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Must- and Should-Reads:

• Charles Bean: Causes and Consequences of Persistently Low Interest Rates
• Noah Smith Eats Greg Mankiw’s Just Desserts | Noah Smith: I get what you get in ten years, in two days
• Charles Bean et al.: Low for Long?: Causes and Consequences of Persistently Low Interest Rates
• Michael Hiltzik: Maybe there won’t be an interest rate hike this year after all
• Matt Phillips: Bernanke: I’m not really a Republican anymore
• Paul Krugman: Keynes Comes to Canada
• Orazio Attanasio: Angus Deaton, Nobel Laureate
• Paul Krugman: Scam They Am
• Matthew Yglesias: What the right doesn’t get about Piketty

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Jeb Lund: Republicans’ 11-Hour Gift to Hillary Clinton: “The Republicans wanted Hillary Clinton’s head mounted on a wall, and they’ll get it. At this rate… it will… come in the form of her official presidential photo…”
• Dan Vergano: This Man Failed a Paternity Test Due to His Vanished Twin’s DNA
• Nancy LeTourneau: The Real Effect of Citizens United on the GOP

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Michael Clemens: The South Pacific Secret to Breaking the Poverty Cycle
• Martin Wolf: Lunch with the FT: Ben Bernanke
• Adair Turner: Debt Déjà Vu
• Eduardo Porter: The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor
• Tim Duy: Fed Struggles With The High Water Mark
• Marshall I. Steinbaum and Bernard A. Weisberger: Economics was Once Radical: Then It Decided Not to Be
• Nick Bunker: A look at U.S. tax rates at the top
• Brad Plumer: The math on staying below 2°C of global warming looks increasingly brutal
• Paul Krugman: Rethinking Japan
• Kenneth Thomas: “The gist of the three cases is that tax haven subsidiaries of each company (Starbucks in the Netherlands, Fiat in Luxembourg, and Apple in Ireland) were given advance tax rulings by each country that [the EU judged] were so removed from economic reality as to constitute illegal subsidies (‘state aid’ in Euro-speak) under EU competition law…”

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Mary Furner (1975): Advocacy and Objectivity: A Crisis in the Professionalization of American Social Science, 1865-1905
• Andrew Lambert: Nelson, Trafalgar, and the Meaning of Victory
• • Associated Press: US film of parachuting beavers found after 65 years (it’s OK, they survived)
• Mark Zuckerberg: A Year of Books

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Mark Thoma: The Lofty Promise and Humble Reality of International Trade
• Martin Sandbu: “In response to Federal Reserve vice-chairman Stanley Fischer’s latest speech, Brad DeLong succinctly explains why the challenge of reducing interest rates below zero means central banks should optimally aim to stay behind the curve rather than ahead of it–that is to say, better tighten too late than too soon…”
• Paul Krugman: “It’s also worth noting the difference in perspective that comes from having your original intellectual home in international versus domestic macroeconomics. I would say that Brainard’s experience is dominated not so much by the Great Moderation as by the Asian financial crisis and Japan’s stagnation; internationally oriented macro types were aware earlier than most that Depression-type issues never went away…”
• Francesco Saraceno: “Inflation-targeting central banks, like the ECB, de facto target the output gap, but timidly and without explicitly saying so. This leads to low reactivity and opaque communication…. Those who followed the EMU policy debate in the past few years will know what I am talking about…. [at] the Fed the opacity results from an ongoing debate on how to best attain an objective that is clear and shared…. The ECB opacity is intrinsically linked to the confusion between its mandate and its actual action, and as such it cannot lead to any meaningful discussion, but just to legalistic disputes…”
• Daniel Bell (1960): The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with “The Resumption of History in the New Century”
• Albert O. Hirschman: Development Projects Observed
• Paul Krugman: Nutcases and Knut Cases
• Macro Advisors: GDP Tracking
• William Dudley: Too Early to Think About a Rate Rise
• Martin Sandbu: Europe’s Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt
• W. Arthur Lewis (1978): Evolution of the International Economic Order
• MathBabe’s Guest: Dirty Rant About The Human Brain Project

