Tag: roundup

• Nick Rowe et al.: The Leijonhufvud Tradition
• Tamim Bayoumi and Joseph E. Gagnon: Time to Be Bold, Mr. Kuroda
• Wolfgang Munchau: The Revenge of Globalisation’s Losers
• Martin Ford: How unprepared We Are for the Robot Revolutionm
• Gary B. Gorton: The History and Economics of Safe Assets

Should-reads:

• Mark Thoma: How Slow Economic Growth Could Thwart a Clinton Presidency
• James Galbraith (1997): Time to Ditch the NAIRU
• Noah Smith: Want Economic Growth? Empty the Suburbs
• Patrick Bayer et al.: Speculative Fever: Investor Contagion in the Housing Bubble
• Wonkette: Starbucks Shocks America, Breaks Streak Of Phenomenal Stupidity On Race Issues
• Socialist Workers Party (1974): Party Builder
• Nick Rowe: Fewer Fiscal Multipliers and more Clarity from the Bank of Canada
• Simon Worrall: During Last Mass Migration, Europeans Were the Immigrants

• Duncan Weldon: Fear of the robots is founded in the messy reality of labour
• Michael Heise: The Case Against Helicopter Money
• Suresh Naidu and Noam Yuchtman: Labor Market Institutions in the Gilded Age
• Narayana Kocherlakota: The World Needs More U.S. Government Debt

Should-reads:

• Michel Foucault (1966): The Order of Things
• Narayana Kocherlakota: Obama’s Economic Disappointment
• John Quiggin: A data point on minimum wages
• Tim Duy: Warning: Hawkishness Ahead
• Eduardo Porter: The Mirage of a Return to Manufacturing Greatness

• Branko Milanovic: There is a trade-off between citizenship and migration
• Arindrajit Dube and Ben Zipperer: Puerto Rico’s predicaments: Is its minimum wage the culprit?
• Ben Spielberg: How to Prepare for the Next Recession
• Olivier Blanchard et al. (2010): Rethinking Macro Policy
• Jim Tankersley: The world has too many workers. Here’s one way to fix it
• Ben Thompson (2013): Obsoletive: Revolutionary Products in Tech Don’t Disrupt–They Obsolete

Should-reads:

• Paul Krugman: When Europe Stumbled: “Things really go off track only in 2011-2012… [when] Europe was doing a lot of austerity. But so… was the U.S., between the expiration of stimulus and cutbacks at the state and local level. The big difference was monetary…”
• Jeff Spross: Sorry, Obama: Your economic policies weren’t ‘awesome’
• Karl Polanyi (1985): For a New West: Essays, 1919-1958
• Tim Jost: Medicaid Managed Care Final Rule: Examining The Alignment With Qualified Health Plan Requirements (Updated)

• Ben Thompson: Antitrust and Aggregation
• Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1974): Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

Should-reads:

• Pro Growth Liberal: Could A Higher Minimum Wage Increase Employment?
• Larry Mishel: Tired of economists’ misdirection on globalization
• Randall K. Q. Akee, William E. Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold, and E. Jane Costello: Parents’ Incomes and Children’s Outcomes: A Quasi-Experiment Using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits:
• James Kwak: Cultural Capture in Black and White
• Austin Clemens: Interactive: The changing economics of the American family
• Rachel B. Herrmann: Histories of Food and Hunger
• Paul Krugman: Impurity in the Pursuit of Salvation Is No Vice
• Lucia Mutikani: U.S. economy stalls in first quarter as activity weakens broadly
• Bequests: An Historical Perspective
• Justin Fox: The Big Spenders on R&D

• David Glasner: What’s Wrong with Monetarism?
• Raj Chetty and Nathaniel Hendren: The Impacts of Neighborhoods on Intergenerational Mobility: W@4PM, Wells-Fargo Room: Stream: http://bluejeans.com/617756972
• John Stoehr: Thomas Frank and the Illusion of Presidential Omnipotence
• Omer Moav: Geography, Transparency, and Institutions

Should-reads:

• Noah Smith: Life Update: Leaving Stony Brook, Joining Bloomberg View
• Ben Zipperer: Equitable Growth in Conversation: An interview with David Card and Alan Krueger
• Gavyn Davies: Is there a new Plaza Accord?
• Julia Belluz and Alvin Chang: What research on English dukes can teach us about why the rich live longer
• Susannah Locke: How to debunk false beliefs without having it backfire
• Roman Empire GDP Per Capita Map Shows That Romans Were Poorer Than Any Country in 2015

• Joshua Gans: Ford hedges to deal with disruption
• Benjamin Mitra-Kahn: Keynes passed away 70 years ago today–his copyright follows
• Noah Smith: Policy Recommendations and Wishful Thinking

Should Reads:

• Jason Furman and Douglas Holtz-Eakin: Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay
• Bin Wong: China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience: 9780801483271
• Kenneth Pomeranz: The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World: 9780691090108
• Karl Marx: The Poverty of Philosophy
• Robert Allen, Tommy Bengtsson, Martin Dribe: Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe
• hrister Lundh, Satomi Kurosu: Similarity in Difference: Marriage in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900
• Frank Dobbin: Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age
• Arjun Jayadev: Axel Leijonhufvud: The Road not Taken
• Michael Shea: The Protestant Ethic and the Language of Austerity

• Noah Smith: America Isn’t Going Broke
• Patrick Dunleavy: Choosing Useless Titles

Should-reads:

• Menzie Chinn: Thinking about The Great Leap Forward
• Laura Kusisto: Why the Great Divide Is Growing Between Affordable and Expensive U.S. Cities