Links for the week of October 23, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- Simon Wren-Lewis: Neoliberalism and Austerity: "Austerity could [not] have happened on the scale that it did without this dominance of this neoliberal ethos...
- Paul Krugman: Debt, Diversion, Distraction: "There was a time... when deficit scolds were actively dangerous...
- Daniel Boffey: Brexit: leading banks set to pull out of UK early next year: Anthony Browne, head of the British Bankers’ Association, warns that major lenders are poised to hit relocate button
- Brahman: [A Few Thoughts on Finance and BREXIT...][]: "Trouble is that even @MarkFieldMP MP for the City can't be bothered to fight to stay within the Single Market...
Most-Recent Links:
- Catherine Caruso: Scientists "Switch Off" Self-Control Using Brain Stimulation: A clever experiment pinpoints the brain region involved in taking the perspective of our future selves or that of others
- Sean M. Carroll and Charles T. Sebens: Many Worlds, the Born Rule, and Self-Locating Uncertainty
- W. H. Zurek (1981): Pointer basis of quantum apparatus: Into what mixture does the wave packet collapse?
MOAR Must-Reads:
- Edward L. Glaeser, Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto, and Andrei Shleifer: Securing Property Rights: "A central challenge in securing property rights is the subversion of justice...
- Elizabeth Catte: There Is No Neutral There: "Historically, cultural elites — writers, academics, politicians, journalists, and so on...
- Brown University Janus Forum: Inequality: Is America Becoming a Two-Tiered Society?: Monday, October 17 @ 5:30pm :: Brown Faculty Club Hunter Room...
- Mohamed A. El-Erian: Toxic Politics Versus Better Economics: "Advanced-country politicians are locked in bizarre, often toxic, conflicts...
- Jason Furman: Five Fiscal Policy Principles: "Nowhere is... recovery complete...
- Patrick Iber: How Academics Can Use Twitter: "Two of the most important debates we have been having in academe in the last few years center on the issues of contingent labor and public engagement...
- Barry Ritholtz: This Needs Saying. Helping Retirement Savers Isn't Like Slavery: I happened to overhear a broker from one of the country’s largest firms try to explain to his client why the U.S. Department of Labor’s new fiduciary rule was so terrible...
- Thomas E. Patterson: Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: "During... 2015, major news outlets covered Donald Trump in a way that was unusual given his low initial polling numbers...
- Antonio Fatas: The Stock Market Looks Cheap: "I constructed the difference between RF - E/P...
- Vitor Gaspar, Maurice Obstfeld, Ratna Sahay, et al.: Macroeconomic Management When Policy Space Is Constrained: A Comprehensive, Consistent, and Coordinated Approach to Economic Policy: "Global output remains below potential, unemployment above its natural rate, and inflation below target...
- : Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World?: "By the eighteenth century, Europeans dominated the military technology of gunpowder weapons...
- : Dumb Luck in Historical Development: "Philip Hoffman’s Why Did Europe Conquer the World?...
- Dani Rodrik: A War of Ideas, Not of Interests: "Mike Konczal has an interesting piece...
- Noah Smith: Do Economists Have Physics Envy?: "Philip Mirowski... is not too happy with my post. In a recent interview, he explains why...
- Cardiff Garcia: Bengt Holmstrom: Money Markets and Opacity: "Stock markets are about price discovery for the purpose of allocating risk efficiently...
MOAR Links:
- Brad Setser: China: Too Much Investment, But Also Way Too Much Savings
- James Kwak: Economic Anxiety and the Limits of Data Journalism
- David Levine et al.: Quality of Outpatient Care Delivered to US Adults, 2002-2013
- kstreet607: Behind Michelle Obama’s heartfelt speech: 8 years of sexist and racist attacks
- David Roberts: The Left vs. a Carbon Tax
- The Rude One: "When you try to 'figure out' what drives Trump supporters... you are insulting... millions of people in Trump country who grew up in similar circumstances and decided that being a racist, sexist, Islamophobic, anti-immigrant, and conspiracy-theory-loving jerk is wrong..."
- Tim Miller: Donald Trump Is on a Presidential Death March We’ve Never Seen Before
- Jessica Valenti: The silver lining of Trump's misogyny? More men are decrying his ways
- IMF: Spotlight on Today's Global Challenges: Fiscal Policy in the New Normal
- Alan B. Krueger: Where Have All the Workers Gone?
- Sopan Deb: On Twitter: "I did an, 'I'm sorry, what?' when I read this part of this WSJ editorial of Trump and the 'rigged election..." http://on.wsj.com/2dKxYEy
- Jamelle Bouie: On Twitter: "Yes, may we all feel pity for the powerful billionaire backing a white nationalist demagogue. https://t.co/bfPCbfVfrt
- Bryan Allegretto: What Did The Storm Tell Us About Winter?
- Olivier Blanchard: Discussion of Brad DeLong: “Did Macroeconomic Policy Play a Different Role in the (Post-2009) Recovery?”
- Mark Thoma: Economist's View: Links for 10-20-16
- T. Greer: Thucydides Roundtable, Book I: An introduction
- Thomas E. Patterson: Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: "During... 2015, major news outlets covered Donald Trump in a way that was unusual given his low initial polling numbers...
- dcg2: Chris Wallace did everything he could to help Trump... and still couldn't
- Oded Galor and Ömer Özak: American Economic Association
- Justin Fox: No, U.S. Manufacturing Isn't Really Booming
- Charles I. Jones and Peter J. Klenow: Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time
- Claudia Sahm and Jason Sockin: "Limited Attention" and Inflation Expectations of Households
- Andrew Revkin: An Anthropocene Journey
