Tag: roundup

• Eric Loomis: Jobs for Those Who Lack College Degrees
• Branko Milanovic, Janet Gornick, and Paul Krugman: Talking Global Inequality
• Brad DeLong et al.: Paul Volcker and the Human League: “Monetary Superneutrality”–Claiming That Real Variables Are Invariant to Changes in the Average Inflation Rate–Is No Longer a Thing…:

Should Reads:

• Jeffry Frieden: Lessons for the Euro from Early American Monetary and Financial History
• David Lipton: Can Globalization Still Deliver?
• Brad Setser: Follow the Money » China Is Pivoting Away From Imports, Not Just Rebalancing Away From Exports
• Justin Fox: Urban Living Becomes a Luxury Good
• Zeynep Tufekci: Underrated? No, But…: Promiscuous Link Sluttage for Late May 2016
• Comment of the Day: Lee Arnold: Why is it that Tocqueville, Keynes, and Polanyi are still ‘it’ as far as policy-relevant useful social theory is concerned?

• Atif Mian and Amir Sufi: Who Bears the Cost of Recessions? The Role of House Prices and Household Debt
• Patrick Iber and Mike Konczal: Karl Polanyi for President

Should Reads:

• Patrick Marren: Two Futures Strategy Group Clients – One Lesson
• Jeffrey Frankel: Rediscovering Fiscal Policy at the G7
• Michael A. Cohen, Jamelle Bouie, and Lara Brown: American Maelstrom: May 25, 2016 1:00 pm – 2:45 pm | New America 740 15th St NW #900 Washington, D.C. 20005
• Eric Loomis: Jobs for Those Who Lack College Degrees
• Live from the Great Transformation: Why is it that Tocqueville, Keynes, and Polanyi are still ‘it’ as far as policy-relevant useful social theory is concerned? They all wrote long, long ago now…
• Today’s Economic History: John Maynard Keynes (1931): Unemployment as a World Problem
• Live from Twitter’s Incomprehensible User Interface: Timothy B. Lee: Twitter replies are broken, and Twitter has a great plan to fix them
• Live from Cupertino in 1997: Ben Thompson: The Curse of Culture
• Hoisted from the Archives: Me Reviewing Robert Skidelsky on John Maynard Keynes

• Artir: No Great Technological Stagnation
• Noah Smith: Don’t Give Up on Equality of Opportunity
• Tim Duy: Curious
• Mohamed El-Erian: The Fed, the Markets and Expectation Management
• J. Bradford De Long (19950: America’s Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s
  
• Hoisted from the 1930s: Party Discipline, Comrade!

• Thomas Philippon: Finance vs. Wal-Mart: Why are Financial Services so Expensive?
• Tim Duy: This Is Not a Drill. This Is the Real Thing
• Paul Volcker: Cardiff Garcia’s Long Chat with Paul Volcker
• Brad Setser: The Case for More Public Investment in Germany is Strong
• Eric Loomis: Who Loses in Globalization?
• Miles Kimball: Friends and Sparring Partners: The Skyline from My…
• Jonathan Guthrie: Piketty has last laugh as revolts threaten the pay status quo
• (2015): New Labour’s Economic Illiteracy Exacted a Terrible Price: “I’m afraid there is no money.”
• Izabella Kaminska: Inequality and the monopolies of unfettered techno markets: “Companies cut costs rather than improve process so as to grab market share…”

• Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralf R Meisenzahl: The Protestant Reformation, Economic Institutions, and Development
• Dietrich Vollrath: Can We Get Rich by “Doing Business” Better?
• Justin Wolfers: Brownback’s Kansas Experiment a Failure
• Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen: The Political Legacy of American Slavery
• Comment of the Day: Tacitus “It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured…”
• Weekend Reading: Alexis de Tocqueville: Book II Chapter 20 The Aristocracy of Manufacturers
• Weekend Reading: Paul Krugman (2015): Annoying Euro Apologetics

• Simon Wren-Lewis: Helicopter Money and Fiscal Policy
• Cardiff Garcia: Remembrance of Bloggy Things Past
• Ryan Avent: The Fed Ruins Summer: America’s Central Bank Picks a Poor Time to Get Hawkish
• Mark Thoma sends us to: Paul Krugman**: Obama’s War on Inequality
• Pro-Growth Liberal: EconoSpeak: Eduardo Porter on the Need For Fiscal Stimulus
• Daniel Altman: Economics Has Failed America: “When it comes to the impact of global trade, the dismal science has done a dismal job explaining how to help workers hurt by globalization…”
• Weekend Reading: RIchard Hofstadter (1954): The Pseudo-Conservative Revolt
• Live from the Self-Made Gehenna That Is Twitter: Matt Bruenig is a very smart man…. Not on Twitter, Matt Bruenig is almost always very much worth reading…. On Twitter–that wretched hive of scum and villainy–not so much: Kevin Drum: The Great Matt Bruenig-Neera Tanden Kerfuffle Sort of Explained

• Justin Wolfers: Growth in Real Average Income for the Bottom 90 Percent
• Ben Thompson: China Watching
• Marshall Steinbaum: Uber’s Antitrust Problem
• Miles Corak: Worlds of Inequality
• Sylvia Allegretto: The jobs recovery: Eight years post Great Recession
• Tim Jost: EEOC Rules Allow Significant Rewards, Penalties In Connection With Wellness Program Participation

• James Kwak: The Problem with Obamacare: “Obamacare is a heroic attempt to make the best out of this basic conundrum: we are trying to use markets to distribute something that, at the end of the day, we don’t want distributed according to market forces…”
• Lucy Marcus: What’s Wrong With Executive Compensation?
• Brad Barber and Terrence O’Dean: “Individual investors who hold common stocks directly pay a tremendous performance penalty for active trading… those that trade most earn an annual return of 11.4 percent, while the market returns 17.9 percent…. Trading is hazardous to your wealth…”
• Roland Nikles: Jefferson’s Republican Virtues: Wrong in 1804, Wrong Today: “Brad DeLong has a new book out with Steven Cohen, Concrete Economics: the Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy…”
• Martin Wolf: ‘Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization’, by Branko Milanovic
• Richard Mayhew: The ACA and Medicaid Risk Corridors
• Envy and Spite in the Social Welfare Function: Hoisted from the Archives from a Decade Ago
• Weekend Reading: Olivier Blanchard: Rethinking Macro Policy: Progress or Confusion?
• Live from the Gamma Quadrant: Manu Saadia: Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek