Tag: roundup

Must-reads: January 25, 2016

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

• Diane Coyle (2013): Learning Economic Lessons from Asia
• Cardiff Garcia: China and Traditional Industrialisation-Led Development: The World Was Not Enough
• Olivier Blanchard, Eugenio Cerutti, and Lawrence Summers: Inflation and Activity–Two Explorations and their Monetary Policy Implications

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• Michael Pettis: The four stages of Chinese growth
• Michael Pettis: China is like Japan and not in a good way
• H.G. Wells : On Becoming a Socialist
• Noah Smith: “These are survey papers, showing very small effect [of immigration on wages] is a robust finding. It’s not just ‘Card vs. Borjas’.”
• Mike Konczal: Why I (Still) Think Shadow Banking is Key to Financial Reform
• Paul Krugman: Wonks and Minions

Must-reads: January 22, 2016

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

• Dietz Vollrath: Beating a Dead Robotic Horse
• Andrew Gelman: Middle-Aged White Death Trends: All About Women in the South
• Duncan Black: Time To Increase Interest Rates!
• Simon Wren-Lewis: The Dead Hand of Austerity; Left and Right

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• Lawrence Summers: Global Economy Can’t Withstand Four 2016 Fed Hikes
• Martin Wolf: Carney’s monetary inactivity is right response: “Britain’s economy is far more open to the world economy than the US and is therefore more exposed”
• James Montier: Market Macro Myths: Debts, Deficits, and Delusions

Must-reads: January 21, 2016

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

• Nick Rowe: Neo-Fisherian Equilibrium with Upper and Lower bounds
• Barry Eichengreen: Reforming or Deforming the Fed?
• Dani Rodrik: The Return of Public Investment

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• Dan Savage: When It Comes to Housing, San Francisco Is Doing It Wrong, Seattle Is Doing It Right
• Nick Bunker: The Federal Reserve and Awareness of Racial Inequality
• Scott Sumner: “I’m well aware that asset prices bounce around…. What scares me is… 1.3% expected PCE inflation 5-10 years… pric[es] in the fact that the Fed will probably respond…”

Must-reads: January 18, 2016

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

• Roger Farmer: Please: Lets Agree to Speak the Same Language
• Olivier Blanchard: The Price of Oil, China, and Stock Market Herding
• Gavyn Davies: China devaluation – a necessary evil?
• McKay Coppins: The Gospel According to Trump

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• Narayana Kocherlakota: “The Federal Reserve Act’s vision of economic diversity is largely regional and sectoral…. As we all know all too well, race matters…. The [Federal Open Market] Committee’s deliberations would be even stronger if they took more account than they did in 2010 of this essential source of heterogeneity in our nation’s economic life.”
• Atila Abdulkadiroglu et al.: The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) [is] a prominent school voucher plan…. LSP participation substantially reduces academic achievement.”
• Wikipedia: Risk Parity
• Andrew Levin: Recent Economic Data and the Risk of a Recession
• Paul Krugman: Health Reform Is Hard
• Harold Pollack: The NFL’s Donté Stallworth on what it’s like to manage millions as an athlete
• Austin Frakt: Even Talking About Reducing Drug Prices Can Reduce Drug Prices
• Barry Eichengreen, Romain Lafarguette, and Arnaud Mehl: Cables, Sharks and Servers: Technology and the Geography of the Foreign Exchange Market

Must-reads: January 15, 2016

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

• Barry Eichengreen: Reforming or Deforming the Fed?
• Paul Krugman: Strangely Self-Confident Permahawks
• Janet Currie: The Great Recession and the Health of Mothers
• Łukasz Rachel and Thomas D. Smith: Towards a Global Narrative on Long-Term Real Interest Rates
• Narayana Kocherlakota: Information in Inflation Breakevens about Fed Credibility

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• David Beckworth: A Small Step Toward Better Fed Policy
• Libby Nelson: What the US could learn from Singapore about making teachers better

Must-reads: January 14, 2016

Posted on January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Dani Rodrik: The Evolution of Work
• Tim Worstall: The Average American Today Is 90 Times Richer Than The Average Historical Human Being
• Joe Stiglitz: Why the Great Malaise of the World Economy Continues in 2016
• Izabella Kaminska: Bob Gordon’s Not Getting in Your Driverless Car

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• Dan Wang**: Why Should Dole Own Container Ships?

