Links for the Week of August 17, 2015
Links:
- : "Tobias Buckell looks at... the [SF Hugo] ballot.. with no [puppy] skunks at the picnic. I take the results somewhat personally. Skunkworks kept both ‘The Litany of Earth’ by Ruthanna Emrys and ‘Jackalope Wives’ by Ursula Vernon off the final ballot. I loved both of those stories, and Litany in particular blew my doors off..."
- : The ‘flipped classroom’ is professional suicide
- Must-Read: : Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition
- (2013): Sex, Economics, and Austerity: "The real meaning of Niall Ferguson’s John Maynard Keynes-was-gay jibe-and why Keynes is so threatening to conservative economists and moralists alike..."
- : The Voluntarism Fantasy: "Voluntary social insurance... [in 1900 was] socially fragmented... regionally segregated and isolated... [and only] for working men..."
- : Crystal: "An advert & tracking blocker for iOS"
- : New Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century
- Must-Read: : Paul Krugman Is Wrong
- : "I think everybody’s been surprised by [low interest rates]... flabbergasted. I was flabbergasted.... How can I be an expert in something I never even thought about that seems so unlikely. It’s new territory.... Anybody who is intelligent who is not confused doesn’t understand the situation very well. If you find it puzzling, your brain is working correctly..."
- : "Let’s underline that: 53% of respondents in that Fox News national poll support Trump, Carson, Cruz or Huckabee, which is more than twice the percentage supporting Bush, Walker, Rubio, Kasich or Christie combined..."
- : Paul LePage: The Worst Governor in the World
- : How Project Management Turned into a Scrum
- : There is a better way to read on the internet, and I have found it
- : Your Data Deserve Better than a PDF
- Evernote
- : A Decent Digital Commonplace Book System
- : Save your Kindle Notes and Highlights
- Instapaper
- : IFTTT: Export Instapaper Highlights to Evernote
- (2003): PDF: Unfit for Human Consumption
- : Writing for the Web: Articles, Training & Reports
- : Your Data Deserve Better than a PDF
- : A Decent Digital Commonplace Book System
- Commonplace book -
- Evernote
- Amazon Kindle
- : Save your Kindle Notes and Highlights
- : Notifications
- Instapaper
- IFTTT
- : Charlie Rose Talks to Evernote CEO
- Upgrade to Evernote Premium
- : Context: Your Work Enriched by the Smartest Minds
- : Instapaper and the Curiosity Impulse
- : Re-introducing Instapaper
- : Read It Later: Pocket vs. Instapaper
- : Export Instapaper Highlights to Evernote
- : Clippings.io for Kindle and Evernote
- Instapaper Premium
- : How to back up (export) and restore (import) notes and notebooks
- : Is Government Debt Too Low?
- Must-Read: : Carly Fiorina Did a 4-Minute Riff on Climate Change. Everything She Said Was Wrong
- : [Pregnancy is painful, difficult, and dangerous. No one should be forced into it(http://www.vox.com/2015/8/21/9183529/pregnancy-risks)
- Must-Read: : Fairy Tales
- Must-Read: : A Better Way to Read on the Internet
- Must-Read: : Fairy Tales
- Must-Read: : A Better Way to Read on the Internet
- : "For a candidate who insists 'I'm my own man' anytime he's asked about his famous family lineage, Jeb Bush sure likes calling in blood relatives to help raise campaign cash....George H.W. Bush... Barbara Bush... at the 'Jeb Celebration'... plus George W. Bush..."
- : "Not only is it rare for a hedge fund to have returns that are materially different from what a passive strategy could obtain, but the genuinely active minority exhibits inferior performance..."
- : The Hunting of Hillary
- : Running Python in a Browser Is More Awesome Than You Think
- : 3 data science skills that economists can use
- Must-Read: : Debt Is Good
- Must-Read: : Annotate the World
- (1908): The Moneychangers
- : Federal Reserve Act of 1913
- : History of the Federal Reserve System
- : Structure of the Federal Reserve System
- : 1933 Banking Act
- : Panic of 1907
- : Pujo Committee
- : Membership of the Board of Governors
- : Federal Open Market Committee
- : History of the Federal Reserve
- : Federal Reserve Act
- : Federal Reserve System
- : Running Python in a Browser Is More Awesome Than You Think
- : 3 data science skills that economists can use
- Must-Read: (1984): Conversations with Economists
- Must-Read: : Romer v. Lucas
- Must-Read: (2014): U.S. Economic Prospects: Secular Stagnation, Hysteresis, and the Zero Lower Bound
- : "But that's just a randomized controlled trial. I'm sure we can do better in comments!"
