Links for the Week of August 14, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- David Kamin: Taxing Capital: Paths to a Fairer and Broader U.S. Tax System
- Simon Wren-Lewis: A Divided Nation
- Income Inequality in the United States in Cross-National Perspective: Redistribution Revisited (2015):
- Doug Jones (2015): The Patriarchal Age: The time of... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob... the Patriarchal Age.... back to the early third millennium...
Most-Recent Links:
- Daniel Wegner: Trump Showed Investors "Rosier" Numbers For His DC Hotel, Testimony Shows: A Trump financial analyst testified that a Trump company kept an internal set of numbers. “And then there are other projections where, you know, we’re pitching to a lender or an equity source, where it’s rosier,” the analyst said in a deposition obtained by BuzzFeed News...
- BI Intelligence: Adidas will open an automated, robot-staffed factory next year in Atlanta... where shoes will be produced entirely by robots.... The company outlined how the factory, dubbed the Speedfactory, will allow the company to manufacture shoes faster while bringing that production closer to US consumers..."
MOAR Must-Reads:
- Noam N. Levey: In Louisiana, Rush to Sign Up for ObamaCare Highlights a 'Long Overdue' Demand for Health Insurance
- Eurointelligence: Economics Profession Doubling Down
- Kevin O'Rourke: Brexit Backlash Has Been a Long Time Coming
- Paul Krugman: No Right Turn
- Lawrence Summers: The Progressive Case for Pro-Growth Policies
- Paul Krugman:: Prudential Macro Policy: Monetary
- Barry Ritholtz: Let's Put the Lehman Bailout Debate to Rest
- Ben Bernanke: The Fed’s Shifting Perspective
- Donald Trump (2012): Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again
- Nicholas Crafts: Brexit: Lessons from History
- Paul Krugman:: Prudential Macro Policy: Fiscal
- Aaron Carroll: Helpless to Prevent Cancer? Actually, Quite a Bit Is in Your Control
- Paul Krugman: Murky Macroeconomics
- Ryan Avent: Absence of Evidence: The Fed Rethinking One Thing too Many
- Olivier Blanchard: Do DSGE Models Have a Future?
- Obamacare :
- Nikola Koepka and Joerg Baten (2005): "The biological standard of living in Europe during the last two millennia"
- S. Dorn and M. Buettgens: The Cost to States of Not Expanding Medicaid
- Paul Krugman: The State of Macro Is Sad
- Tyler Cowen: The Roots of Trump Support
- Josh Brown: Reaction: Jesse Livermore--Boy Plunger
- Storify: I Think Tyler Cowen Is Confused About Social Choice and Investment-Spending Hurdle Rates: Lower than 2%: That's What the Social-Choice Calculus Produces, for Both Public Infrastructure and Private Capital
- Barry Eichengreen: Airing the IMF’s Dirty Laundry
- Consumer Spending and the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008 (2011):
MOAR Links:
- Gabriel Debenedetti: Happy Sunday: Here's a reminder that Team Trump still has no official answer on Melania's immigration story. When did she come? What visa?
- Jonathan Cohn: For America’s poor, life expectancy statistics resemble those in developing countries
- Scott Lemieux: Note: American Presidential Elections Not Determined By Republican Primary Voters: Once Americans find out about Hillary Clinton’s all-quinoa diet, it will be Trump in a landslide..."
- D.R. Tucker: America Coming Together: In the name of stopping Donald Trump, will Mitt Romney formally endorse Hillary Clinton?
- Wendell Potter: The Insurance Empire Strikes Back: "Read between the lines: Industry's message is clear that obstruction of carrier mergers will mean a grim future for Obamacare's exchanges..."
- Paulo Mauro: Growth and debt-to-GDP ratios
- Rema Hanna
- Tommy Stubbington: Carney’s Great Cash Giveaway: Will the Bank of England succeed in rebooting Britain’s flagging post-Brexit economy?
- Jared Bernstein: What’s slowing growth? Sorry, conservatives: It’s not the size of governments
- Alice Chen et al.: Why Is Infant Mortality Higher in the United States Than in Europe?
- McKay Coppins: The Anxiety Of Being Marco Rubio
- Sarah Ellison: Exclusive: Inside the Fox News Bunker
- B.D. Summers et al.: Changes in Utilization and Health Among Low-Income Adults After Medicaid Expansion or Expanded Private Insurance
- Jon Brodkin: Google Fiber re-thinks plans as it considers wireless alternative
- Jonathan Gitlin: Running hot and cold with the 2017 Chevrolet Volt
- Rana Foroohar: Uberisation and the dangers of neo-serfdom
- Marc Sobel: @delong Claims He Invented Sub-Turing Evocation
- Scott Lemieux: Today in the Neoliberalism of the Neoliberal Barack Obama
- Izabella Kaminska: Bitfinex and a 36 per cent charge from the school of life
- Emily Breza, Supreet Kaur, and Yogita Shamdasani: The Morale Effects of Pay Inequality
- Jason P. Steed: I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking"...
- Tucker Eskew: What are the lessons of the Khan dustup for political pros and anti-Trump forces? Two big ones...
- Austin Frakt: Worthwhile California Initiative
- CPI-U, 1982-84=100
- Moritz Schularick and Solomos Solomou (2011): Tariffs and economic growth in the first era of globalization
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Holy Grail of energy policy in sight as battery technology smashes the old order
- Geoffrey Harcourt (1969): Some Cambridge Controversies in the Theory of Capital
- Ottoman Taverna
- Jon Favreau: How the Republican Party Became a Failed State
- Chris Arnade: "Spent morning with McDonald's old man group in Huntington WV. Most raised in rural coal country (Mingo county)..."
- Chris Lee: Hydrogen molecule falls to quantum computer: Quantum computer calculates ground state of hydrogen with just two qubits
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1513): Letter to Vettori
- Cheaply Manufacturing Extended Trollage via Sub-Turing Evocations: Threat or Menace? Weblogging (2013)
- 140 Words: Sub-Turing Evocations
- Erasmus, Tolkien, Clark Kerr, and Californium (2009)
- Robert Scott (2011): Heading South: U.S.-Mexico Trade and Job Displacement after NAFTA
- Per Kurowski: 22 reasons for why I believe the bank regulators in the Basel Committee are complete idiots… or something worse
- Anton Howes: How Innovation Accelerated in Britain 1651-1851:
- Josh Bivens: Why is recovery taking so long—and who’s to blame?
- Yuliya Demyanyk et al.: Does Fiscal Stimulus Work when Recessions Are Caused by Too Much Private Debt?: