Noted for Your Morning Procrastination for August 25, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- Economic Policy Symposium Proceedings :
- Must-Read: Rate Hike FeverMust- :
- MustThe Fed Looks Set to Make a Dangerous Mistake :
- Amir Sufi on Household Debt, Redistribution, and Monetary Policy During the Economic Slump :
- Must-Read: Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition :
- The Voluntarism Fantasy: "Voluntary social insurance... [in 1900 was] socially fragmented... regionally segregated and isolated... [and only] for working men..." :
- New Thoughts on Capital in the Twenty-First Century :
- Must-Read: Paul Krugman Is Wrong :
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
Plus:
And Over Here:
- Live from the Roasterie: Ezra Klein: 'The switch from print to digital changed three things...
- Monday Scott Walker Self-Smackdown: I-Am-a-Total-Clown-Edition
- What the Frack Is Going on in Europe?
- Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Rate Hike Fever
- None of Concerns About Inflation, Employment, Financial Stability, or Inequality Justify Raising Interest Rates Over the Next Year or So...
- Must-Read: Lawrence Summers: The Fed Looks Set to Make a Dangerous MistakeComment of the Day: Erik Lund: 'It seems more likely that human populations expanding into pristine ecological/economic niches...
- Links for the Week of August 17, 2015
- Must-Read: Paul Krugman: Nobody Could Have Predicted, Interest Rates Edition
- Monday Smackdown: Time to Shut the New York Times Down. immediately. For Good.
- George R.R. Martin Wins Science Fiction's Hugo Awards for All Time...
- Stan Collender: Paul Krugman Is Wrong
Might Like to Be Aware of:
- Crystal: "An advert & tracking blocker for iOS" :
- 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..." (2013):
- "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 :
- Why the 2016 Republican Nomination Can't Be Predicted Through History **:
- Reading Group: Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me :