Links for the Week of September 4, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- : The Case for the Entrepreneurial State: Mariana Mazzucato... contends that, contrary to the claims of GOP presidential hopefuls, the American economy has benefited immensely from government intervention...
- John Quiggin: After Neoliberalism: A Snippet: The failure of neoliberalism.... The greatest challenge is the need to confront rightwing tribalism as a powerful political force in itself, rather than as a source of political support for hard neoliberalism...
Most-Recent Links:
MOAR Must-Reads
- : Issues in the Design of Fiscal Policy Rules: The potential conflict in designing rules between the need to mimic optimal policy...
- Mohamed El-Erian: Jackson Hole Was a Missed Opportunity for a Policy Pivot: Central banks policy tools alone are ill-suited to overcoming the challenges....
- Martin Wolf: Capitalism and Democracy: The Strain Is Showing: Confidence in an enduring marriage between liberal democracy and global capitalism seems unwarranted...
- Charlie Stross: Two Thoughts: The effects [of] universal functional telepathy (lies and all)... on how we handle business...
- Gavyn Davies: Sims Highlights Fiscal Dominance at Jackson Hole: The most far reaching speech at the Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole meeting last week was...
- Larry Summers: Disappointed by What Came Out of Jackson Hole: I had high hopes... billed as a forum that would look at new approaches to the conduct of monetary policy...
- Anna Aizer et al.: Do Low Levels of Blood Lead Reduce Children's Future Test Scores?: Linking preschool blood lead levels with third grade test scores for eight birth cohorts of Rhode Island children born between 1997 and 2005...
- Willem Buiter: EU and China Ought to Use Helicopter Money: Helicopter money is a coordinated monetary and fiscal stimulus...
- (1960): Welfare Economics and Existence of an Equilibrium for a Competitive Economy: A competitive equilibrium is a maximum point of a social welfare function...
- Drew Altman: The ACA Marketplace Problems in Context (and Why They Don’t Mean Obamacare Is ‘Failing’): There absolutely are problems in the marketplaces...
- Art Goldhammer: The Great Paradox: In 2004, Barack Obama catapulted himself into the national limelight by denouncing the bitter antagonism between rival camps and suggesting that we heed “the better angels of our nature”...
MOAR Links:
- Karl Gunnar Persson: Bread and Enlightenment: the quest for price stability and free trade in eighteenth-century Europe: The baker of last resort and his critics...
- John Stoehr: Add "anti-Semite with Egyptian sugar daddy" to Bannon's honorifics...
- David Atkins: Trump Really Is a Racist. He Doesn’t Just Play One on TV
- Laurence Seidman (2014): Stimulus without Debt
- Richard Mayhew: From Silver Spam to Silver Gap — APTC Hacks
- Alexandra Jahn: How predictable is the first ice-free Arctic summer?
- Narayana Kocherlakota: What the Fed Chief's Next Message Should Be
- Alexandra M. de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden: Gender Relations and Economic Development: Hypotheses about the Reversal of Fortune in EurAsia
- Axel Weber (2013): Reconstructing Macroeconomics
- Cameron Okeke: I’m a black UChicago graduate. Safe spaces got me through college
- Penn World Table
- German Lopez: A new poll shows most Republicans appear to regret nominating Donald Trump
- Dara Lind: 9 days, 11 positions: Donald Trump’s spectacular immigration flameout
- Elise Gould: Rising wage inequality continues to be a defining feature of the U.S. labor market
- Paul Krugman: How Complicated Does the Model Have to Be
- Nick Bunker: Retiring in the United States amid low interest rates
- Simon Wren-Lewis: Fiscal rules should target the deficit, not spending
- Shane Greenstein: Ten Open Questions for the Techno-Optimist
- Alicia H. Munnell and Annika Sundén (2003): Death and Dollars: The Role of Gifts and Bequests in America:
- (2001): Bequests: An Historical Perspective:
- Paul Waldman: Why Donald Trump voters are taking his betrayal in stride:
- Nancy LeTourneau: Conway’s Attempt to Create An Alternative Trump Fails
- Cathy O'Neil: How algorithms rule our working lives
- UrsulaV: This Vote Is Legally Binding
- Claire Montialoux: Revisiting the Impact of Head Start
- Laurence Ball et al.: What else can central banks do?
