Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Must-Read: Tim Duy: Flying Mostly Blind Heading Into the September FOMC Meeting
• Must-Read: Charlie Stross: The Present in Deep History
• Martin Sandbu: Uneasy Easing
• Teresa Tritch: "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."
• Kansas Economic Progress Council: Trailing the Competition: Governor’s Measures of Economic Growth Show Kansas Behind Region
• Mark Thoma: Why the Fed Must Banish the 1970’s Inflation Devil Before Raising Rates
• Jérémie Cohen-Setton, Joshua K. Hausman, and Johannes F. Wieland: Supply-Side Policies in the Depression: Evidence from France
• Dominick Bartelme and Yuriy Gorodnichenko: Linkages and Economic Development
• Barry Eichengreen: Wall of Worries: Reflections on the Secular Stagnation Debate
• Daniel P. Gross: Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology
• Andrew Jalil and Gisela Rua: Inflation Expectations and Recovery from the Depression in 1933: Evidence from the Narrative Record
• Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer: New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries
• Barry Eichengreen: Doctrinal Determinants, Domestic and International, of Federal Reserve Policy 1914-1933
• Richard Freeman, Eunice Han, David Madland, and Brendan Duke: Bargaining for the American Dream | Center for American Progress
• Andrew Levin: Conceptual Pitfalls and Monetary Policy Errors
• Must-Read: Jason Furman: It Could Have Happened Here: The Policy Response That Helped Prevent a Second Great Depression

Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog

• The Dispute Over the Trend Compensation Share of Labor: Is the Decline Secular or Cyclical, Workplace Power or Technology-Driven?

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