Procrastinating on November 25, 2016

Preview of Procrastinating on November 20 2016

Over at Equitable Growth: Must- and Should-Reads:

Central Banks, Neutral Policy, and Economic Structure - Equitable Growth
What Will Trump's Trade Policy Be? - Equitable Growth
Trumpism on Trade as a Wild Goose Chase - Equitable Growth
Daniel Nexon: Scott Eric Kaufman: "People are sharing this compendium of posts by the late Scott Eric Kaufman...
David Weil and Heidi Sherholz: CBO Report Confirms What We Already Knew: "The Congressional Budget Office released a study of the economic impact of reversing these updates to the overtime regulations...
Mark Thoma: New Economic Thinking Is Needed to Stop Party Crashers Like Trump: "We must take steps such as support of unionization that equalize bargaining power in wage negotiations...
David Jacks et al.: Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition: "Exploiting county-level variation in prohibition status...

Interesting Reads:

Daniel Alpert and Robert Hockett: The Debt Goes On: A Post-Crisis “Progress” Report
Gita Gopinath: Demonetization Dos and Don’ts
Wikipedia: Call the Midwife
Martin Wolf: Brexiters choose to target the messenger: The ideologically driven assault on the OBR’s sober professionalism is disgraceful
Tim Noah (2012): The Mobility Myth: Why everyone overestimates American equality of opportunity...

And Over Here:

Should-Read: David Jacks et al.: Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition: "Exploiting county-level variation in prohibition status...
Must-Read: Mark Thoma: New Economic Thinking Is Needed to Stop Party Crashers Like Trump: "We must take steps such as support of unionization that equalize bargaining power in wage negotiations...
Should-Read: David Weil and Heidi Sherholz: CBO Report Confirms What We Already Knew: "The Congressional Budget Office released a study of the economic impact of reversing these updates to the overtime regulations...
Must-Read: Daniel Nexon: Scott Eric Kaufman: "People are sharing this compendium of posts by the late Scott Eric Kaufman...
Would Higher Interest Rates Right Now Boost US Growth?: No Longer Fresh at Project Syndicate
Weekend Reading: Via Josh Marshall: On James Comey
Quo Usque Tandem Abutere, Trumpetina?
What Will Trump Trade Policy Be?
Question: Is This a Recipe Principally Designed to Make Eating Up the Huge Pumpkin Harvest Possible and Palatable? Or Is This Something Else?
On a Thousand Year Timescale, the Human Race Really Is Just One Big Unhappy Family
American Patriotism: New England vs. Virginia vs. Ethno-Linguistic
Anybody Feel Like Making a Cleaned-Up Transcript of This: Historical Scholarship and the New Media?
Weblogger of the Month: Scott Eric Kaufman
Central Banks, Neutral Policy, and Economic Structure
Trumpism on Trade as a Wild Goose Chase

You Might Look at:

H. P. Lovecraft: The Cats of Ulthar
Red Truck Rural Bakery
Huineng Points at the Moon ~ 惠能指月
SEK: In Memoriam
Mary Beard: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome: http://amzn.to/2fvWh9l
Duck of Minerva

Perhaps Worth Reading...

We Are with Her!

Looking Forward to Four Years During Which Most if Not All of America's Potential for Human Progress Is Likely to Be Wasted

With each passing day Donald Trump looks more and more like Silvio Berlusconi: bunga-bunga governance, with a number of unlikely and unforeseen disasters and a major drag on the country--except in states where his policies are neutralized.

Nevertheless, remember: WE ARE WITH HER!

Blogging: What to Expect Here

We are going to need more monkeys blogging Google Search

The purpose of this weblog is to be the best possible portal into what I am thinking, what I am reading, what I think about what I am reading, and what other smart people think about what I am reading...

"Bring expertise, bring a willingness to learn, bring good humor, bring a desire to improve the world—and also bring a low tolerance for lies and bullshit..." — Brad DeLong

"I have never subscribed to the notion that someone can unilaterally impose an obligation of confidentiality onto me simply by sending me an unsolicited letter—or an email..." — Patrick Nielsen Hayden

"I can safely say that I have learned more than I ever would have imagined doing this.... I also have a much better sense of how the public views what we do. Every economist should have to sell ideas to the public once in awhile and listen to what they say. There's a lot to learn..." — Mark Thoma

"Tone, engagement, cooperation, taking an interest in what others are saying, how the other commenters are reacting, the overall health of the conversation, and whether you're being a bore..." — Teresa Nielsen Hayden

"With the arrival of Web logging... my invisible college is paradise squared, for an academic at least. Plus, web logging is an excellent procrastination tool.... Plus, every legitimate economist who has worked in government has left swearing to do everything possible to raise the level of debate and to communicate with a mass audience.... Web logging is a promising way to do that..." — Brad DeLong

"Blogs are an outlet for unexpurgated, unreviewed, and occasionally unprofessional musings.... At Chicago, I found that some of my colleagues overestimated the time and effort I put into my blog—which led them to overestimate lost opportunities for scholarship. Other colleagues maintained that they never read blogs—and yet, without fail, they come into my office once every two weeks to talk about a post of mine..." — Daniel Drezner

Grasping Reality with Both Hands: bradford-delong.com:

If you would rather just see Highlighted Posts...