Procrastinating on February 22, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth--The Equitablog:
- No: We can't wave a magic demand wand now and get the recovery we threw away in 2009
- Weekend Reading: H.G. Wells: On Becoming a Socialist
- Ed Luce says some very nice things about Steve Cohen's and my forthcoming "Concrete Economics"
- The melting-away of North Atlantic social democracy
- What to teach the undergraduates about business cycles* : A College Degree Is Worth (Disproportionately) Less If You Are Raised Poor
- Abundance and the Direction of Technological Growth :
- Your Landlord Is a Drag on Growth :
- Ronnie O'Sullivan & the Limits of Incentives :
- Takahashi Korekiyo and Fiscal Stimulus in Japan in the 1930s :
- Central bankers on the defensive as weird policy becomes even weirder :
- The Ghost of Takahashi Haunts Abenomics
- Draghi Wants the Cake, and Eat It :
- Improving Conventional Unconventional Policy :
- Schooling and Balanced Growth :
- Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk
- The Habakkuk Hypothesis :
- Technological Unemployment :
- The Most Important Apple Executive You’ve Never Heard Of :
And Over Here:
- Live from the Palmetto State: The sorcerers' apprentices in the Republican Establishment who misdrew their pentagram and so amplified the Curse of Goldwater now pin their hopes on Marco the Callow: McKay Coppins: Republicans Rush to Crown Marco Rubio the Anti-Trump Standard Bearer
- Live from the Gehenna the Republicans Have Made for Themselves: Nino Scalia
- Weekend Reading: H.G. Wells: On Becoming a Socialist
- Ed Luce Says Some Very Nice Things About Steve Cohen's and My Forthcoming "Concrete Economics"
- The Melting-Away of North Atlantic Social Democracy
- Monday Smackdown II: Sady Doyle Smacks Down Doug Henwood
- Monday Smackdown I/Hoisted: Stanley Fish's Antimoral Philosophy
- Must-Read: Brad Hershbein: A College Degree Is Worth (Disproportionately) Less If You Are Raised Poor
- Must-Read: Cf. the debate about North Atlantic technological development in the nineteenth century started by the most amazingly-named Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk, or, indeed Robert Allen's The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective...
- Links for the Week of February 21, 2016
- Must-Read: Noah Smith: Your Landlord Is a Drag on Growth
- From the Archives: Five Years Ago
- What to Teach the Undergraduates About Business Cycles?
- Must-Read: Stumbling and Mumbling: Ronnie O'Sullivan & the Limits of Incentives
- Weekend Reading: Irin Carmon: Reviewing ‘The Firebrand and the First Lady,’ by Patricia Bell-Scott
- No: We Can't Wave a Magic Demand Wand Now and Get the Recovery We Threw Away in 2009
- Comment of the Day: Robert Waldmann: 'I think the dialogue is very good and Davies makes a good case for low interest rates...
- Weekend Reading: Jeff Toobin: Nino Scalia: Looking Back
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