Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Interesting Reads:

• Philip Oreopoulos and Uros Petronijevic: Improving university experiences: In-person coaching versus technology
• Robert Skidelsky: Slouching Toward Trump
• Tren Griffin: A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Ethics
• Tren Griffin: A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from James Sinegal
• Gillian Tan: That Big Berkshire Hathaway Railroad Deal
• Theodore Schleifer: Mitt Romney says Donald Trump will change America with 'trickle-down racism'
• Madcap Mongoose: Brad DeLong Quote On Limits of MMT (Functional Finance)--Your Thoughts?
• Art Goldhammer: Marx as Educator: "What worries me about this turn is not the effort wasted on Marx’s more useless ideas, such as the labor theory of value. It is rather how his 'othering' of political opponents influences the political attitudes of his young followers..."
• Memset: Free Tools and Services
• Neville Morley: Brexit Paradoxes 2

And Over Here:

• Comment of the Day; Neville Morley: A Note on the Jeffersonian Road Not Taken: "A Jeffersonian United States, founded on Cincinnatus-like citizen farmers...
• A Note on the Jeffersonian Road Not Taken in American Economic History
• Should-Read: Dietz Vollrath: Labor’s Share, Profits, and the Productivity Slowdown: "There’s been a slowdown in measured productivity growth... since about 2000...
• Should-Read: Daniel W. Drezner: @dandrezner: "Hey, @wikileaks, why did you delete this tweet?"
• Should-Read: Barry Eichengreen: Asia Needs to Spell Out Changes They Want in International Monetary System: "China and Asia need an international monetary system that is stable...
• Reminded, once again, that one Starbucks scone has the mass of 27 London scones... (Live from Marylbone)
• Monday Smackdown: There Is Something Very Wrong with the People Who Write for the Washington Post...
• Should-Read: Ed Luce: The Perilous Taming of Donald Trump: "Two dangers fac[e]... any populist who manages to get elected...
• Must-Read: Larry Summers: A Badly Designed US Stimulus Will Only Hurt the Working Class: "Investors have... concluded that... very expansionary fiscal policy and major reductions in regulation...
• Fiscal Expansion Needs to Be Done Right
• Should-Read: Not supply and demand, but rent-seeking and monopoly as potential sources of our Second Gilded Age: Matthew Rognlie (2015): Deciphering the fall and rise in the net capital share: "In the postwar era, developed economies have experienced two substantial trends in the net capital share of aggregate income...
• Should-Read: Speaking of "communities of engineering practice" and Hirschman linkages: Dan Wang: How Smartphones Made Shenzhen China's Innovation Capital: "The technological implications of smartphone technology go far beyond the smartphone itself...
• Any Way Out?
• Links for the Week of November 13, 2016
• Must-Read: Tomas Hellebrandt and Paolo Mauro: The Future of Worldwide Income Distribution: "Over the next two decades the structure of world population and income will undergo profound changes...
• Must-Read: Yes, a high-pressure economy can be very popular. Any other questions?Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth: Highway to Hitler: "Can infrastructure investment win “hearts and minds”?...
• Must-Read: Jared Bernstein: The Macro-Economy Doesn’t Care Which Party Signs the Stimulus Check: "I yield to no one in my concerns about the damage...

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