- : "The iron confidence of Establishment Republicans and MSM types and political scientists that all this ‘populist’ nonsense will blow over.... If said leaders cannot even convincingly demonstrate that Jeb’s more electable than Donald Trump, why would Caucus and primary voters follow them over the cliff to support a guy they clearly don’t like?"
- Must-Read: : Reform and Revolution in Macroeconomics
- : The Fed’s Faith-Based 2% Inflation Forecast: Raising rates on the assumption that sub-2% inflation won’t be lasting could be dangerous
- Must-Read: : Despotic Rulers Who Display Their Muscle to Turn Back Time
- : Voxplaining Vox
- : "Most of [Trump's] ideas punish legal immigrants for the actions of people coming here illegally. For all Trump's rhetoric about loving legal immigrants, he intends to either hold them responsible for illegal immigration or hold them hostage in his fight against illegal immigration.... [Another of] Trump's insight here is that the best way to drive unauthorized immigrants... is to target their children and families... ban unauthorized immigrants from receiving tax credits meant to help their children--children who are, remember, US citizens..."
- : "Perry’s zombie campaign lurches forward. He may have no money, but there’s $17 million from super PACs.... Like a brain that can no longer coordinate with its body, Perry has no control.... One must posit two questions: Can candidates in the age of the super PAC ever truly die? And what does a zombie campaign even look like?..."
- : How ambiguity panic motivates conservative culture warriors
- : Europe’s Evidence-Free Policymaking
- Must-Read: : Fairness and Frictions: The Impact of Unequal Raises on Quit Behavior
- : Where is the Acceleration in Wages?
- : ACOs in Medicare
- Must-Read: : Wealth and income distribution: New theories needed for a new era
- Must-Read: : The Success Sequence Is Extremely Misleading And Impossible To Code
- Must-Read: : Renminbi Shift Challenges Global Markets
- : The Chronicles of Prydain is the greatest fantasy series ever written. (Sorry, Harry Potter.)
- : Westmark (The Westmark Trilogy): Lloyd Alexander: 9780141310688: Amazon.com: Books
- : The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
- : A Brilliant Cover to Celebrate 50 Years of Lloyd Alexander's Prydain
- : Bumpy deficits, smoother ride: The historical evolution of budget deficits and growth rate
- : "OK, say the usual suspects... the number of insured... has risen... [but only from] Medicaid expansion... only shocking if... Medicaid recipients... [are] not worth counting.... Even worse... before the ACA went into effect the very same people loudly insisted that expanding Medicaid was worthless, because... it would... crowd out private insurance..."
- : "Does Donald Trump's appeal have anything to do with his policy positions? Republican political consultant Matthew Dowd says it doesn't.... [But] Republicans agree with Trump on immigration.... Republican voters don't want entitlement cuts. Republican elites do..."
- Must-Read: (2013): Reconstructing Macroeconomics
- Must-Read: : The Medicaid Two-Step
- Must-Read: : Three Reasons the Fed Can Wait to Raise Rates
- Must-Read: : The Great Emerging-Market Bubble
- Must-Read: : Corbyn and the Political Economy of Nostalgia
- Must-Read: CEPR: Beat the Press" The Affordable Care Act and Part-Time Employment: Voluntary vs. Involuntary
- Must-Read: : The Two Big Economic Policy Failures That John Maynard Keynes Would Be Disappointed by Today
- How to Reset a Lost Admin Password on Mac OS X: 7 Steps
- Must-Read: : Hottest July On Record Keeps 2015 On Track To Crush 2014 For Hottest Year
- Must-Read: (1979): Summary and Evaluation
- : Amazon's Relentless Work Culture Is Because It's the Startup that Never Grew Up
- : El Niño, Explained: Why This Year's Could Be One of the Strongest on Record
- : The Hunting of Hillary
- Must-Read: : Eternal Greece
- Must-Read: : Nine Views of the Phillips Curve: Eight Authentic and One Inauthentic
- Must-Read: : The Promise and Peril of Macroprudential Policy
- : The Future of Europe
- (2012): Noah Smith vs. Macroeconomics as a Whole
- (2013): Monday Smackdown Watch: Nick Rowe's Smackdown of Stephen Williamson as Economics's Sokal Hoax
- (2010): Narayana Kocherlakota Confuses "Must Lead to" with "Is the Result of"
- (2009): The State of Modern Cutting Edge Macro: Narayana Kocherlakota Leaves Me Puzzled
- Asabiyyah
