Links for the Week of January 31, 2016
Latest Must-Reads:
- (2011): Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics
- : Fragility of Purely Real Macroeconomic Models
- : No Take-Backs: The Fed Makes the Best of the Bad Situation It Created
Latest Links:
- : "The old Milton Friedman two-step.... That the Fed could have prevented a disaster... morphs into the claim that the Fed caused the disaster. See, government is the problem, not the solution! And the motivation for this bait-and-switch is, indeed, political..."
- : Why Are We Ruled by These Morons? (Under Secretary of State Bob Joseph Edition)
- : Rubio’s Polling Gain Is The Final Capstone on the Utter Failure of Bush SuperPAC Right To Rise
- (2003): Profits of Doom
- : 11 Notes on Amazon
- : "I guess there will always be a market for books claiming that progressives were The Real Nazis: https://t.co/Qw6dPC2ahr"
MOAR Must-Reads:
- : Education: An Investment, Not a Filter
- : Book Review: "Economics Rules"
- : School Lunches and Medicaid: a BFD
- : Why GDP Fails as a Measure of Well-Being
- : Is Regulation to Blame for the Decline in American Entrepreneurship?
- : On The Dispersion, Or Lack Thereof, of Economic Weakness
- Paul Krugman Reviews ‘The Rise and Fall of American Growth’ by Robert J. Gordon
- Macro Advisers: Tracking the Not-Very-Covery
- : Ask the big question on central banking
- : The Sky Is Not Falling... Yet
- : Capitalists Excel at Giving Themselves a Bad Name
- : Two serious mistakes in the Goodfriend and King review of Riksbank monetary policy
MOAR Links:
- : On Flint’s Shaken Faith, and Its Childrens’ Future
- : Why Asset Tests Need Reform
- : Studies of TPP: Which Is Credible?
- : How Donald Trump Uses "Political Correctness" to Make Sexist Bullying Seem Like Heroism
- : Woman Probably Just Made Up Rape Story In Order To Get Threatening Emails
- **: My Classified Life
- : 5 to 4
- : It’s Preschool Open House Season Motherf------
- (1867): Machinery and Modern Industry
- : "‘Let them eat liberty and secure property rights’ is not an efficacious program for immediate famine relief, whatever its abstract and/or long term merits..."
- : Feminist economics and policymaking
- : "Reason"’s Bizarre Portrayal of Flint’s Water Crisis
- : Fed Fumble
- : Context may be everything when it comes to the Phillips curve
- : Talk of Fed ‘Policy Error’ Grows
- : "The feed is so important that its development — or lack thereof — is the core reason why Facebook has soared over the last ten years, while Twitter has slumped after a beginning that suggested the exact opposite sort of outcome..."
- : Bernie Sanders Says He’s a Democratic Socialist. Here’s What That Means
- : The day Zhao Wei disappeared: how a young law graduate was caught in China's human rights dragnet: "They must be torturing her,’ says Zhao’s mother as she desperately searches for the daughter who vanished seven months ago..."
- : How Bernie Sanders Helped Derail a Promising Legal Fight Against Gun Violence: "The most viable effort in decades to stem the flow of guns onto the black market ended with the immunity bill Sanders helped pass..."
- : America’s dangerous “self-made” mythology: Why our ideas about upward mobility are seriously misinformed
- : New Mystery Added to the Eleusinian Mysteries of the Education Myth
- : Further, further Pettis on China’s new “supply-side” reforms
- : Will China’s new “supply-side” reforms help China? | What does a “good” Chinese adjustment look like? | Thin Air’s money isn’t created out of thin air
- Mark Thoma sends us to Peter Dizikes on : Reality check in the factory
- (54 BC): The Britons Are too Stupid to Even Make Good Slaves
- : Finding Time: The Economics of Work-Life Conflict (Cambridge: Harvard University Press: 9780674660168)
- : Legal Limits and the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
- : Hillary Clinton Is Criticized Because It's Always the Woman's Fault
- : "There are historical precedents for the use of policy tools other than the raising or lowering of the short-term interest rate.... There have been long stretches of European history during which European central bankers have utilized non-interest-rate policy tools... [that can provide] insights into the application of those tools..."
- : Downside Inflation Risk
- : Twitter Needed Strategy
- : Long-term effects of job training on human capital
- Mark Thoma sends us to : Are Economists in Denial About What's Driving the Inequality Trainwreck?
- : How Trump Bungled the Deal of a Lifetime
- : “Great and mighty things which thou knowest not” [?]
- : China: Surviving the Camps
- : The Five Scenarios Now Facing the Federal Reserve
- : "All the rotating metal balls fitted to made-in-China ball pens have to be imported from Germany, Switzerland or Japan..."
