Tag: roundup

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Eduardo Porter: The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor
• Mark Thoma: Are Economists Driven by Ideology or Evidence?
• Dean Baker, Andrew Glyn, David Howell, and John Schmitt (2004): Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions: The Failure of the Empirical Case for Deregulation
• Menzie Chinn: The Opening of the American Macroeconomy and the Implications for Monetary Policy
• Robinson Meyer: The Decay of Twitter
• Ezra Klein: Were the Questions at CNBC’s Debate Really so Hostile?
• Interview with Emanuel Derman
• Angus Deaton: Statistical objectivity is a cloak spun from political yarn
• Martin Wolf: America’s Labour Market Is Not Working

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Ben Thompson: “Hiroshi Lockheimer, the SVP of Android, Chrome OS, and Chromecast posted on the Chrome blog that ‘Chrome OS is here to stay’ but that Google is ‘working on ways to bring together the best of both operating systems.’ I think my suspicions yesterday were correct: Google is probably trying to unify the two at a foundational level while retaining different UIs, and I think that makes a lot of sense (but we’ll see!)…”
• Alex Mayyasi: The Invention of Pad Thai
• Byron York: “@EWErickson: ‘Carson’s actual expenditure list reads like a wealthy Republican getting played by consultants…'”
• Wikipedia: Hogan’s Heroes

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Brad DeLong: On the Proper Size of the Public Sector, and the Proper Level of Public Debt, in the Twenty-First Century: The Honest Broker for the Week of October 26, 2015
• Paul Krugman: Flexible Illusions
• Paul Krugman: I do not think that word…
• Zarek C. Brot-Goldberg et al.: What Does a Deductible Do?: The Impact of Cost-Sharing on Health Care Prices, Quantities, and Spending Dynamics
• Olivier Blanchard et al., eds.: Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy
• Mark Thoma: Defending The Bush Deficits
• Ken Rogoff: The Fed’s Communication Breakdown by Kenneth Rogoff
• Aaron Carroll: Death panels die, not with a bang, but with a whimper | The Incidental Economist
• Roger Farmer: Secular Stagnation: A Neo-Paleo-Keynesian Perspective

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Byron York: Harwood’s assertion–that the Tax Foundation estimates that Rubio’s tax plan would “give nearly twice as much of a gain in after-tax income to the top 1 percent as to the people in the middle of the income scale”–was correct…. The only thing to quibble with is Harwood’s assertion that 27.9 percent is ‘nearly twice’ 15.8 percent…”
• Robert Farley: “No one thinks attacking Mrs. Clinton from the left is likely to turn the most liberal Democrats into Republican voters. But Steven Law, president of American Crossroads, said the goal was simply to erode what should be her natural core of support. ‘It can diminish enthusiasm for Hillary among the base… lukewarm support can translate into lackluster fund-raising and perhaps diminished turnout…’”
• Aaron Carroll: “I… find it hard to ignore the… randomized controlled trials…. The Polyp Prevention Trial failed to show any effect of a low-fat, high-fiber, fruit-and-vegetable diet on tumor recurrence even after eight years of follow-up tests. The Women’s Health Initiative… 50,000 women… could not show that a change in diet reduced the risk of colorectal cancer…. The W.H.O.’s announcement makes trials like these much less likely to occur in the future, even though they haven’t shown meat to be harmful. After all, if the W.H.O. has declared that processed meat causes cancer, how can we ethically randomize people to eat it?…”
• Scott Lemieux: The Waaaaambulance Manifesto: Only Republicans possess the firm leadership to complain about being asked mildly challenging debate questions
• Matthew Yglesias: Star Trek movies and TV series: Which are the best? Why? | Star Trek rankings: movies, TV series, villains, and crew members from best to worst

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Paul Krugman (October 30, 2015): An Unteachable Moment
• Paul Krugman (October 20, 2015): Rethinking Japan
• Paul Krugman (October 20, 2015): Rethinking Japan
• Paul Krugman (March 20, 2014): The Timidity Trap
• Brad DeLong (2013): Correct Predictions and the Status of Economists
• Thomas Piketty vs. N. Gregory Mankiw (February 15, 2015): I Must Say, I Cannot Think of an Economic Argument That I Score as More One-Sided than This One…
• Wolfgang Münchau: Enlargement and the Euro Are Two Big Mistakes that Ruined Europe
• Adair Turner: Between Debt and the Devil: Money, Credit, and Fixing Global Finance eBook: : Kindle Store

