Tag: roundup

Must-reads: February 27, 2016

Posted on February 27, 2016February 27, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Willem Buiter: Citi: Increasing chance that winter is indeed coming
• Philip Delves Broughton: US voters rage against potholed roads and poisoned water
• Andy Harless: “Answering @rortybomb
• Justin Wolfers: On Twitter

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• Mark Thoma sends us to Simon Wren Lewis**: A Letter to Tony Blair
• Pol Antras et al. : The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
• Nicholas Bagley: A massive class action over risk corridors

Must-reads: February 25, 2016

Posted on February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Thomas Piketty: A New Deal for Europe
• David Glasner (2015): Neo-Fisherism and All That
• Tim Duy: Lacker, Kaplan, Fischer

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• Noah Smith: “I spent literally years making fun of righty econ bloggers for saying there are “Keynesians” out there who think multipliers are always big.”
• Ronald Coase (1960): The Problem of Social Cost
• Ronald Coase (1937): The Nature of the Firm
• Miles Corak: Why Canada should foster a ‘second-chance’ society
• Shawn Donnan: IMF calls on G20 to take ‘bold’ action
• Kavya Vaghul: Carbon inequities, climate change, and complementary solutions
• Matt Markezich: What explains the rise in income inequality at the top of the income distribution?
• Marshall Steinbaum and Kavya Vaghul: How the student debt crisis affects African Americans and Latinos
• Larry Summers and Heather Boushey: Equitable Growth in Conversation

Must-reads: February 22, 2016

Posted on February 22, 2016February 22, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Brad Hershbein: A College Degree Is Worth (Disproportionately) Less If You Are Raised Poor
• Nick Bunker: Abundance and the Direction of Technological Growth
• Noah Smith: Your Landlord Is a Drag on Growth
• Stumbling and Mumbling: Ronnie O’Sullivan & the Limits of Incentives

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• LK: Takahashi Korekiyo and Fiscal Stimulus in Japan in the 1930s
• Larry Elliot: Central bankers on the defensive as weird policy becomes even weirder
• The Ghost of Takahashi Haunts Abenomics
• Francesco Saraceno: Draghi Wants the Cake, and Eat It
• Bob Barbera, Jon Faust, and Jonathan Wright: Improving Conventional Unconventional Policy
• Gene Grossman et al. : Schooling and Balanced Growth
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History: The Habakkuk Hypothesis
• Wikipedia: Technological Unemployment
• Brad Stone rt al.: The Most Important Apple Executive You’ve Never Heard Of

Must-reads: February 21, 2016

Posted on February 21, 2016February 21, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Gavyn Davies: Splits in the Keynesian camp: a Galilean Dialogue
• Paul Krugman: What Have We Learned since 2008?
• Paul Krugman: Living with Monetary Impotence

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• Matt Bruenig: The Story of Eric Harwood
• Wolfgang Munchau: Through the past, darkly, for Europe’s central bankers: “Today’s economic situation in Europe has parallels with the 1930s and Hitler’s speedy recovery…”
• Heather: Trump Hits Back at Bush on Eminent Domain: His Family Used It for the Stadium in Texas
• Gavyn Davies: Global Growth Now Fraying at the Edges
• Jane Meyer: Excerpt: ‘Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right’
• Linette Lopez: 13 Awesome Wall Street Movies

Must-reads: February 19, 2016

Posted on February 19, 2016February 19, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Joe Gagnon: The Bank of Japan Is Moving Too Slowly in the Right Direction
• Rob Johnson: The China Delusion

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• Masahiko Shibamotoa and Masato Shizume: How Did Takahashi Korekiyo Rescue Japan from the Great Depression?
• Richard J. Smethurst: From Foot Soldier to Finance Minister
• Myung Soo Cha: Did Takahashi Korekiyo Rescue Japan from the Great Depression?
• Nicola Cetorelli et al.: Are Asset Managers Vulnerable to Fire Sales?
• Mark Thoma: Break up big banks? Why size isn’t the real issue
• Jordan Weissmann: The Sanders Campaign Thinks It Can Give Us 5 Percent Economic Growth. It’s Deluded

Must-reads: February 18, 2016

Posted on February 18, 2016February 18, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Narayana Kocherlakota: What We’ve Learned About Unconventional Monetary Policy
• David Glasner: Competitive Devaluation Plus Monetary Expansion Does Create a Free Lunch
• Dan Davies: Comment on “The Euro Area Crisis Five Years After the Original Sin”
• Tim Duy: FOMC Minutes and More
• Scott Lemieux: Summing Up Scalia

Must-reads: February 16, 2016

Posted on February 16, 2016February 16, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Paul Krugman: Bonds on the Run
• Ada Palmer (2014): Sketches of a History of Skepticism, Part I: Classical Eudaimonia

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• Health Affairs Blog
• Josh Bivens: The Fed shouldn’t accept the “new normal” without a fight
• Julian di Giovanni et al.: International business cycle transmission: Firm-level evidence
• Bob Barbera: Are the Saudis Thinking Clearly? And Should We?

Must-reads: February 15, 2016

Posted on February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Henry Farrell: Facebook’s Algorithms Are Not Your Friend
• Donald Kohn and David Wessel: Eight Ways to Improve the Fed’s Accountability
• John Plender: ‘Lehman Brothers: A Crisis of Value’ by Oonagh McDonald
• Paul Krugman sends us to Gavyn Davies, Lael Briainard from last October, and himself from a year ago
• Barry Eichengreen and Charles Wyplosz: How the Euro Crisis Was Successfully Resolved

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• Richard Mayhew: “The cost curve is bending. If prices can grow at roughly the rate of inflation and not even nominal GDP quite a few long term federal financing problems go from dire to manageable…”

Must-reads: February 14, 2016

Posted on February 14, 2016February 15, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Richard Mayhew: The Sovaldi that Wasn’t
• Dani Rodrik: The Trade Numbers Game
• Richard Mayhew: The Hope of Health Care Cost Stabilization

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• Barry Eichengreen: China’s Exchange-Rate Trap
• David Dayen (2013): How a Frustrated Blogger Made Expanding Social Security a Respectable Idea
• Brad DeLong (2014): Oversharing About Money: An International Financial Wire Transfer from Lafayette, California, USA to Ahero, Nyando District, Nyanza Province, Kenya
• Jack Forster: One Year In: Why A Die-Hard Mechanical Watch Lover Can’t Get The Apple Watch Off His Wrist (And Why That Matters)

Must-reads: February 12, 2016

Posted on February 12, 2016February 12, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Robert Axtell (2005): The Complexity of Exchange
• Tim Duy: Fed Yet to Fully Embrace a New Policy Path
• Ken Rogoff: The Great Escape from China