Links for the Week of January 31, 2016
Latest Must-Reads:
- Philosophy and the practice of Bayesian statistics (2011):
- 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 :
- Profits of Doom (2003):
- 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------ :
- Machinery and Modern Industry (1867):
- "‘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 :
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- "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 :
- The Britons Are too Stupid to Even Make Good Slaves (54 BC):
- 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..." :