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Josh Barro (2012): Who Needs Posner When You Have Mises and Hayek?
• Paul Krugman: “Paul Singer–a huge contributor to Republican causes–has thrown his support behind Rubio…. He’s an inflation truther–with an unusual twist…. He knows, just knows, that inflation is running away because of what it’s doing to the prices of the things he cares about: ‘Check out London, Manhattan, Aspen and East Hampton real estate prices, as well as high-end art prices, to see what the leading edge of hyperinflation could look like.’ But remember, Rubio is a regular guy in touch with the concerns of ordinary Americans.”
• Mark Thoma: The GOP Circus: Truth-Defying Feats
• Christopher S. Kovacs: Fallen Books and Other Subtle Clues in Zelazny’s “A Night in the Lonesome October”
• Charlie Jane Anders: All the Birds in the Sky

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Marissa Raymond-Flesch et al.: Lessons from the Medi-Cal Expansion Frontlines
• Antonio Fatas: The Missing Lowflation Revolution
• Thomas Laubach and John C. Williams: Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest Redux
• Marshall Steinbaum: The Unseen Threat of Capital Mobility
• Martin Sandbu: Review of “Economics Rules: Why Economics Works, When It Fails, and How to Tell the Difference”, by Dani Rodrik

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Brian Buetler: The GOP’s Grotesque Festival of Lies

• Fold: Remixing Research: How to translate research into multimedia stories
• Herbert Hovenkamp
• Bonus Extra Monday Smackdown: Doesn’t Anybody at the New York Times or in the Jeb Bush Campaign Know What Pickett’s Charge Was?
• Kevin Drum: Head Witch Hunter Charles Krauthammer Now Wants Fewer Witch Hunts

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Tim Duy: December Still Very Much a Live [FOMC] Meeting
• Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi: The Financial Crisis: Lessons for the Next One
• Lawrence Katz and Alan Krueger (1999): The High-Pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s
• Martin Feldstein: Chile’s Uncertain Future
• Dean Baker: Growth Falls Off Sharply in Third Quarter
• Simon Johnson: Resurrecting Glass-Steagall

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Ben Thompson: “Five years… [ago] there were legitimate strategic questions about the iPhone…. I could… respect that the thinking… grounded in a cogent analytical framework (that just happened to be wrong)…. I have a much more difficult time being respectful about today’s bear arguments…. If you want to argue that the iPhone will be less successful than it has been previously, ground it in something other than your vague intuition!”
• • Ben Thompson: Stop Doubting the iPhone, The Macintosh Company
• David Graeber Smackdown Watch: The Gedrosian Desert of Essentialist Anti-Europeanism Edition

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Arthur Delaney: Paul Ryan Mad About Budget Bill His Staff Helped Write
• Lawrence Summers: Global Economy: The Case for Expansion
• Niccolo Machiavelli: On Princes and Optionality
• James J. Heckman: Quality Early Childhood Education: Enduring Benefits
• Eduardo Porter: The Republican Party’s Strategy to Ignore Poverty
• Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill: Contraception and the American Dream

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Corey Robin: John Kasich, Meet Ronald Reagan

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Must- and Should-Reads:

• Tim Harford: The Real Benefits of migration
• Kathleen Maclay: Climate Change Will Reshape Global Economy
• Tim Duy: There Are Going to Be Some Major Debates Inside the Fed This Week
• Dylan Matthews: Study: Food stamps do much more to fight poverty than we thought
• Henry Aaron: Can Taxing the Rich Reduce Inequality? You Bet It Can!
• Jong-Wha Lee: Containing China’s Slowdown

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Dean Baquet: “Some version of it [what we printed] happened…”
• Vinu Julius: I spent 11 years in prison. Here’s what I wish I’d known before I got out

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Robert Solow** (1985): Economic History and Economics
• Kevin Drum: Red States Spent $2 Billion in 2015 to S—- the Poor
• Martin Wolf: Lunch with the FT: Ben Bernanke
• Tierney Sneed: Cosmic Irony: States That Didn’t Expand Medicaid Paying More
• Charles Bean: Causes and Consequences of Persistently Low Interest Rates
• Kevin Drum: The Great 1998 [Global Warming Denier] Chart Swindle Is Now Officially Over
• Nick Buffie and Dean Baker: Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the Story?

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Matt O’Brien: Europe Just Made It Harder for the Fed to Raise Rates
• Katie Martin: Dovish Mario Draghi sends bond yields to new lows
• Jeff Spross: Will Americans Ever Embrace the 30-Hour Workweek?
• Uwe Reinhardt (2013): Health Care Deserves More Respect
• Uwe Reinhardt (2010): Is Health Care Special? | Health Care, Uncertainty and Morality | Is ‘More Efficient’ Always Better? | When Value Judgments Masquerade as Science
• Nick Bunker: How tax expenditures distort our understanding of the U.S. tax code
• James Surowiecki: The Rise and Fall of For-Profit Colleges

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Declan Trott