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- Income & Earnings Volatility
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Things to Read at Lunchtime on May 29, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

Paul Krugman: Preliminary Notes on Inequality and Urbanism
Tim Wu: Why Are There So Many Shuttered Storefronts in the West Village?
Must-Read: Scott Lemieux: David Brooks is not on a Path of Upward Intellectual Mobility
Must-Read: Julie Nelson: Poisoning the Well, or How Economic Theory Damages Moral Imagination
Must-Read: Claudia Goldin: The Quiet Revolution
Must-Read: John Quiggin: The Most Misleading Definition in Economics (Draft Excerpt from Economics in Two Lessons)
Must-Read: Nathan Pippenger: Democracy Journal: Arguments: Arthur Brooks and the Desperate Search for a Smarter Conservatism
Must-Read: Ben Thompson: Vox Acquires Recode; Stars, Money, and Reach; The Apple Car and Jony Ive – Stratechery
Peter Gosselin: Government Austerity Exacts Toll on U.S. Jobs, Wages and Growth

Might Like to Be Aware of:

Marco Arment: Filling the Green Circle
The Not-So-Typical Adventures of Lois McMaster Bujold
Lance Ulanoff: Vox’s acquisition of Re/code is a sign of the tech-blog reckoning to come

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