Procrastinating on September 19, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:
- Gary Burtless: This Pessimistic Conclusion Does Not Correspond with Other Indicators: This pessimistic conclusion... does not correspond with other indicators....
- Project Syndicate: Untruth and Consequences: In every corner of the world, governments are failing...
- Manu Saadia: The Enduring Lessons of “Star Trek”: There are two kinds of science fiction... us[ing] the trappings of the future to explore the present...
- Roger Farmer (2014): Real Business Cycle Theory and the High School Olympics: [Prescott's] argument was that business cycles... are caused by the substitution of labor effort of households between times of plenty and times of famine...
- Mauro Boianovsky: Knut Wicksell, Secular Stagnation, and the Negative Natural Rate of Interest: The notion of secular stagnation is consistent with... [Knut Wicksell's] hypotheses of diminishing returns to technical progress and to capital accumulation alike....
- Joe Gagnon: Negative Interest Rates: A Useful But Limited Tool: The disadvantages of paper currency are not so large as to allow for unlimited negative interest rates....
- Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan (2010): Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards: Outsourcing of labor services grew substantially during the 1980s and 1990s....
- Nick Bunker: Weekend reading: “the indispensable U.S. corporate income tax” edition - Equitable Growth
- Musings on "Just Deserts" and the Opening of Plato's Republic - Equitable Growth
Should Reads:
- Cognitive Bias Codex Cheat Sheet
- Glen M. MacDonald et al.: Prolonged California aridity linked to climate warming and Pacific sea surface temperature:
- Jason Furman: Beyond Antitrust: The Role of Competition Policy in Promoting Inclusive Growth
- Branko Milanovic: The downside of upward mobility
- John B. Shoven: Kenneth Arrow Contributions to Economics
And Over Here:
- Links for the Week of September 18, 2016
- Lievblogging the Cold War: September 19, 1946: Harry S. Truman
- Liveblogging the American Revolution: September 18, 1778: TD
- Monday Smackdown: Why Don't the Editors of the New York Times Make David Brooks at Least Phone It in?
- Today's Trump Talking Point: Is Trump in Any Sense a Normal Person, or Candidate? No.
- Live from Trumpland: Veiled calls for the assassination of the opposing party's candidate are not, typically, part of American politics
- Monday Smackdown: Yet Another Washington Post Edition--This Time It's Katie Zezima
- Must-Read: Arindrajit Dube and Ethan Kaplan (2010): Does Outsourcing Reduce Wages in the Low-Wage Service Occupations? Evidence from Janitors and Guards
- Must-Read: Joe Gagnon: Negative Interest Rates: A Useful But Limited Tool
- [Must-Read: Mauro Boianovsky][]: Knut Wicksell, Secular Stagnation, and the Negative Natural Rate of Interest
- Must-Read: Roger Farmer (2014): Real Business Cycle Theory and the High School Olympics
- Must-Read: Manu Saadia: The Enduring Lessons of “Star Trek”
- Must-Read: Gary Burtless: This Pessimistic Conclusion Does Not Correspond with Other Indicators
- Comment of the Day: Altoid: Immigration
- Weekend Reading: Ada Palmer (2012): Machiavelli I
- Liveblogging the Cold War: September 17, 1946: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Liveblogging World War I: September 16, 1916: Hindenburg Line
- Liveblogging Postwar: September 15, 1946: Letter from Harry S. Truman to Bess W. Truman
- Liveblogging the Cold War: September 14, 1946: Franco-Vietnam Modus Vivendi
- Today's Trump Talking Point: "Health"?!
- For the Weekend...: Doctor Who: Vincent van Gogh Visits the Gallery
- Musings on "Just Deserts" and the Opening of Plato's Republic
- Live from the Brookings Institutions: In the United States today, the cost of 365 x 2000 = 730,000 calories of edible corn
- Weekend Reading: Ta-Nehisi Coates: Why the Media Didn't Bother to Verify if Hillary Clinton's Remark About Half of Donald Trump's Supporters Being 'Deplorable' Was True
- Today's Trump Talking Point: There Is No Trump Economic Plan
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