Things to Read at Lunchtime on April 23, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Ted Genoways: “Climate change is making the Texas panhandle, birthplace of the state’s iconic Longhorn, too hot and dry to raise beef. What happens to the range when the water runs out?”
• Dave Gilson: “It’s Not the 1% Controlling Politics. It’s the 0.01 Percent…. About 1,200 Americans control more than 40 percent of election contributions…
• Must-Must-Read: Daniel Davies: Greece–The Next Steps and Scenarios
• Umair Haque: The Asshole Factory
• Nick Bunker: The path to more U.S. exports?
• Must-Read: Jérémie Cohen-Setton: The Critique of Modern Macro
• Must-Read: Brian Buetler: Obamacare Opinion Poll: Repeal Popularity Driven by Old People
• Lawrence Mishel et al.: Wage Inequality: A Story of Policy Choices
• Must-Read: Miles Corak: “After Piketty”: 12 Policy Proposals
• Bob Litan: Economists: Don’t Leave Home without One
• Tony Atkinson: ‘Inequality: What Can Be Done?’
• Alice Rivlin: Priorities for Economic Policy
• Sharon K. Long et al. : Taking Stock: Gains in Health Insurance Coverage under the ACA as of March 2015
• Eduardo Porter: Big Mac Test Shows Job Market Is Not Working to Distribute Wealth
• Nick Bunker: U.S. firms’ high debt loads amplified the Great Recession
• Arin Dube: Public Assistance, Private Subsidies and Low Wage Jobs
• Must-Read: Tony Yates: With Enemies Like These?
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman: That Old-Time Economics

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Peter Kafka: Netflix Aims at TV, Not HBO, Says CEO Reed Hastings
• Jay Rosen: “It’s not that we control NewsFeed, you control NewsFeed…” Facebook: please stop with this
• Jill Pantozzi: Members of Gamergate Planned to “Infiltrate” Calgary Expo to Actively Disrupt Panels, Calgary Expo Has Evicted Them