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• NickS: “Charlie Stross has a good time complaining about the poor script-writing for the 21st century…”
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Long Winter
• Erich S. Gruen: The Last Generation of the Roman Republic
• Wikipedia: Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
• Boeing 367-80 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• La Chanson de Roland
• Marxist Internet Archive: Trotsky eBook Collection
• John Johnson: Geoffrey Marcy: The Long Con
• Jessica Lachenal: Berkeley Department Head Gibor Basri Sends Misguided Letter to Staff About Serial Harasser Geoff Marcy
• Jessica Lachenal: UC Berkeley Astronomy Professor Geoffrey Marcy Violated Sexual Harassment Policies
• Wikipedia: Eric Foner
• Cathryn Lavery**: Nightly Routines and How To Sleep Hack your way to a Productive Morning
• Miriam Burstein: How to Write an Essay About Teaching that Will Not Be Published in the NYT, Chronicle, IHE, or Anywhere Else

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Simon Wren-Lewis: “Political journalists… try hard to be unbiased in a party-political sense… because there are political machines that try and hold them to that….. Being unbiased towards the facts and… their duty to inform, are at least as important…. [But] there are no equivalent mechanisms…”
• Helaine Olen: “Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Jeb Bush have something in common: ‘multilevel marketing’ companies that prey upon the desperate and broke…”
• Sara Goldrick-Rab: Make College Free
• Paul Romer: Speeding-up and Missed Opportunities: Evidence
• Joshua Gans: The Romer Model turns 25
• Maury Obstfeld: The quest for robust and synchronised growth
• Mike Konczal: Four Ways of Looking at a TBTF Subsidy: A Reply to Dean Baker

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Heather: Former Mistress Alleges David Vitter Asked Her to Get an Abortion
• Mark Parry: Economist Dani Rodrik Turns Sleuth: A Harvard Economist. A Coup Plot. A Career Forever Changed
• Cheryl’s on 12th

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Martin Sandbu: Free Lunch: Mutiny at the Fed
• Stephen Breyer (2014): NLRB v. Canning
• Jason Furman and Peter Orszag: A Firm-Level Perspective on the Role of Rents in the Rise in Inequality
• Rajiv Sethi: Threats Perceived When There Are None
• Matthew Yglesias: The Budget Deficit Is Way too Low
• Katharine Trendacosta: Rejoice Researchers: Court Rules That Google Books Is Not Infringement)
• Angus Deaton: Weak States, Poor Countries
• Mike the Mad Biologist: Surprisingly, Something Involving Henry Kissinger Turned To Sh-t: Theranos Edition

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Jim Tankersley: The Great Recession and the Middle Class (with image, tweets)
• David Cay Johnston: A Rising Tide Does Not Lift All Boats
• Kevin O’Rourke: Secular Stagnation: Economic Impossibilities for Our Grandchildren?
• Ben Thompson: Venture Capital and the Internet’s Impact
• Larry Summers: Another Argument for Infrastructure Repair
• Greg Sargent: Freedom Frauds
• Paul Romer: Looking Back on Romer (1990): Nonrival Goods After 25 Years | Human Capital and Knowledge | Clear Writing Produces Clearer Thoughts | Economic Growth
• Mancur Olson (2000): Power And Prosperity, Outgrowing Communist And Capitalist Dictatorships
• John Quiggin: “For-profit education has been a disastrous failure wherever it has been tried, and particularly where for-profit firms can gain access to public funds through policies designed to enhance ‘consumer choice’…”

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Charlie Stross: 21st Century: A Complaint
• alltheMOOCs course search engine
• Scott Keyes: “A second House Republican has now conceded that the overarching purpose of the House Select Committee on Benghazi has been to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…. Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) argued on Wednesday that the Majority Leader had it right…”
• John Scalzi: I and Ana Marie Cox Geek Out About Politics and Science Fiction

