Things to Read for Your Evening Procrastination on October 18, 2015
Must- and Should-Reads:
- "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..." :
- Make College Free :
- Speeding-up and Missed Opportunities: Evidence :
- The Romer Model turns 25 :
- The quest for robust and synchronised growth :
- Four Ways of Looking at a TBTF Subsidy: A Reply to Dean Baker :
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog
- Are Our Economic Problems New (Robots) or Old (Forgetting Keynes)?
- Wages and Technology: Substitutes and Complements, Teamsters and Handloom Weavers
Plus:
And Over Here:
- Live from Where the Willamette Meets the Columbia: Urban Farmer Portland
- Live from Crow's Coffee: Ezra Klein: Donald Trump Has Figured Out Jeb Bush's Greatest Weakness
- Yes, George W. Bush Deserves 10% of the Blame for 9/11, and 110% of the Blame for His Execrable Performance as a President After
- For the Weekend...: Josh Ritter: Getting Ready to Get Down
- Wages and Technology: Substitutes and Complements, Teamsters and Handloom Weavers
- Are Our Economic Problems New (Robots) or Old (Forgetting Keynes)?
- Hoisted from U.S. State Department Archives: Tony Blair Screws the Pooch in Spring 2002 More Massively than I Would Ever Have Believed
- Weekend Reading: Stephen Pinker: How My Mind Works
- Live from La Farine: io9 sends us to Ann Leckie writing about her ten favorite science fiction books
- Live from La Farine: The Good, the Bad, and the Uber
- Must-Read: Paul Romer: Speeding-up and Missed Opportunities: Evidence
- The Death of Athelings...
Might Like to Be Aware of: