Links for the Week of September 7, 205
Links:
- "I mean, who looks at the economy and says: 'You know what went wrong in the 2000s? We didn't cut high income people's taxes enough'" :
- "Christie says the official low unemployment # is bunk: 'There's someone in the Perkins building who just throws darts at a dartboard.'" :
- Now the DOJ Admits They Got it Wrong :
- Brownback’s Office Attacks ‘Ever-Litigating’ [Kansas] School Districts :
- Why Inkshares Matters to Readers and Writers of Fantasy and Science Fiction :
- Here's Why 2016 Could Be Even Warmer Than 2015 :
- Ted Cruz, Who Repeatedly Vouched For John Roberts [in 2005], Slams Him At Length :
- Must-Read: Labor Economics Are Having a Moment--and so Is Larry Mishel :
- Must-Read: Prevalence of and Trends in Diabetes Among Adults in the United States, 1988-2012 :
- So Where Did That Chinese Dollar Liquidity End Up? :
- Jeb's Tax Plan Makes George W. Bush’s Policies Look Good :
- Must-Read: "If there’s one thing that characterizes our politics now, :
- "Americans’... fall into three groups of roughly equal size: Those who have a moderate to strong preference for auto-centric suburban living, those who have a moderate to strong preference for... walkable urbanis[m]... and those who have weak or no preferences.." :
- Oh Boy. Here We Go Again :
- Jeb's Tax Plan Makes George W. Bush’s Policies Look Good :
- Must-Read: Why the Fed Must Stand Still on Rates :
- Must-Read: Economists vs. Economics :
- Must-Read: The Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker's Pay: Why It Matters and Why It’s Real :
- Must-Read: Stop Comparing Donald Trump And Bernie Sanders :
- Must-Read: Jason Furman: It Could Have Happened Here: The Policy Response That Helped Prevent a Second Great Depression
- Conceptual Pitfalls and Monetary Policy Errors :
- Bargaining for the American Dream | Center for American Progress :
- Why the Fed Must Banish the 1970’s Inflation Devil Before Raising Rates :
- Trailing the Competition: Governor’s Measures of Economic Growth Show Kansas Behind Region :
- "If people on disability were faking it, they wouldn’t have such high death rates. People on disability are three to six times more likely to die than people in their age group who are not on disability." :
- "Here's the problem [with David Brooks]: It was the Republican Party that taught Trump and Carson voters to feel the way they do now.... Republican voters are turning to candidates loosely affiliated with the party because they think those candidates won't compromise... because they learned that compromise was evil from their party..." :
- Supply-Side Policies in the Depression: Evidence from France :
- Linkages and Economic Development :
- Wall of Worries: Reflections on the Secular Stagnation Debate :
- Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology :
- Inflation Expectations and Recovery from the Depression in 1933: Evidence from the Narrative Record :
- New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries :
- Doctrinal Determinants, Domestic and International, of Federal Reserve Policy 1914-1933 :
- Paul Romer has 3 Questions :
- Where are U.S. data on the gig economy? :
- We Put A Falcon And A Rabbit In The Same Room Together: What Happened Will Not Surprise You :
- Must-Read: The Present in Deep History :
- Uneasy Easing :
- Must-Read: Flying Mostly Blind Heading Into the September FOMC Meeting :
- The internet is full of distractions. Here are 7 tips to help you focus :
- This Labor Day, it's time for the U.S. to catch up with the rest of the world :
- Health Reform and Its Legal Controversies :
- Research: Book in preparation: Milton Friedman and Economic Debate in the United States :
- Must-Read: Apple and the TV Market (2010):
- Fed Up with the Fed :
- Must-Read: Using and Abusing Models in Economics: A Review of Rodrik’s Economics Rules :
- Alfred Marshall (1924):
- Big Data, Disparate Impact, and the Neoliberal Mindset :
- A Postscript on Job Guarantees :
- Must-Read: How Welfare Reform Ruined Public Assistance for the Very Poor, According to Kathryn Edin and Luke Shaefer's New Book, $2.00 a Day :
- What's The Effect Of Immigration On London? :
- Must-Read: Trump Is Right on Economics :