Things to Read at Lunchtime on April 6, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Morning Must-Must-Read: Eric Lonergan: The Pigou Effect Is Smarter than You Think
• Lunchtime Must-Read: Henry Aaron: Government Spending Can Cut the U.S. Deficit
• Liz Schott: “This [Kansas] provision makes it nearly impossible for a recipient who does not have a checking account to pay rent…”
• Morning Must-Read: Justin Fox: Are Money Managers Lemmings?
• Morning Must-Read: David Warsh: Back to Cranks at AEI
• Dean Baker: Tyler Cowen’s Three-Card Monte on Inequality)
• Today’s Must-Must-Read: Simon Wren-Lewis: Do Not Underestimate the Power of Wrong Microfoundations!
• Carola Conces Binder: Politicians or Technocrats: Who Splits the Cake?
• Erik Sandberg-Diment (1985): “The real future of the laptop computer will remain in the specialized niche markets. Because no matter how inexpensive the machines become, and no matter how sophisticated their software, I still can’t imagine the average user taking one along when going fishing.”
• Tim Duy: Thoughts on Yellen’s Speech

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Matthew David Surridge: A Detailed Explanation: “I declined a Hugo nomination for this year’s Best Fan Writer award. I think it’s only fair to the people who voted for me to say why. Be warned, this is going to take a while…. My discomfort with being put forward on the Puppy slates come from… the way Torgersen described the thinking and goals of the Sad Puppy project[:]… ‘SAD PUPPIES simply holds its collective hand out — standing athwart “fandom” history–and yells, “Stop!”…. SF/F literature seems almost permanently stuck on the subversive switcheroo. If we’re going to do a Tolkien-type fantasy, this time we’ll make the Orcs the heroes, and Gondor will be the bad guys. Space opera? Our plucky underdogs will be transgender socialists…. Planetary colonization? The humans are the invaders and the native aliens are the righteous victims…. Why did we think it was a good idea to put these things so much on permanent display, that the stuff which originally made the field attractive in the first place–To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before!–is pushed to the side?…”
• Jack Jenkins: How Conservatives Tried (And Failed) To Make Christianity About Being Anti-LGBT