Things to Read on the Morning of August 25, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- : Economic Policy Symposium Proceedings
- Must-Read: : Rate Hike FeverMust-
- Must: The Fed Looks Set to Make a Dangerous Mistake
- : Amir Sufi on Household Debt, Redistribution, and Monetary Policy During the Economic Slump
- Must-Read: : Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition
- : The Voluntarism Fantasy: “Voluntary social insurance… [in 1900 was] socially fragmented… regionally segregated and isolated… [and only] for working men…”
- : New Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century)
- Must-Read: : Paul Krugman Is Wrong
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- : Crystal: “An advert & tracking blocker for iOS”
- (2013): Sex, Economics, and Austerity: “The real meaning of Niall Ferguson’s John Maynard Keynes-was-gay jibe-and why Keynes is so threatening to conservative economists and moralists alike…”
- : “Tobias Buckell looks at… the [SF Hugo] ballot.. with no [puppy] skunks at the picnic. I take the results somewhat personally. Skunkworks kept both ‘The Litany of Earth’ by Ruthanna Emrys and ‘Jackalope Wives’ by Ursula Vernon off the final ballot. I loved both of those stories, and Litany in particular blew my doors off…”
- : The ‘flipped classroom’ is professional suicide
- **: Why the 2016 Republican Nomination Can’t Be Predicted Through History
- : Reading Group: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me