Weekend Reading

Recovery from the Great Recession

Neil Irwin finds five sectors to blame for the slow recovery from the Great Recession. [the upshot]

Dean Baker does a similar exercise and finds a different story. [beat the press]

Structural or cyclical?

What’s driving the increase in part-time employment? [atlanta fed]

Innovation

Ben Cassleman says don’t believe the hype. Corporate America hasn’t been disrupted [fivethirtyeight]

Inequality at the high end

Isabella Kaminska on Piketty and the role of randomness in the distribution of wealth. [ft alphaville]

Matt Ygelsias make the case for a maximum wage [vox]

Reactions to the S&P report on inequality and economic growth

Paul Krugman: inequality’s a drag [ny times]

Jared Bernstein on what he knows and what he doesn’t know about inequality and growth [on the economy]