Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:

• Beating America’s Health-Care Monopolists: Fresh at Project Syndicate - Equitable Growth
• The Stakes of the Helicopter Money Debate: A Primer - Equitable Growth
• Musings on the Science of "Scaling": Blum Center U.C. Berkeley - Equitable Growth
• Nick Bunker: Underemployment for recent U.S. college graduates - Equitable Growth
• Bridget Ansel: All work and no pay for many women around the globe - Equitable Growth Nick Bunker: What’s the optimal tax for capital income? - Equitable Growth
• Blum Center: The Science of Scaling: Building Evidence to Advance Anti-Poverty Innovations: September 26 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm, 100 Blum Hall, Haviland Road, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States The Development Impact Lab (DIL), headquartered at UC Berkeley and funded by USAID...
• Thomas Baekdal: What Killed The Newspapers? Google Or Facebook? Or...?: Google didn't actually kill the newspaper advertising market...
• Noah Smith: Economics Has a Major Blind Spot: Economists often don’t take politics into account. As a result, econ models leave out important pieces, and the advice of economists often falls on deaf ears or is seen as impractical...
• Dani Rodrik: Put Globalization to Work for Democracies: Look closely at the economies that converged with richer counterparts — Japan, South Korea, China — and you see that each engaged globally in a selective, strategic manner...
• Hans-Werner Sinn: Secular Stagnation or Self-Inflicted Malaise?: Some economists believe that this is evidence of “secular stagnation”....
• Scott Sumner: Who Is Peter Navarro?: Tyler Cowen linked to a paper by Peter Navarro.... It's a complete mess...
• Emmanuel Saez and Stefanie Stantcheva: A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation: We derive formulas for optimal linear and nonlinear capital income taxation...