Links for the Week of July 24, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- Ari Berkowitz: Is Your Nervous System a Democracy or a Dictatorship?
- : The Forgotten State
- (2013): Other Austerity Bloopers
- Noah Smith: "In macroeconomics, falsified theories never die, and their proponents often don't acknowledge empirical failures..."_
Most-Recent Links:
- Loren Adler and Paul B. Ginsburg: Obamacare Premiums Are Lower Than You Think
- David Zilberman: Agricultural economics as behavioral economics
- Elon Musk: Master Plan, Part Deux
- William G. Bowen and Michael S. McPherson: The student loan debt crisis is overblown. The real problem is college completion rates
John Haas: "First federal regulations of business was Miss. steamboats (I think)..."
Lucy P. Marcus: The British Leadership Disease
- Josh Marshall: Trump & Putin. Yes, It's Really a Thing:
- Franklin Foer: "Let's review the question of Russian intelligence's involvement in these leaks, which seems controversial to some..."
Most-Recent Storified:
MOAR Must-Reads:
- : The Growing Dependence of Britain on Trade During the Industrial Revolution
- : Trump Happened Because Conservatism Failed
- Danny Blanchflower: "UK Headed to Recession..."
- (2008): The Optimistic Thought Experiment
- Charles Feinstein (1998): Pessimism Perpetuated: Real Wages and the Standard of Living in Britain during and after the Industrial Revolution
- : The State of Applied Econometrics--Causality and Policy Evaluation
- : Deserting the Battle for Britain
- : Technological change and Future Labor Demand
- : A Spanner in the Works: An Update to the World Economic Outlook
- : "As the world becomes flat, talent, entrepreneurship, and VC $ become more concentrated..."
- : Bigger Is Not Better: Proposed Insurer Mergers Are Likely to Harm Consumers and Taxpayers
- : Estimating Local Fiscal Multipliers
- : Why the Fed Can't and Shouldn't Raise Interest Rates
- : Does the Technological Content of Government Demand Matter for Private R&D?
- : Needed: A Contingency Plan for Secular Stagnation
- : The Downside of Outrageous
- : A very fishy anti-anti-Trump argument
- : The Permanent Effects of Fiscal Consolidations
- : Cross-Sectional Patterns of Mortgage Debt during the Housing Boom: Evidence and Implications
- : Disruptive Change in the Taxi Business: The Case of Uber
MOAR Links:
- Patrick Iber: "This election has helped me understand structures of feeling in the 1930s, but I'm ready to be done now thanks..."
- BofAML: "A record 44% of investors think global fiscal policy is too restrictive..."
- The Cottage Restaurant
- Catherine Rampell: "Ivanka said father found people jobs after seeing news stories of their hardship. Have beneficiaries come forward?"
- Catherine Rampell: "Ivanka's descriptions of her father's views of/policies related to working women don't match what he's actually said..."
- Matthew Yglesias: This week we saw that the Republican Party — not just Trump — is the problem
- Vox: Fact check: Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention
- J. Bradford DeLong: The Scary Debate Over Secular Stagnation:
- Jeffrey Goldberg: The Republican Party's Hollow Men
- : Expense Policies Are a Woman’s Problem
- : The Republican Party Has Become the Party of Hate
- : A 21st Century View of the Role of Government
- : Several Portions of Donald Trump Jr.'s Convention Speech Were Hand-Me-Downs From His Speechwriter: "Jon Lovett.... 'No, it’s not standard practice for a speechwriter to copy his favorite lines from his own columns to pad a speech for a national convention.... This really isn’t that hard...'"
- : "Love loyalty to us..."
- : "Cruz is tainted by the fact that he ran around for six months calling Trump 'terrific', saying he 'speaks the truth'..."
- : "I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father... not a servile puppy dog..."
- : "I applaud the 5th Circuit for blocking Texas's voter ID law—one of the most restrictive in America. Let's make voting easier, not harder"
- : Donald Trump: Dominance and Humiliation, No Middle Ground: "I've been praised in recent months for having some handle on the Trump phenomenon. The truth is a little different. Early on I realized that when it came to Trump if I figured out the stupidest possible scenario that could be reconciled with the available facts and went with it, that almost always turned out to be right. The stupider, the righter. So with this rule of thumb in hand, as the empiricist my Dad taught me to be, I just kept following that model and it kept working..."
- : Turkey: Worst. Possible. Result.: "Erdogan has, like fellow strongmen Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez, mastered the art of destroying democracy through having elections, and destroying institutions by creating parallel institutions loyal only to himself. But the economic growth that fueled Erdogan’s support has waned, and Turkey’s chaotic war against terrorists and its own citizens has made people cynical. It could be argued that the only thing really wrong with the AK is its tyrannical, paranoid leader..."
- : "Was it Hillary Clinton’s fault? Was it Melania’s fault? Was there no plagiarism? Yes."
- (1793): Considerations on the Nature of the French Revolution
- : Trump backer speaking at RNC, billed as boss of 100,000, employs zero workers
- : The Fed is Trapped in a Rate Hike Talk Cycle
- : U.S. Said Readying Suits Against Anthem, Aetna Insurer Deals
- : Stop pretending America’s housing boom had nothing to do with lending standards
- : The Rise of the Kludges: "Samuel Arbesman... who trained as [a] computational biologist argues convincingly... that our systems have grown too complex to handle..."
- : To America's Law Enforcement Community: "Every day, you confront danger so it does not find our families.... We recognize it, we respect it, we appreciate it, and we depend on you."
- : In Defense of "Poverty" as a Concept
- : Melania Trump's plagiarism matters because it exposes Donald Trump's profound laziness
- : Which Public Option
- : The toughest question about global trade
- : How the Internet Saved Turkey’s Internet-Hating President
- : Race and Police Shootings: Why Data Sampling Matters
- : Churning over China: Anatomy of a Slowdown
- : The End Of A Republican Party
- : The Draft Of The RNC Speaker List Looks Like It Is Missing Something
- : The story of the train that broke through a building in Paris in 1895
- : Making Conversation
- : Confessions Of A Dishonest Slob: How The Haters Got Trump This Close To The White House
- Investors In Donald Trump's Failed Trump Baja Mexico Resort Speak Out
- Matthew Yglesias: "Trump says Saudi Arabia would collapse in a week if our troops left. In reality, Bush moved them 13 years ago..."
- AP: Illinois Governor Apologizes For Calling Teachers 'Virtually Illiterate'
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