Links for the Week of December 7, 2015
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- : Where Are the Power Relations in Piketty’s Capital?: "There seems to be a friction between the diagnosis... of the power of capital... and the suggested cure... [of] well-minded citizens... recogniz[ing] the... problem" :: The extremely-sharp Miriam Ronzoni excellently puts her finger on a substantial hole in Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century...
- Ananya Roy: The Land Question: "The infrastructure problem, it turns out, is effectively a land problem..."
- : Why Conspiracy Theories Flourish on the Right: "The most engaged conservative voters... won't trust conservative elites any more than they trust liberals, scientists, or the media..."
- : Why Education Does Not Fix Poverty: "To the extent that education does nothing to provide better income support for those who do find themselves in these vulnerable situations, its effect on overall poverty levels will always be weak, or, as with the US in the last 23 years, totally nonexistent..."
Most-Recent Links:
- : Run, Trump, Run! (As an Independent)
- : Why Fascism is Rising Again (And What You Can Learn From It)
- : Business in the United States: Who Owns it and How Much Tax Do They Pay?
- : Good Policy Is the Goal. Compromise Should Not Be: "Matt Bruenig just wrote an excellent series of posts dismantling a misguided ‘Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream’ from the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution..."
More Must-Reads:
- : "Cockroaches: It doesn't seem like there's a 'culturally Muslim' category to which a non-believer like me might belong (and I probably wouldn't fit in it anyway) but I admit I found this--the casualness of it, and the acceptability--upsetting..."
- : Why It's Tricky for Fed Officials to Talk Politically: "I think I disagree with Brad DeLong..." :: I would beg the highly-esteemed Mark Thoma to draw a distinction here between "inappropriate" and unwise...
- : Trumpism Is a Natural Consequence of the GOP Refusing to Moderate on Taxes or Immigration
- : Digital Dopamine
- : Connecting American Foreign Policy to Economic Policy
- (2014): The Pernicious Prison of the Price Theory Paradigm
- : And That's A Wrap
- : Eurodespair
- : Alphachatterbox
- : The Political Aftermath of financial Crises: Going to Extremes
- : That 30s Show
- : Why Energy Storage is About to Get Big--and Cheap
- : Central Bankers do Not Have as Many Tools as They Think
- Jason Furman on residential housing supply, NIMBYism, and economic growth
- : The Not-So-Bad Economy
- : What Lower Bound? Monetary Policy with Negative Interest Rates: ""The gains from negative rates depend inversely on the level and elasticity of currency demand..."
- **: [Obama's Terrorism Speech]http://equitablegrowth.org/?p=16777)
More Links:
- Donald Trump: "My favorite was Harrison Ford on the plane. I love Harrison Ford — and not just because he rents my properties. He stood up for America." Harrison Ford "It’s a movie, Donald, it was a movie. It’s not like this in real life, but how would you know."
- : "The Israeli prime minister denounced Trump's proposal to ban Muslims from visiting the United States..."
- : Erick Erickson’s mother calls him a liar: “Somebody is making that up about my son” she said of his tweet about boycotting “Asian” food on December 7th
- (2013): 'In a Starving, Bleeding, Captive Land': Some Thoughts on Tony Judt's Opus Postwar
- (2011): Last Night's Event with Carmen Reinhart
- : There’s more to capital taxation than capital gains
- (2014): Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy on Financial Institutions
- : Controversial Quantum Machine Bought by NASA and Google Shows Promise
- : Slow Train Wreck
- : We’ve Grown Apart
- : "I’ve often wondered what the obvious opposite of [Peter] Heather’s ‘serious historian’--a frivolous one--might write. Having read Ferguson’s ill-judged and shallow analogies between 5th century Rome and 21st century Europe, I think I now know..."
- : Chasing Returns Has a High Cost for Investors
- : Absence of Value: An Analysis of Investment Allocation Decisions by Institutional Plan Sponsors
- The best response to market volatility
- : The Infantilization of American Politics
- : "It is difficult to tell whether this [Cameron climate policy] is about ideology masked with duplicity, or politically driven economic incompetence..."
