Things to Read at Nighttime on September 2, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Michael Grunwald: The Failures of the Army Corps of Engineers
• Must-Read: Matthew Klein: Some Fed thoughts: QE4 and All That
• Must-Read: Michael Burda: Dispelling Three Myths on Economics in Germany
• Must-Read: Mark Thoma: U.S. Inflation Developments
• Peter L. Singer: Federally-Supported Innovations
• Must-Read: Mark Thoma: Syllabus for Monetary Theory and Policy
• Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Base Versus Base
• Rob Stavins: A Key Element for the Forthcoming Paris Climate Agreement
• Martin Wolf: China Risks an Economic Discontinuity
• Aliyah Dar and Douglas Pyper: Zero-Hours Contracts
• Justin Fox: Latin America’s 100 Years of Slow Growth
• Must-Read: Noah Smith: Real Business Cycle Theory as Gaslighting
• Jared Bernstein: Pressures on the Fed
• Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca: America’s Incarcerated Economy
• Must-Read: Mark Thoma: The Triumph of Backward-Looking Economics
• William Easterly: Economic Development I

More Here at Equitable Growth:

• Heather Boushey: Schedules that work for families and the U.S. economy
• Bridget Ansel: Netflix and the paid family leave debate
• Nick Bunker: Measures of U.S. labor market conditions for the Fed to ponder
• Austin Clemens and Marshall Steinbaum: The cruel game of musical chairs in the U.S. labor market
• No, the Federal Reserve Is Not a Market Manipulator
• Martin Wolf and I See the Odds on the Different Future Chinas Somewhat Differently

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Josh Lederman and Mark Thiessen: “President Barack Obama says he’s changing the name of the tallest mountain in North America from Mount McKinley to Denali…”
• Cosma Shalizi: Books to Read While the Algae Grow in Your Fur, August 2015
• Felix Salmon: How one of America’s last free colleges screwed its students and betrayed its legacy