Must-reads: January 13, 2016

Posted on January 13, 2016January 14, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Barry Eichengreen: Reforming or Deforming the Fed?
• Paul Krugman: Bully for Neurotoxins
• Chris Dillow: Innovation and Well-Being

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• Matt Zwolinsky: Symposium on Jacob Levy’s Rationalism, Pluralism and Freedom
• Brad DeLong (1996): The Case for Mexico’s Rescue: The Peso Package Looks Even Better Now
• Brad DeLong (2006): Aftathoughts on NAFTA
• Brad DeLong and Larry Summers (2012): Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy
• Brad DeLong (2015): The Scary Debate Over Secular Stagnation
• Brad DeLong (2015): The Melting Away of North Atlantic Social Democracy
• J. Bradford DeLong, Andrei Shleifer, Lawrence H. Summers, and Robert J. Waldmann (1990): Noise Trader Risk in Financial Markets
• Mark Thoma: Three Ways to Help the Working Class
• Jeremy Cohen-Setton: The use of models by policymakers
• John Williams: After the First Rate Hike

Must-reads: January 12, 2016

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

• Simon Wren-Lewis: Confidence as a Political Device
• Adam Ozimek: Can Economics Change Your Mind?
• Wolfgang Münchau: Free Capital Flows Can Put Economies in a Bind
• Adair Turner: Facing Up to Climate Reality
• Dani Rodrik: From Welfare State to Innovation State
• Robert Greenstein: Jeb Bush, Please Talk to Bob Dole About Food Stamps

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• Michael Batnick: 40 Books Svery Self-Respecting Investor Needs to Read
• Mark Thoma: Escaping the Slow-Growth Doldrums

Must-Reads: January 11, 2016

Posted on January 11, 2016January 12, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Larry Summers: Heed the Fears of the Financial Markets
• Antonio Fatas: BIS Redefines Inflation (Again)
• Jared Bernstein: 2015 Was Solid Year for Job Growth: “Payrolls were up 292,000 in December and the unemployment rate held steady at a low rate of 5%…”
• Paul Krugman: Summarizing the Trialogue

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• Nick Bunker: Thinking about Wealth Taxes
• Zmarak Shalizi and J. Vernon Henderson (2000): Geography and Development
• Dean Baker: The Big Short: A Tale of Fools and Crooks
• Tren Griffin: Charlie Munger
• Tobias Adrian, Richard Crump, Benjamin Mills, and Emanuel Moench: Treasury Term Premia: 1961-Present
• Dan Wang: Flexport
• ChronoZoom
• GiveWell
• George Akerlof, William Dickens, and George Perry (1996): The Macroeconomics of Low Inflation
• Michael Tomasky: Democracy Journal: Winter 2016 Issue: “New year, new issue and, most important, new website…”
• Andrew Berg, Andrea F Presbitero, and Luis-Felipe Zanna: Public Investment: Efficiency and Growth

Must-reads: January 7, 2016

Posted on January 7, 2016January 7, 2016 by Brad DeLong

• Max Ehrenfreund and Carolyn Y. Johnson: One of the Biggest Fears about Obamacare Never Happened
• Tod Kelly: Broken Elephants, Part I: Donald Trump and the Triumph of the Conservative Media Machine
• Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock, and Mark W. Watson (1997): The NAIRU, Unemployment and Monetary Policy
• Paul Krugman (2014): Why Weren’t Alarm Bells Ringing?
• Lorcan Roche Kelly: Today: “Chinese stocks close just 29 minutes after open…

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• Brad DeLong (2015): Discussion of Matthew Rognlie: “Deciphering the Fall and Rise in the Net Capital Share”