Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Should Reads:

• Annalee Newitz: [14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery][]: A glimpse of the last people on Earth to colonize a continent without humans...
• Art Goldhammer: What Would Alexis de Tocqueville Have Made of the 2016 US Presidential Election?: Feverish thoughts from a moment of “extreme peril”...
• Drew Fudenberg et al.: [Active Learning with Misspecified Beliefs][]
• Bécquer Seguín: The Spanish-Speaking William F. Buckley
• Dan Davies: The really interesting question is: "how much damage is going to be done by DBK limping along as an undercapitalised hulk?"
• Ulrike Malmendier: Review of Peter Bang: "The Roman bazaar: A comparative study of trade and markets in a tributary empire"
• Marcus Noland: Scoring the Trump Trade Plan: Magical Thinking: Who knew Donald Trump was a fan of Latin American fiction?...
• Duncan Weldon: Negative yields, the euthanasia of the rentier & political economy
• Duncan Weldon: Whatever happened to deficit bias?
• John Judis: Deep Stories: [Arlie Russell] Hochschild traces the origins of the deep story to two specific historical moments that she believes left many white Americans in the South in a state of mourning...

[14,000-year-old campsite in Argentina adds to an archaeological mystery: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/09/14000-year-old-campsite-in-argentina-adds-to-an-archaeological-mystery/

And Over Here:

: Live from the Republicans' Self-Made Gehenna: It is Jeb Bush who looks to be: the biggest moron: : _Live from Trumpland: Another unhinged rabid Hillary-hater for Hillary_: Dorothy Rabinovitz: Hillary-Hatred Derangement Syndrome *: Must-Read: Dan Davies: On Deutsche Bank : Must-Read: Mike Konczal: The "new liberal economics" is the key to understanding Hillary Clinton's policies : Comment of the Day: Robert Waldmann: Physical Chemistry : Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna: Storify: Jack Shafer Has Little If Any Clue What an "Open Inquiry" Is : Live from the Court of Charles II Stuart: Sarah Jennings[?] on Louise de Kérouaille : Live from the Journamalists' Self-Made Gehenna: So deep in the tank that they do not remember that they are supposed to not be in the tank. I don't think that "generally-reputable" means what you think it means: Josh Kraushaar: @HotLineJosh : Must-Read: Economic anxiety!: John Judis: Deep Stories : Weekend Reading: John Maynard Keynes (1937): The General Theory of Employment : Must-Read: Simon Wren-Lewis: A General Theory of Austerity, Cynicism and Opportunism : Must-Read: Is there anybody who can teach all of Hyman Minsky while standing on one foot? Yes: one person can: John Maynard Keynes (1936 : Must-Read: John Maynard Keynes (1937): The General Theory of Employment : Must-Read: David Glasner: Price Stickiness a Symptom Not a Cause *: Must-Read: John Maynard Keynes (1936): The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, Chapter 13

Might Like to Read:

• Jason Kottke: Trump paid the stereotype tax in the first debate
• Ezra Klein: The press thought Trump’s first 30 minutes were his best. They were his worst: The press needs to do its job, not the voters’ job.
• Ezra Klein: The first debate featured an unprepared man repeatedly shouting over a highly prepared woman: The coherence gap between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was devastating
• Maria Popova: Don’t Heed the Haters: Albert Einstein’s Wonderful Letter of Support to Marie Curie in the Midst of Scandal: "If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated..."
• Michael Arnovitz: Another First

Perhaps Worth Reading...