Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Should Reads:

• 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

And Over Here:

• Comment of the Day: Charles Steindel: Olivier Blanchard on Role of DSGE: On the whole, as one would expect, Olivier's exposition was masterful. The rub is, as you say, at the end...
• Must-Read: Dan Diamond: Obamacare
• Wednesday Economic History: Debt Servitude in Late Roman Antiquity
• Must-Read: Olivier Blanchard: Do DSGE Models Have a Future?
• Five Revisions of Its Model That the Fed Should Make or Test
• Must-Read: Ryan Avent: Absence of Evidence: The Fed Rethinking One Thing too Many
• Comment of the Day: Oldster: Liveblogging World War II: August 10, 1945: Post-Nagasaki

Might Like to Read:

• 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
• Richard Wolffe: The GOP tried to sink Obama. Instead, the party imploded

Perhaps Worth Reading...