Links for the Week of April 24, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- Why is U.S. labor market fluidity drying up? :
- Adjusting to Economic Shocks Tougher :
- Profits in Finance :
- In Hamilton’s Debt :
- Ford hedges to deal with disruption :
Most-Recent Links:
- How Did Paul Krugman Get It so Wrong? (2011):
- Credit “Crisis” Looks More Like Market Choice (2008):
- How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? (2009):
- It’s time to junk 401(k)s and IRAs and have Social Security finance our whole retirements :
- Finished #reading: The Shifts and the Shocks, by Martin Wolf :
- "If 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson' hadn't been such a flop... none of this would be happening." :
MOAR Must-Reads:
- Keynes passed away 70 years ago today--his copyright follows :
- Policy Recommendations and Wishful Thinking :
- America Isn't Going Broke :
- Sarandonizing Economics :
- Choosing Useless Titles :
- The Challenges of Updating the Contours of the World Economy (2014):
- Robber-Baron Recessions (Competition Policy) :
- Robber-Baron Recessions (Investment) :
MOAR Links:
- Here's the nerdiest reason for cheering Andrew Jackson's removal from the $20 bill :
- Easy Money Is Like Insulin :
- Economic rents are rising, and it matters who receives them :
- Kaufman Broadcast Studio
- Why I Blew the Whistle on the SEC's Investigation of Goldman Sachs :
- Why Mass Incarceration Doesn’t Pay :
- The strange silence about Hillarymania: Clinton fires up voters more than Bernie does, so why is no one talking about it? :
- China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience: 9780801483271 :
- The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World: 9780691090108 :
- The Protestant Ethic and the Language of Austerity :
- The Poverty of Philosophy
- Living Standards in the Past: New Perspectives on Well-Being in Asia and Europe :
- Similarity in Difference: Marriage in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 :
- Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age :
- Axel Leijonhufvud: The Road not Taken :
- Six Colors :
- Why the Great Divide Is Growing Between Affordable and Expensive U.S. Cities :
- Hey, Berniacs: I Learned to Love Hillary and So Can You :
- Thinking about The Great Leap Forward :
- Hilariously bad phone number web forms :
- Economic Report of the President 2016 :
- Reducing Long-Term Unemployment: Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good :
- Hysteresis in a New Keynesian Model :
- Mikhail Golosov
- De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae :
- Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa: Unsung Water-Man :
- How Amazon plans to avoid making a profit this holiday season :
- Obamacare Has Halted the Expansion of the Gap Between the Haves and Have-Nots in Health Insurance :
- The declining impact of U.S. income taxes on wealth inequality (2015):
- “Does Regression Produce Representative Estimates of Causal Effects?,” P. Aronow & C. Samii (2016) :
- Rise Of The Trollbot :
- Enochian :
- His most potent art: the library of John Dee :
- The forgotten 1979-1982 recession that irrevocably damaged the American economy :
- ASCII / Boing Boing