Things to Read on the Afternoon of October 1, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Nick Bunker: The relationship between U.S. productivity growth and the decline in the labor share of national income
• Barry Eichengreen* and Marc Flandreau (2009): The rise and fall of the dollar (or when did the dollar replace sterling as the leading reserve currency?)
• Barry Eichengreen (2011): Exorbitant Privilege
• Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau (2012): The Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, and the Rise of the Dollar as an International Currency, 1914–1939
• George P. Topulos et al.: Planned Parenthood at Risk
• Atif R. Mian, Amir Sufi, and Emil Verner: Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Scott Erik Kaufman: [“I’m making the right enemies: ‘quoting verbatim’ is the new ‘lying,’ at least according to some people Bill O’Reily”
• Ed Kilgore: “I noted one report earlier this week that Republican voters in South Carolina didn’t much care whether Carly Fiorina was a successful executive at HP or a rolling disaster. But today Megan McArdle becomes the first pundit I’ve read to say it doesn’t much matter…”