Links for the Week of November 23, 2015
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
Most-Recent Links:
- : "People who have studied the extremist right... are acutely aware... America has been very, very lucky so far when it comes to fascistic political movements. And now... that luck may be about to run out.... Trump is the logical end result of an endless series of assaults on not just American liberalism, but on democratic institutions themselves, by the American right for many years. It is the long-term creep of radicalization of the right come home to roost..."
- : "‘I have got my mind made up, pretty much so,’ says Michael Barnhill, a 67-year-old factory supervisor with a leathery complexion and yellow teeth. ‘The fact is, politicians have not done anything for our country in a lot of years.’ These people are not confused. They are sticking with Trump, the only candidate who gets it, who is man enough to show the enemy who’s boss. Barnhill is wearing a button he just bought from a vender outside the convention center. It says ‘TRUMP 2016: FINALLY SOMEONE WITH BALLS.’"
- : On the Necessary End of the Republican Party... (with tweets)
More Must-Reads:
- Eric Chyn: Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children
- Refet S. Gürkaynak and Troy Davig: Central Bankers as Policymakers of Last Resort
- Charles Arthur: Artificial Intelligence
More Links:
- : Will There Ever Be Another Charlie Munger?
- : Can Digital Technology Make the Herculaneum Scrolls Legible after Two Thousand Years?
- : Worker Protection in the Gig Economy
- : China’s Latest Five-Year Plan
- : Explaining the “History of Technology” Series, and Equitable Growth
- : Moved to Opportunity: The Long-Run Effect of Public Housing Demolition on Labor Market Outcomes of Children
- : Negative interest rates Don't Work
- : Last Line of Antimicrobial Defense Is Falling: [Plasmid] Colistin Resistance Transmission
- : How effective will the 2016 Mandate Penalty be in getting Young Invincibles to enroll?
- : Some Big Changes in Macroeconomic Thinking from Lawrence Summers
- : Central Bankers as Policymakers of Last Resort
- : Artificial Intelligence
- : ‘The Money Makers,’ by Eric Rauchway
- : The Story Of Thanksgiving Is A Science-Fiction Story
- : Native Intelligence
- : Openness and Inequality: Distributional Impacts of Capital Account Liberalization
- : Tax the (Upper) Middle Class, Please: "Taxes aren't punishment. They're part of our shared obligation. Politicians, starting with Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, should learn to speak that language..."
- : The End of One Big Inflation and the Beginning of One Big Myth
- : Don’t Blame the Fed for Low Rates
- : Economists and the Eurozone: Wake Up Calls and Political Capture
- : Xi’s China: The Illusion of Change
- : Where Have All the Workers Gone?
- Labor Board v. Friedman-Harry Marks Clothing Co. :: 301 U.S. 58 (1937)
- : Taking Stock of Quality in Health Care
- : Carlyle, Malthus and Sismondi: The Origins of Carlyle’s Dismal View of Political Economy
- : The U.S. Debt Restructuring of 1933: Consequences and Lessons
- New Republic Minutes
- : The ECB Shows the Zeal of a Convert
- : Washington’s Wave of Anti-Refugee Hysteria Is Missing Something: Facts
- : "Poronkusema. Finnish again. The distance reindeer can travel before needing a comfort break..."
- : ‘Chicagonomics’ and ‘Economics Rules’
- : Clinton on Glass-Steagall: Right or Wrong?
- : An Essential Part of Job Creation Policy Is Missing
- : The Aspen Summit on Inequality and Opportunity - Equitable Growth
