Links for the Week of August 7, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- John Holbo: Is The Cato Institute a, You Know, Libertarian Think-Tank?
- Brad Setser: Why Is The IMF Pushing Fiscal Consolidation in the Eurozone in 2017?
- Brian Buetler: Reformoconism Suddenly Looks Like Moderate Democratism
Most-Recent Links:
- James Fallows: Someone's Lying About the GOP Platform on Ukraine: "Members of the Republican party’s platform committee are saying that his campaign manager is flat-out lying about having engineered a pro-Russian policy change that would help his former clients. There are two other possibilities... that members of the platform committee have... decided to lie... [or] that all this happened without Manafort’s being aware.... For me, the odds overwhelmingly favor Manafort being involved and then imagining he could bluff his way through a denial, Baghdad Bob-style..."
- Manila Galleon
- Abdel Ibrahim: Why I think Apple Watch 2 will be a big leap
MOAR Must-Reads:
- Joshua Brown: The Paradox of Quant
- Gary Burtless et al.: How Would Investing in Equities Have Affected the Social Security Trust Fund?
- Ricardo Hausmann: Through the Venezuelan Looking Glass
- Jonathan Chait: Trump Proves Obama Hate Was Never About Ideas
- : Sailing Away from Malthus: Intercontinental Trade and European Economic Growth, 1500-1800:
- Paul Romer: Professionalism and the Academic Division of Labor
- Matthew Shapiro: How Economic Shocks Affect Spending
- Economist: A Hire Power
- Nick Bunker: How Many Big Macs will That Minimum Wage Buy?
- Eric Lonergan: Helicopter Money Is Different
- Eric Lonergan: A Brief Reply to Paul Krugman on Policy Equivalence: "Helicopter money is partly useful precisely because it addresses the institutional failure of fiscal policy..."
- Andy Taylor: Failure To Expand Medicaid Adds To Stresses In Southeast Kansas County:
- Nick Rowe: Anti Urban Economics
- : The Key to Raising Business Investment: Keep Pushing the Accelerator
- Gauti Eggertsson and Lawrence Summers: How Secular Stagnation Spreads and How It Can Be Cured
- George Akerlof (2001): Writing the "The Market for 'Lemons'": A Personal Interpretive Essay
MOAR Links:
- David Beckworth: The International Impact of the Fed When the United States is a Banker to the World
- Ann Kim: Would a Public Option Improve Obamacare?
- Nouriel Roubini: Europe’s Brexit Hangover
- Claudia Sahm: Aging and Productivity Growth
- Robin Harding: Japan Launches $45bn Stimulus Package
- Kurt Overmeyer
- Alan Blinder (2000): Monetary Policy at the Zero Lower Bound: Balancing the Risks
- (2000): Journal of Money, Credit and Banking: Monetary Policy in a Low-Inflation Environment
- Caroline McCain: _For This Republican, Never Trump Means “I’m With Her”
- Larry Levitt et al.: How ACA Marketplace Premiums Measure Up to Expectations
- Economist: Secrets and Agents: George Akerlof’s 1970 paper, “The Market for Lemons”, is a foundation stone of information economics. The first in our series on seminal economic ideas...
- Perry Mehrling: Financialization and its Discontents
- Martin Longman: Obama Just Said What Nearly Every Republican is Thinking
- Dan O'Brien: Politics is souring in the democratic world - but can the centre hold?
- Joshua Brown: The Paradox of Quant
- Richard Woolnough: Is QE Unquestionably Supportive for Risk Assets? I Think Not
- Guesstimate
- Jesse Singal: Why Some of the Worst Attacks on Social Science Have Come From Liberals: "Alice Dreger's Galileo’s Middle Finger is about what happens when... science makes a claim that doesn’t fit into an activist community’s accepted worldview..."
- Tierney Sneed: GOP Voters Stage Major Revolt Against Brownback's Kansas Experiment
- Scott Lemieux: Note: American Presidential Elections Not Determined By Republican Primary Voters: "I’m sure Mark Halperin is developing theories about how committing one massive blunder after another is actually a winning approach as I type..."
- Scott Lemieux: Note: American Presidential Elections Not Determined By Republican Primary Voters: "Eeyores are going to Eeyore..."
- Charles Stross: The Iron Law of Development
- Mariana Mazzucato: A strong industrial strategy has many benefits
- Adam Silverman: You May Not Be Interested in Nuclear War, But Nuclear War Is Interested in You
- Karoli Kuns: CNN Commentator Liz Mair Nails Trump: 'His Message Is Being A Loudmouthed Dick'
- John Springford et al.: Brexiting yourself in the foot: Why Britain's eurosceptic regions have most to lose from EU withdrawal
- Martin Sandbu: Helicopter money: if not now, when?
- Ryan Avent: Upside-down economics: Bigger budget deficits in America: the crazy policy or the sane one?
- Chad Stone et al.: A Guide to Statistics on Historical Trends in Income Inequality
- Jessica Tasman-Jones: Eric Lonergan: 'Major break with history': Is Term Funding Scheme Carney's most radical tool?
- Andrew Watt et al.: An economic policy reset is now essential
