Procrastinating on August 17, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:
- Adair Turner: Demystifying Monetary Finance: If the government cuts taxes, increases public expenditure, or distributes money directly to households, and if the central bank creates permanent new money to finance this stimulus, citizens’ nominal wealth will increase...
- Alex Tabarrok: Collective Property in Palo Alto: Kate Downing... [of] Palo Alto... has resigned in protest at its no-growth policies. She writes:
- Sanjeev Gupta et al. (2014): Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality: Fiscal policy is the primary tool for governments to affect income distribution....
- Gavyn Davies: What Caused the Fed’s Dovish Turn?: The change in the Fed’s guidance about “normalisation”... came... [as] the dollar peaked (and equities collapsed) in February/March...
- Justin Fox: High-Tech Manufacturing Isn't Worth Much: These are the world's five largest technology companies, ranked by revenue...
- Ben Friedman (2005): The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth: A persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits...
- Ezra Klein: The Media vs. Donald Trump: There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting...
- Nick Bunker: Why slightly higher inflation might benefit the U.S. economy - Equitable Growth
- Hoisted from the Archives from Fall 2011: Barclays Debate with Robert Barro, Moderated by David Wessel - Equitable Growth
Should Reads:
- Jacob Viner (1933): Balanced Deflation, Inflation, or More Depression
- James D. Hamilton: Why You Should Never Use the Hodrick-Prescott Filter
- Marshall Steinbaum: What Role for Antitrust in the Era of Rising Inequality? The Importance of Power in Supply Chains Edmund W. Kitch et al. (1983): The Fire of Truth: A Remembrance of Law and Economics at Chicago, 1932-1970: The Journal of Law & Economics 26:1 (Apr., 1983), pp. 163-234 http://www.jstor.org/stable/725189
- (1990): In Defense of Henry Simons’ Standing as a Classical Liberal
- (1999): The Triumph of Monetarism?
And Over Here:
- Must-Read: I think the very sharp Ezra Klein gets the general equilibrium effects of access journalism and its cousin, opinions-of-shape-of-earth-differ press coverage, wrong here...: Ezra Klein: The Media vs. Donald Trump
- Live from Trumpland: Ezra Klein: The Media vs. Donald Trump
- Must-Read: Ben Friedman (2005): The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
- Must-Read: Justin Fox: High-Tech Manufacturing Isn't Worth Much
- Live from America's Better Self: I am still on Team Bedwetting, but... John Podesta--the Chair of Hillary for America and the President of the Transition project--announced several top officials who will lead the transition planning over the coming months...
- Live from Trumpland: And now we have Dr. Frankenstein complaining about those who warned that he was creating a monster...: Brian Buetler: Conservatives’ Laughable Effort to Blame Liberals for Trump
- The Wayback Machine: From Ten Years Ago: August 10-August 16, 2006
- Let's Get Even More Depressed About Cuba: Hoisted from the Archives
- LftRSMG: Super-good on how Bret Stephens does not know that he is not only Dr. Frankenstein but the Monster too: Zach Beauchamp: Sean Hannity Called a Columnist an Asshole. What Happened Next Explains Donald Trump
- Must-Read: Gavyn Davies: What Caused the Fed’s Dovish Turn?
- Live from Νεφελοκοκκυγία: Scott Lemieux spots herbal teabaggers in the wild: Scott Lemieux: What's the Matter With Thomas Frank?
- Comment of the Day: Sans Souci: From Dean Acheson: Vyshinsky and Chuikov
- Must-Read: Sanjeev Gupta et al. (2014): Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality
- Must-Read: A most righteous rant on NIMBYism from Alex Tabarrok: Alex Tabarrok: Collective Property in Palo Alto
- Apropos of Helicopter Money: Barclays Debate with Robert Barro, Moderated by David Wessel: Hoisted from the Archives from Fall 2011
- Must-Read: Adair Turner: Demystifying Monetary Finance
- Must-Read: Matthew Kahn: ”Old School” Econ 101 for the New Generation of Economists
Might Like to Read:
- Krell
- Hopewell Culture
- Todd Gitlin: Interrupting Trump’s Strut Is Only a Start
- Annalee Newitz: Why does the Star Trek franchise keep returning to its origins?
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