorer
• Eric Rauchway: “Maybe I have to tweet this every day”: Eric Rauchway (2010): New Deal Denialism
• Populist Backlash and Political Economy
• Sunday Theology Weblogging…
• Weekend Reading: Prakash Loungani on the Extremely Wise Dani Rodrik: Rebel with a Cause

• Nick Bunker: What’s the deal with U.S. wage growth?
• Laura Tyson and James Manyika: Putting Profits in Perspective
• Branko Milanovic: How Unequal Is India?
• Noah Smith: Finding Better Ideas to Rebuild America

Should Reads:

• Noah Smith: Immigration Isn’t That Bad for Native Workers
• Lawrence H. Summers et al.: Strengthening the Safety Net to Mitigate the Effect of Future Recessions
• Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach: Impoverished children with access to food stamps become healthier and wealthier adults
• Robin Wigglesworth: The Bearable Lightness of Debt – Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Low Interest Rates | FT Alphaville
• Mark Dynarski: On negative effects of vouchers
• Branko Milanovic: Why “Make America Denmark Again” will not happen
• Michael Gorman: Emerging technologies, education, and the income gap
• Weekend Reading: Prakash Loungani on the Extremely Wise Dani Rodrik: Rebel with a Cause
• Live from Over the Canadian Rockies: Jamelle Bouie puts his trust in the wisdom of the American people…
• Helicopter Money!: No Longer So Live at Project Syndicate
• Weekend Reading: Cardiff Garcia: Our Long Chat with Paul Volcker
• Live from the Self-Made Gehenna That Is Twitter: Terry Teachout: Twitter, in Four Sentences

• Kostadis J. Papaioannou: “Hunger Makes a Thief of Any Man”: Poverty and Crime in British Colonial Asia
• Josh Bivens: Larry Summers, the Congressional Progressive Caucus Budget, and the Abandonment of Fiscal Policy
• Pedro Bordalo, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer: Diagnostic Expectations and Credit Cycles
• Eric Loomis: Jobs for Those Who Lack College Degrees

Should Reads:

• Peter Edelman (1997): The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done: A Clinton appointee who resigned in protest over the new welfare law explains why it is so bad and suggests how its worst effects could be mitigated.
• Richard Mayhew: Exchange Strategery thoughts
• Miles Kimball: Against Anticompetitive Regulation
• Noah Smith: John Cochrane’s 101ism, Overtime Pay Edition
• Nick Rowe: Accounting for Central Bank Profits
• Live from the Republicans’ Self-Made Gehenna: David Roberts: Trump promises ‘complete American energy independence — COMPLETE.’
• Today’s Economic History: Leszek Kolakowski vs. The Hacks of the New Left
• Anderson: ThusTweeted: “It looks like you are outraged. Are you SURE this is a hill you want to die on?”