Procrastinating on December 2, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must- and Should-Reads:
- Matthew Yglesias: @mattyglesias: "I've got some bad news for the American people about Donald Trump's policy agenda..." https://t.co/aCZcJigOcB
- Richard Baldwin: @BaldwinRE: "You can’t vote against globalisation by voting against agreements that shape & control it..." https://t.co/AUn6bdczKF The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
- Sandra Black, Jason Furman, Laura Giuliano and Wilson Powell: Minimum Wage Increases and Earnings in Low-Wage Jobs: "18 states plus the District of Columbia have implemented minimum wage increases...
- Bridget Ansel: Trump’s paid leave proposal could backfire on women and families - Equitable Growth
- The "Short" vs. the "Long" Twentieth Century... - Equitable Growth
Interesting Reads:
- Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda: Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution: "From 1685 to 1810... the real price of watches... falls steadily by 1.3% a year..."
- Ed Crooks: What role for the workers in Trump’s American factory revival?: "In places like Buffalo there is evidence that US manufacturing has a bright future. It just does not look like a future that will include millions of new jobs..."
- Eric Hobsbawm (1987): The Age of Empire, 1870-1914 http://amzn.to/2gYsn2A
- Eric Hobsbawm (1995): The Age of Extremes, 1914-1989 http://amzn.to/2fOZYqt
- John Maynard Keynes (1919): The Economic Consequences of the Peace http://amzn.to/2gJE24B
- John Stuart Mill (1871): Principles of Political Economy http://amzn.to/2gLSJSw
- Branko Milanovic: Was the 20th Century "Long" or "Short"?
- Invictus: Seattle Minimum Wage Experiment Is Over
And Over Here:
- Must-Read: Sandra Black, Jason Furman, Laura Giuliano and Wilson Powell: Minimum Wage Increases and Earnings in Low-Wage Jobs: "18 states plus the District of Columbia have implemented minimum wage increases...
- Hoisted from the Archives from 2012: Eric Hobsbawm, RIP: Let me correct the late Tony Judt.... It should read: "Even though he was a lifetime Communist, Eric Hobsbawm was one of the greatest historians of the 20th century."
- Hoisted from the Archives from 1984: Faith: Pascal's Wager, When the Odds Are a Thousand to One Against: Eric Hobsbawm says that he would have still been a communist in 1934 even if he had known about Stalin's slaughter and starvation in the Ukraine because Stalin might have been building a utopia. May I guess that Eric Hobsbawm never read Rosa Luxemburg?
- The "Short" vs. the "Long" Twentieth Century...: Ah. I see that you have found the first draft of my opening lecture for Econ 115 next semester... https://twitter.com/BrankoMilan/status/804205835543019520 https://t.co/lK82RVQudb
- Should-Read: Richard Baldwin: @BaldwinRE: "You can’t vote against globalisation by voting against agreements that shape & control it..." https://t.co/AUn6bdczKF
- Should-Read: Matthew Yglesias: @mattyglesias: "I've got some bad news for the American people about Donald Trump's policy agenda..." https://t.co/aCZcJigOcB
You Might Look at:
- Arrival (2016)
- Kindred Winnecoff: World Politics in a Time of Populist Nationalism
Perhaps Worth Reading...