Things to Read at Nighttime on June 14, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Paul Krugman: “What makes something qualify as a seriously bad idea? In general, to sound serious it must invoke big causes to explain big events — technical matters, like the troubles caused by sharing a currency without a common budget, don’t make the cut. It must also absolve corporate interests and the wealthy from responsibility for what went wrong, and call for hard choices and sacrifice on the part of the little people…
• Must-Read: Joseph E. Stiglitz: The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It:
• Must-Read: Erik Eyster, Matthew Rabin, and Dimitri Vayanos: Financial Markets where Traders Neglect the Informational Content of Prices
• Must-Read: Robert Skidelsky: A Final Word With Niall Ferguson
• Must-Read: Duncan Black: Big Guvmint Keynesians
• Paul Krugman (2014): The Euthanasia of the Rentier – NYTimes.com
• Must-Read: Dietz Vollrath: What Assumptions Matter for Growth Theory?

Over at Equitable Growth—The Equitablog

• Nick Bunker: Weekend reading
• Jessica Fulton: Fair housing, mortgages, and the U.S. Supreme Court

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Borderline Artistic: Mad Max Fury Road Ponies
• Ta-Nehisi Coates (2011): ‘I Have Since Heard of His Death’