Links for the Week of September 21, 2015
- : Economics: What Went Right
- : Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Responsibility for Mass Incarceration
- : Trapped in the System: A Sick Doctor’s Story
- : "Republican primary voters seem to be lukewarm toward Jeb Bush, and you probably think it's at least in part because he's George W.'s brother. But maybe that's wrong.... Embrace your idiot brother, Jeb. It's the most 'politically incorrect' thing you could do. Do it, and the insane Republican base will probably give you a serious second look."
- : Immigration and The GOP
- : "Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finally responded to Boing Boing's uncovering of a 1920s-era story reporting the apparent arrest of his father at a Ku Klux Klan Rally in Queens. As one might expect from The Donald, he confirmed it, denied it, and got angry with 'that little website'...
- : "A wink and a nod later... and the debt is monetised. In the event of a new downturn please press the giant red button. To do so please break through the glass emblazoned with the words 'political reality'..."
- William Baumol (1990): Entrepreneurship: Productive, Unproductive, and Destructive
- Mancur Olson (2000): Power and Prosperity
- : The Importance of Global Health Investment
- **: The Affordable Care Act Is Providing Affordable Care. That’s a Big Problem for Its Opponents
- : More on the Political Economy of Permahawkery
- : Immigration and The GOP
- : The Scourge of Upward Redistribution
- : Is China Leading the World into Recession?
- (2007): The Taylor Rule and the Transformation of Monetary Policy
- (2011): A Conversation on New Economic Thinking withLarry Summers
- : The Global Productivity Slump: Common and Country-Specific Factors
- : "The purported strength of New Classical macroeconomics
- : A Wealth of Common Sense
- : Kevin O'Rourke
- **: The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens
- : How to Make Everything
- : Effect of Lifestyle-Focused Text Messaging on Risk Factor Modification in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- : VW scandal caused nearly 1m tonnes of extra pollution, analysis shows
- : Are the Poor [Today] Better Off than King Louis XIV?
- : The New Holy Grail of Republican Primaries
- : Hail to the Pencil Pusher | Boston Review
- : A dirty dozen decisions deferred
- (1984): Monetary Policy, Loan Liquidation, and Industrial Conflict: The Federal Reserve and the Open Market Operations of 1932
- : David Perry on the Inaccuracy Of “Historical Accuracy” In Gaming And Media
- : Samuelson Collected
- : Fraud, Fools, and Financial Markets
- : Love the URL on @washingtonpost's Walker drop story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/09/21/do-not-pub-do-not-pubscott-walker-suspends-presidential-campaign/
- : In maybe the sweetest bit of irony that ad blocking advocates could ever hope for, the [New York Times] article itself, as it was served to me, was so beset by a crippling ad position across the top of the page that I could not scroll it...
- : Behavioral Economics: Useful Even If Not New
- : Public Universities, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy Of Jim Crow: Evidence from North Carolina
- : Baby Shortage: The Demographic Cost of Unemployment
- : Implications of the Growing Gap in Life Expectancy by Income
- : The End of the NASA Window
- : Rate Rage
- : If You See a Little Piketty in This Tax-Haven Book [by Gabriel Zucman], That's Fine
- : The Power of the Nudge: Policy Lessons from Behavioral Economics
- : EVENT: Gabriel Zucman presents “Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens”
- : The Scourge of Upward Redistribution
- : Premium Copayments and the Trade-off between Wages and Employer-Provided Health Insurance
- : Romer v. Lucas
- : Badge, Book, and Candle
- Endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton
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