Things to Read on the Afternoon of June 15, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Victoria Stillwell: “Factory production unexpectedly declined in May as the slump in energy output deepened. The 0.2 percent decrease at manufacturers…. Total industrial production, which also includes mines and utilities, also dropped 0.2 percent…”
• Must-Read: Lawrence Summers: Rescuing the Free-Trade Deals
• Must-Read: Mike Konczal: What’s Left After Higher Education Is Dismantled
• Must-Read: Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes: Living Arrangements, Doubling Up, and the Great Recession: Was This Time Different?
• Must-Read: Corey Robin: “Professors” Do Far Less Teaching than the Public Imagines
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman: I’m With Stupid
• Must-Read: David Zweig: The facts vs. David Brooks
• Must-Read: Peter Orszag: Congress Doesn’t Understand Health Costs, or Care
• Must-Read: Marshall Steinbaum: Sampling Bias in “Firming Up Inequality”
• Cory Doctorow (2013): Robots Are Taking Your Job and Mine: Deal with It

Over at Equitable Growth—The Equitablog

• Nick Bunker: What happens when firms can choose wages – Washington Center for Equitable Growth
• Marshall Steinbaum: Mis-measuring U.S. income inequality at the very top

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Tez Clark: These graphs show the veto power of white men in politics
• Robert Waldmann: Go Ask Moses
• Mary Robinette Kowal (2013): Body Language