Things to Read at Lunchtime on July 10, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Narayana Kocherlakota: Fiscal Policy and the Long-Run Neutral Real Interest Rate:
• Bridget Ansel: Does Nevada’s new school choice program hurt low- and middle-income students?
• Josh Barro: “If the only viable option for maintaining the eurozone in the long run requires deeper fiscal links; and if those deeper fiscal links will mean large, indefinite fiscal transfers away from rich countries; and if rich countries entered the eurozone in the first place only because they didn’t believe they would need to make such transfers, then is it hard to understand why those rich countries might not be eager to resolve the Greek crisis in a way that keeps Greece inside the zone?”
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Argentine Lessons For Greece
• Must-Read: Tim Worstall: Whatever Is Happening To Greece, It’s Simply Not Neoliberalism
• Must-Read: Matthew Yglesias: What about the South?
• Must-Read: Robert Solow: On the Irrelevance of the Ramsey Model
• Arash Nekoei and Andrea Weber: “unemployment insurance has a positive effect on the quality of jobs that recipients find. This can in turn have a positive effect on future tax revenues…’
• Must-Read: Robert Pindyck: The Use and Misuse of Models for Climate Policy
• Must-Read: Simon Wren-Lewis: Why Germany Wants Rid of Greece
• Noah Smith: The Psychology Behind China’s Bubble
• Must-Read: Luigi Zingales: Who is the legitimate leader on the European side? That is the real question
• Sarah Kliff: Do no harm: There’s an infection hospitals can nearly always prevent. Why don’t they? Central Line Infections and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in Palo Alto
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Policy Lessons From The Eurodebacle

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Matthew Yglesias: “All in all, I think the American system of checks-and-balances has a lot of flaws. But unelected judges invalidating unjust laws that a majority of the public wants invalidated is basically the system working at its best…”
• Mark Liberman: “It tells you something about our culture, I think, that [David] Brooks’ style has not been in any way affected by documentation of his carelessness and outright fabrications. Bullshit sells.”
• assius Dio: Book 66
• Jesus Nut
• **: Fred Brooks
• 3LP Advisors
• Joshuya Best Sushi in Berkeley
• Château Ducru-Beaucaillou
• Modesty Blaise
• Graham Green: The Third Man
• Millennium Restaurant
• Anna North: A ‘Star Trek’ Future Might Be Closer Than We Think