Noted for Your Lunchtime Procrastination for April 21, 2015
- Liveblogging History: 753 BC: Livy on the Founding of Rome
- "Comment of the Day: Adam Morrow: 'At the family practice office I worked at the past 2 months (a Federally qualified community health center)...":
- "Tweet of the Day: Mark Dow: On Twitter on Tony Yates on John Taylor":
- "Across the Wide Missouri: Andrew Liptak: Craving a new military science fiction thrillride? Pick up these books"
- Monday Smackdown: Uwe Reinhardt Eviscerates John Goodman
- Liveblogging World War II: April 20, 1945: Winston S. Churchill on Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Weekend Reading: Tony Yates on John Taylor
- "Tweet of the Day: @grodeau: buying German bonds at negative interest rates is like throwing dimes in front of the steamroller!":
- Across the Wide Missouri: Bill Clinton: 20th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing
- Henry Swann Liveblogs World War II: April 19, 1945: German Complicity in Nazi Atrocities
- Keynesian Multipliers, Investment Accelerators, and Crowding-in
- Weekend Reading: Vivian Gornick's Review of ‘Eleanor Marx: A Life,’ by Rachel Holmes
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- : [Barney Frank's Memoir](http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/04/16-barney-frank-memoir-mann>
- : "I am relieved beyond measure to see that The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (translated by Ken Liu) has been added to the Best Novel Hugo shortlist in place of Lines of Departure.... This reaffirms to me... that withdrawing Lines of Departure from the shortlist was 1000% the right call to make..." http://www.munchkinwrangler.com/2015/04/16/gladness/
- (1879): Notes on Railroad Accidents
- : The Hugo Awards Hijack: Nasty, Dishonest--But It Just Proves Progressives Right
- : "On Saturday, April 18th, I informed the administrators at Sasquan that we have withdrawn Black Gate from consideration for the 2015 Hugo Award.... I have serious concerns about the legitimacy of the 2015 Hugo ballot, as it was largely dictated by a single individual, Vox Day, who campaigned for a slate of nominees on his website (the Rapid Puppies slate). To a lesser extent, it was also influenced by Brad Togersen’s Sad Puppies slate. Together, the two slates successfully placed 61 nominees on the ballot. Black Gate was part of the Rabid Puppies ballot, although we were unaware of our inclusion until we were informed of our nomination..."
- : Keeping Up With the Hugos, 4/20/15
- : Lesser-Known Trolley Problem Variations.
- : Keeping Up with the Hugos, 4/20/15 | Whatever
- Marko Kloos (@markokloos): ["If there has ever been a day that called for a big slice of NY cheesecake and a double dram of Scotch on the side, today is it.. https://."[(https://twitter.com/markokloos/status/588501714279538688)
Must- and Should-Reads:
- : The class war in American politics is over. The rich won
- : Why Unions Matter
- Must-Read: : It Takes A Regime Shift to Raise an Economy
- Must-Read: : Euro-Area Governance: What to Reform and How
- : UK Mediamacro Myths: An Introduction
- : Public Assistance, Private Subsidies and Low Wage Jobs
- : No More Cheating: Restoring the Rule of Law in Financial Markets
- : 7 Charts on What Obamacare Critics Get Wrong
- : The Effect of Rising Inequality on Social Security
- : "Is it the case that, compared to a few decades ago, there are far fewer papers in the top journals that simply try and explain historical time series for a single key macro aggregate (like consumption or saving)? If that is the case, is this due to the difficulties in getting microfounded models to fit, or something else?"
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
- Where Oh Where Is the Excess Demand Going?
- Over at Grasping Reality: Weekend Reading: Tony Yates: On John Taylor
- Keynesian Multipliers, Investment Accelerators, and Crowding-in
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