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Daniel Davies: “To solve Britain’s housing crisis we don’t need to build more houses, we need to fix our rental laws…”
• Jared Bernstein: Fed Fight!
• Vasco Cúrdia: Why So Slow? A Gradual Return for Interest Rates
• Ben Thompson: “Venture capitalists are arbitrageurs… [with] more information than those with the capital… more capital than those with information… exploiting the mismatch…. This is not a bad thing! Our entire economy is predicated on middlemen… an entire supply chain of middlemen that results in $4 toast from wheat that costs $4/bushel…”
• Noah Smith: It Isn’t Just Asian Immigrants Who Thrive in the U.S.
• Douglas Staiger, James H. Stock, and Mark W. Watson (1997): How Precise Are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Ben Thompson: Venture Capital and the Internet’s Impact
• Steven Levy: How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
• TV Tropes: Ancillary Justice
• T. S. Boyajian et al.: Planet Hunters X: KIC 8462852–Where’s the Flux?
• James Aitcheson: Sworn Sword, ch. 1
• ‘Shrooms: Phallus Indusiatus
• Ann Leckie: She Commands Me and I Obey

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Chris Blattman: Why Angus Deaton Deserved the Nobel Prize in Economics
• Mark Thoma sends us to Simon Wren-Lewis: mainly macro: One reason why monetary policy is preferred by New Keynesians
• John Voorheis, Nolan McCarty, and Boris Shor: Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock: How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization
• Yi Wen: The Making of an Economic Superpower–Unlocking China’s Secret of Rapid Industrialization
• Paul Krugman: Angus Deaton and the Dodd-Frank Election
• Matt Phillips: Bernanke: I’m not really a Republican anymore
• Oregon Economic Forum to examine the post-recovery economy
• Matt Bruenig: The Egalitarian Program in Broad Strokes
• Vasco Curdia: Why So Slow? A Gradual Return for Interest Rates

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Edward Luce: The Age of Banana Republicans
• John Scalzi: My Annual Moment of Appreciation for WordPress VIP
• Michael Rapoport: NYCC 2015: Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong Ponder the ‘Star Trek’ Economy

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Matthew Yglesias: “Conor Friedersdorf… from some alternate universe in which the House Republican caucus hasn’t just thrown itself into a tailspin over a few dozen nutters’ insistence that the entire fabric of the American economy must collapse unless Barack Obama agrees to implement the entire Republican Party platform…. The idea that Democrats should play a game of ‘heads the GOP wins, tails the Democrats lose’ may make for a fun holier than thou hot take, but it’s also ridiculous…”
• Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (2012): Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem
• Jeffrey Frankel: Why Support the TPP?
• Jason Furman: Next Steps for Health Care Reform
• Martin Wolf: Alphachatterbox
• Kevin O’Rourke: Economic Impossibilities for Our Grandchildren?

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Bill Spriggs: The Republican Dilemma
• Michael DeLong: The Attack on Voting Rights

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Robert Reich: Why Capitalism Needs Saving
• Bryann DaSilva: 10 Things You Should Know About Disability Insurance | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Heather Stewart: Next financial crash is coming–and before we’ve fixed flaws from last one
• Ben Casselman: It’s Getting Harder To Move Beyond a Minimum-Wage Job
• Daniel Kahneman (2012): Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Dani Rodrik: The Mirage of Structural Reform
• Bruce Bartlett: The Fed: Being Goaded into Raising too Soon?

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz: From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
• Claudio Ivan Remeseira: Pope Francis, Perón, and God’s People: The Political Religion of Jorge Mario Bergoglio
• Aaron Bleyaert: How to Lose Weight in 4 Easy Steps
• Leah Schnelbach: The Pilot for The Expanse Is a Tense Socio-Political Thriller Inside a Gritty Space Opera