Links for the Week of April 17, 2016
Latest Must-Reads:
- (2013): Friedman and the Austrians
- : The Real Motivation of the Pain Caucus
- : Barack Obama: One of the Most Consequential Presidents
- : Breaking the Oil Spell: The Path to Diversification
Latest Links:
- (2010) Policy Proposals to Boost Employment in Obama's 2010 State of the Union Address
- (2010) Barack
Herbert HooverGrover Cleveland Obama? - The Vashon Island Coffee Roasterie
- (1936): Mr. Keynes on the Causes of Unemployment
- Jacob Viner (1933): Balanced Deflation, Inflation, or More Deflation
- : Thinking Outside the Cable Box: How More Competition Gets You a Better Deal
MOAR Must-Reads:
- : The White House Acknowledges: The U.S. Has a Concentration Problem; President Obama Launches New Pro-Competition Initiative
- : How concerned should we be about business investment and productivity growth? - Equitable Growth
- : Merrick Garland on Efficiencies
- : Corporate Profits Near Record Highs Is a Problem
- : The US Phillips Curve: Back to the 60s?
- : The Near-Death of Liberal Capitalism: Perceptions from the Weber to the Polanyi Brothers
- : Fed’s New Bank Critic Keeps Heat On
- : Time To Increase Interest Rates!
- : Benefits of Welfare Payments
- : Nafta May Have Saved Many Autoworkers’ Jobs
- : Listen to the Victims of the Free Market
- : Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
- : How American Cities Can Make America Great Again
- : Supply-Side Policies in the Depression: Evidence from France
- : Middle-Aged White Death Trends: All About Women in the South
- : Event: Macroeconomic Policy Options for the World Today
- : Can Central Banks Make Three Major Mistakes in a Row and Stay Independent?
- : The Middle-Class Squeeze
- : The Most Important 2016 Issue You Don’t Know About
- : Raj Chetty et al.'s Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live
- : 101ism in Action: Minimum Wage Edition
MOAR Links:
- : This is the worst argument about the national debt you’ll ever find
- : Metlife, Living Wills, and the Necessity of Technocratic Regulators
- : People hate the stock market
- : Time's new cover story about the national debt is bad
- : Which Wage Growth Measure Best Indicates Slack in the Labor Market?
- : San Francisco house prices fall
- : The Tyranny of the Noncompete Clause
- : "#ConcreteEconomics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy is one of the best and most useful books of the year."
- : The Political Economy of Time and ‘Work-Life Conflict’
- : New Study Shows Rich, Poor Have Huge Mortality Gap in U.S.
- : Why economic policy overlooks women
- : Global Inequality and Poverty
- : How to Make the Fed Work Better
- The Future of Weblogging in the Medium Run
- : Why I Love Akira Kurosawa
- Mr. Phillips and His Curve: "What Should the Fed Do?" Weblogging
- (2013): How influential was the Rogoff-Reinhart study warning that high debt kills growth? - Quartz
- : A kink in the Phillips curve
- On the Proper Size of the Public Sector and the Level of Public Debt in the Twenty-First Century
- The Macroeconomic Outlook as of December 1992
- : Moving to the Innovation Frontier
- : Letters to Atticus
- : Reforming the Federal Reserve to Ensure Accountability, Transparency, and Good Governance
- : Fiscal policy explains the weak recovery: "We already have a simple and conventional story to explain the weak recovery..."
- : Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more: "Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more..."
- : The case for more capital
- : Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
- : What Tools Does the Fed Have Left? Part 1: Negative Interest Rates | : Targeting Longer-Term Interest Rates | Helicopter Money
- : Sanctions for Offshore Havens, Transparency at Home
- : So Just How Much of an Overshoot on Inflation Will the Fed Tolerate?:
- : Busted: The Sad Data Manipulation of Prof Mark Perry
- : The Messy, Very Human Politics of Bill Clinton’s Crime Bill: "The activists who denounce the bill now have much in common with the activists who supported it in 1994."
- “Liquidation” Cycles and the Great Depression
- : What is Wrong With the Parrott, Ranieri, Sperling, Zandi and Zigas Reform Proposal? Everything
- (1972): Comments on the Critics
- : Median CEO pay fell in 2015 to "only" $10.8 million
- : Declining Mobility and Restrictions on Land Use
- (1999): Thinking about the Liquidity Trap
- : Liquidity preference, loanable funds, and Niall Ferguson
- On the Proper Size of the Public Sector and the Level of Public Debt in the Twenty-First Century
- : The Bernie/Hillary Twitter wars tell us basically nothing about the real primary
- : Why Are Voters Angry? It’s the 1099 Economy, Stupid
