Things to Read on the Evening of April 12, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- Afternoon Must-Read: : Job Turnover and Workers’ Wellbeing
- : “I finished Inequality: What Can Be Done? by Tony Atkinson, and think it’s great. If you’re only going to read one book on the subject, this is more useful than Piketty…. His main focus is how firms make these choices and exercise their market power. What constraints do they face? This depends on the state, and on corporate governance, and on finance. All of these offer paths to influencing income distribution…”
- : Draghi’s Doom Loops: More than Just the Euthanasia of the Rentiers
- (2001): A Theory of the Consumption Function, With and Without Liquidity Constraints
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- : “‘Climate change is going to lead to overall much drier conditions toward the end of the 21st century than anything we’ve seen in probably the last 1,000 years,’ said Benjamin Cook…. But despite the drier conditions and the apocalyptic headlines, California is unlikely to become a parched, uninhabitable hellscape, experts say…”
- Morning Must-Read: The American Prospect 25th Anniversary
- Today’s Must-Must-Read: : What Causes Recessions?