Procrastinating on September 16, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:
- Paul Romer: The Trouble with Macroeconomics: In the last three decades, the methods and conclusions of macroeconomics have deteriorated...
- Ideology & Human Development: My overall point can be summarised thus.... :
- Bill Galston: Hard Truths for Appalachian Coal Country: Nearly all the reduction in mining employment occurred before the federal government even began trying to reduce the environmental impact of fossil fuels...
- Noah Smith: The New Heavyweight Macro Critics: [Paul] Romer's harshest zinger... is this:
- The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk: The base sample is a nationally representative panel containing 10 percent of all U.S. males from 1978 to 2010... :
- Noah Smith: To tell the story...:
- Nick Bunker: The private sector offers up new U.S. home mortgage options - Equitable Growth
- Brookings Productivity Festival: DeLong Edited Transcript (September 9, 2016) - Equitable Growth
- Very Brief Musings on Democracy - Equitable Growth
- Bridget Ansel: Are unpredictable schedules harming U.S. workers’ health? - Equitable Growth
Should Reads:
- New Labour’s Economic Illiteracy Exacts a Terrible Price (2015):
- Danilo Trisi: Safety Net Cut Poverty Nearly in Half Last Year
- Barry Eichengreen: Brexit and the Pound in Your Pocket
- Issi Romem: Can U.S. Cities Compensate for Curbing Sprawl by Growing Denser?
- Mike Konczal: The "new liberal economics" is the key to understanding Hillary Clinton's policies
- Dan Gross: How to Bring Back Manufacturing Jobs: America has a long-running crisis in manufacturing employment....
- Dean Baker: Esther George and Financial Speculation
- Matthew Yglesias: 5 ways the census income report misleads us about the real state of the economy
- Pranab Bardhan: Rise Of Right-Wing Populism: A Manifesto For The Moderate Left
And Over Here:
- Must-Read: Noah Smith: To tell the story...
- Must-Read: Fatih Guvenen et al.: The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk
- Comment of the Day: Scott P.: Cuba Under the Castro Brothers
- Comment of the Day: Maynard Handley: Live from America
- Comment of the Day: LosGatosCA: bin Laden
- Files Related to the Hutchins-Brookings Productivity Festival
- Brookings Productivity Festival: DeLong Edited Transcript (September 9, 2016)
- Live from DuPont Circle: Washington DC looks like it might actually be habitable today...
- Noah Smith: The New Heavyweight Macro Critics
- Talking Points for Fox News Business This Afternoon (September 15, 2016: 2 PM)...
- Very Brief Musings on Democracy
- Must-Read: Bill Galston: Hard Truths for Appalachian Coal Country
- "Mr. Lucky": From the Fifth Millennium BCE: Hoisted from Others' Archives from Eight Years Ago
- Comment of the Day: Ryan: bin Laden
- Must-Read: Pseudoerasmus: Ideology & Human Development
- Outline of: Joel Mokyr: A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
- Must-Read: Paul Romer: The Trouble with Macroeconomics
Might Like to Read:
- (2015): Why Am I Endorsing Hillary Rodham Clinton for President in 2016?
- Jason Kottke: The internet of trees: how trees talk to each other underground
- Ian Millhiser: Trump’s potential SCOTUS appointee thinks America took a wrong turn when women got the vote: Peter Thiel
- John Cole: We Need This Guy in the Senate: Jason Kander
Perhaps Worth Reading...