Links for the Week of November 27, 2016
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- Ben Bernanke: Sebastian Mallaby’s Biography of Alan Greenspan: "Mallaby’s argument that Greenspan should have known that a tighter monetary policy was appropriate in 2004-2005 (if that was in fact the case!) strains credulity... (W)
- Daniel Nexon: Scott Eric Kaufman: "People are sharing this compendium of posts by the late Scott Eric Kaufman... (F)
- Mark Thoma: New Economic Thinking Is Needed to Stop Party Crashers Like Trump: "We must take steps such as support of unionization that equalize bargaining power in wage negotiations... (F)
- (2013): "Just Desserts": "'I get what you get in ten years, in two days.'--Chris Brown... (M)
- Pseudoerasmus: To Explain Myself on Twitter: My View of Chile: "Chile before Allende had already been a middle-income country... since the 19th century... (Tu)
Most-Recent Should-Reads:
- Mike Konczal (2010): Biggest Surprise of Last Two Years: Bad at Losing: "I expected Obama to be... better at losing... (Tu)
Most-Recent Links:
- Isaac Asimov: Second Foundation: "Bail Channis: 'Not all the force of the Second Foundation, could not have harmed you, surrounded as your were by your men, your machines, and your mental power.' The Mule: 'My mental power is yet with me, squirmer. And my men and machines are not far off'..." http://amzn.to/2gtwH9d
MOAR Should-Reads:
- Eric Holthaus: "We've never seen anything like what's happening in the Arctic and Antarctic right now. This is a new era." https://t.co/PUibEUN0t8 (Tu)
- Izabella Kaminska: Dollar Shortage Alert: "Who funds the working capital that keeps globalised trade lubricated and in flow? Answer: hard currency investors... (W)
- Izabella Kaminska: Global Trade Alert: "Hyun Song Shin’s latest thoughts on the connection between the bank/capital markets nexus, the dollar shortage problem and the break down of covered interest rate parity arbitrage deserve some careful consideration... (W)
- Chicago Booth Review: What economists think about Donald Trump’s 100-day plan
- Daniel Alpert and Robert Hockett: The Debt Goes On: A Post-Crisis “Progress” Report (F)
- David Weil and Heidi Sherholz: CBO Report Confirms What We Already Knew: "The Congressional Budget Office released a study of the economic impact of reversing these updates to the overtime regulations... (F)
- David Jacks et al.: Infant Mortality and the Repeal of Federal Prohibition: "Exploiting county-level variation in prohibition status... (F)
- James J. Feigenbaum and Christopher Muller: Lead exposure and violent crime in the early twentieth century: "In the second half of the nineteenth century, many American cities built water systems using lead or iron service pipes... (M)
- Dina D. Pomeranz: @dinapomeranz: "Income share of top 1% grew back to where it was 100 years ago in US, UK, CA, IR, AUS, not in DE, JP, FR, SE, DK, NL https://t.co/5MtmkHFMwC (M)
MOAR Links:
- Heidi Williams, Amy Finkelstein, and Matthew Gentzkow: Decoding the Medical Cost Mystery
- Nick Bunker: Monopsony, or why you're getting paid less than you think you should
- Erik Verlinde: Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
- Anjana Ahuja: On Elizabeth Loftus: "False memory, manipulation and the tooth fairy: Research raises the possibility of recollections being guided to achieve certain ends...
- Martha Olney (2015): Economics 113 Reader
- Nouriel Roubini: Trump’s Monetary Conundrum
- Jong-Wha Lee: Uniting for an Asian Century Paul Krugman: Build He Won’t
- Leah Platt Boustan: Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets: http://amzn.to/2gCMF25
- Marc Levinson: An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy: http://amzn.to/2fkHtx8
- Guillermo A. Calvo: Macroeconomics in Times of Liquidity Crises: Searching for Economic Essentials: http://amzn.to/2geWP5v
- Katherine Burton: How Renaissance’s Medallion Fund Became Finance’s Blackest Box: The Medallion Fund, an employees-only offering for the quants at Renaissance Technologies, is the blackest box in all of finance
- Austin Weinstein: Lecturers in Limbo: "Lecturers teach about 24 percent of classes at UC Berkeley.... At the center of the conflict... is something much deeper... the purpose of lecturers at the university...
- Gita Gopinath: Demonetization Dos and Don’ts
- Wikipedia: Call the Midwife
- H. P. Lovecraft: The Cats of Ulthar
- Red Truck Rural Bakery | Marshall & Warrenton, VA
- Martin Wolf: Brexiters choose to target the messenger: The ideologically driven assault on the OBR’s sober professionalism is disgraceful
- Tim Noah (2012): The Mobility Myth: Why everyone overestimates American equality of opportunity...
- Huineng Points at the Moon ~ 惠能指月
- SEK: In Memoriam
- Mary Beard: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome: http://amzn.to/2fvWh9l
- Duck of Minerva
- Josh Marshall: Medicare For The Win
- Glenn Garvin: Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dead at age 90
- 2010 Murphy-Goode Cabernet Sauvignon
- 2000 Cakebread Cellars Cabernet Sauvignon
