Links for the Week of October 12, 2015
- : "Political journalists... try hard to be unbiased in a party-political sense... because there are political machines that try and hold them to that..... Being unbiased towards the facts and... their duty to inform, are at least as important.... [But] there are no equivalent mechanisms..."
- : "Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Jeb Bush have something in common: ‘multilevel marketing’ companies that prey upon the desperate and broke..."
- : "For-profit education has been a disastrous failure wherever it has been tried, and particularly where for-profit firms can gain access to public funds through policies designed to enhance ‘consumer choice’..."
- : "A second House Republican has now conceded that the overarching purpose of the House Select Committee on Benghazi has been to attack former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.... Rep. Richard Hanna (R-NY) argued on Wednesday that the Majority Leader had it right..."
- : "Venture capitalists are arbitrageurs... [with] more information than those with the capital... more capital than those with information... exploiting the mismatch.... This is not a bad thing! Our entire economy is predicated on middlemen... an entire supply chain of middlemen that results in $4 toast from wheat that costs $4/bushel..." https://www.evernote.com/l/AAGZsgOTOgFARpJlNxF8VZZaehwg5x96TwsB/image.png
- : Ancillary Justice
- : The Budget Deficit Is Way too Low
- : Speeding-up and Missed Opportunities: Evidence
- : The quest for robust and synchronised growth
- : Four Ways of Looking at a TBTF Subsidy: A Reply to Dean Baker
- : The Romer Model turns 25
- : Make College Free
- : Rejoice Researchers: Court Rules That Google Books Is Not Infringement
- : Weak States, Poor Countries
- : Surprisingly, Something Involving Henry Kissinger Turned To Sh-t: Theranos Edition
- : Free Lunch: Mutiny at the Fed
- (2014): NLRB v. Canning
- : A Firm-Level Perspective on the Role of Rents in the Rise in Inequality
- : Threats Perceived When There Are None
- : I and Ana Marie Cox Geek Out About Politics and Science Fiction
- : The Great Recession and the Middle Class (with image, tweets)
- : A Rising Tide Does Not Lift All Boats
- : Secular Stagnation: Economic Impossibilities for Our Grandchildren?
- : Looking Back on Romer (1990): Nonrival Goods After 25 Years | Human Capital and Knowledge | Clear Writing Produces Clearer Thoughts | Economic Growth
- (2000): Power And Prosperity, Outgrowing Communist And Capitalist Dictatorships
- : Planet Hunters X: KIC 8462852--Where’s the Flux?
- : "To solve Britain's housing crisis we don't need to build more houses, we need to fix our rental laws..."
- : Freedom Frauds
- : Venture Capital and the Internet's Impact
- : Why So Slow? A Gradual Return for Interest Rates
- Larry Summers: Another Argument for Infrastructure Repair
- : 21st Century: A Complaint
- alltheMOOCs course search engine
- 'Shrooms: Phallus Indusiatus
- : She Commands Me and I Obey
- : Fed Fight!
- : Venture Capital and the Internet's Impact
- : Sworn Sword, ch. 1
- (1997): How Precise Are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?
- : How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina
- : It Isn't Just Asian Immigrants Who Thrive in the U.S.
- : Why Angus Deaton Deserved the Nobel Prize in Economics
- : NYCC 2015: Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong Ponder the ‘Star Trek’ Economy
- : My Annual Moment of Appreciation for WordPress VIP
- : The Egalitarian Program in Broad Strokes
- : Why So Slow? A Gradual Return for Interest Rates
- Mark Thoma sends us to : mainly macro: One reason why monetary policy is preferred by New Keynesians
- : Angus Deaton and the Dodd-Frank Election
- : The Making of an Economic Superpower--Unlocking China’s Secret of Rapid Industrialization
- : Unequal Incomes, Ideology and Gridlock: How Rising Inequality Increases Political Polarization
- : Bernanke: I’m not really a Republican anymore
- : The Age of Banana Republicans
- Oregon Economic Forum to examine the post-recovery economy
