Links for the Week of January 29, 2017
Must-Reads:
- Michael Klein, Edward Schumacher-Matos, and Miriam Wasserman: Econofact: About: "EconoFact is... to bring key facts and incisive analysis to the national debate on economic and social policies...
- Simon Wren-Lewis: Attacking Economics is a Diversionary Tactic: "The financial crisis in the UK was the result of losses by banks on overseas assets, originating from the collapse in the US subprime market...
- Martin Wolf: Donald Trump and Xi Jinping’s Battle Over Globalisation: "[The Trumpists] believe, for example, that a value added tax not levied on exports is a subsidy to exports...
- Ed Luce: President Trump’s Speech Puts the World on Notice: "Combative address will go down as a turning point in America’s postwar role...
- Paul Krugman: Reagan, Trump, and Manufacturing: "It’s hard to focus on ordinary economic analysis amidst this political apocalypse...
- Dani Rodrik: What Did NAFTA Really Do?: "The overall efficiency gains are quite small...
- Noah Smith: The Ways That Pop Economics Hurt America: "Someone needed to write a book about how economic theory has been abused in American politics...
Most-Recent Should-Reads:
- Francis Wilkinson: Women Delivered a Body Blow to Trump's Populism: "If Trump embodies the people, who were those millions of bodies insisting that he doesn't represent them?...
- Larry Summers: Economy under Trump: Plan for the Worst: "There has not been so much anxiety about U.S. global leadership or about the sustainability of market-oriented democracy at any time in the past half-century...
Most-Recent Links:
- Barry Eichengreen: Powerful forces will lead to a strong dollar under Trump: The US president fails to see that his policy plans will drive the exchange rate up
- Christopher Robichaud: Facts Aren't Enough to Save Liberal Democracy
- 2012: I Demand That Cosma Shalizi Write a Weblog Post About What the Real Dyson-Press Contribution to the Theory of Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Is!
- 2012: Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma Blogging: Dyson and Press Really Are Very Clever Indeed...
- Mike Shulman (2012): Zero-Determinant Strategies in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma
- Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer: Fanzines, Cover Art, and the Best Vorkosigan Planet: An Interview with Lois McMaster Bujold
MOAR Should-Reads:
- Robert Allen (2004): Progress and Poverty in Early Modern Europe: "At the end of the middle ages, the urban, manufacturing core of Europe was on the Mediterranean with an important offshoot in Flanders...
- Walt Mossberg: Lousy ads are ruining the online experience: "I left the Journal in 2013 and co-founded Recode...
- Pro-Growth Liberal: Paul Ryan’s Two-Faced Comments on Auerbach’s Tax: "Page 15 of the tax portion of A Better Way...
- Lars Svensson: Leaning against the wind: Re-evaluating the evidence: "‘Leaning against the wind’ refers to conducting, for financial-stability purposes...
- Barry Ritholtz: Concentration of Robots by Country: "Interesting way to look at global labor force:
- Gideon Rachman: Truth, Lies and the Trump Administration: "Having a liar [like Donald Trump] in the White House is a disaster...
- Charles Stross (2010): Insufficient Data: "So. I ask: how many people does it take, as a minimum, to maintain our current level of technological civilization?...
- Paul Krugman: Donald the Unready: "Betsy DeVos... doesn’t know basic education terms, doesn’t know about federal statutes governing special education...
- Kevin Drum: Who's Afraid of the Trans-Pacific Partnership?: "The responsibility of trade deals for the decline of manufacturing in the US has become practically holy writ over the past year... Should-Read: Ann Marie Marciarille: Email, The Gift That Keeps on Giving: "U.S. District Judge John D. Bates spilled a considerable amount of ink in yesterday's Memorandum Opinion enjoining the Aetna-Humana health insurance merger...
- David Beckworth: It's Policy Divergence, Not China, Driving the Dollar: "President Trump is worried about the strong dollar... said... China holds down its currency...
- Marketwatch: Lost a factory job? Don’t blame NAFTA or China’s joining the WTO
- Bonnie Kristian: We're All Public Intellectuals Now: "Public Intellectuals in the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits? http://amzn.to/2kx3M6U...
- Mark Thoma: What if “alternative facts” spread to economic data?: "Donald Trump’s inability to accept news that disagrees with [his] view...
- Larry Summers: Time for Business Leaders to Wake Up: "I wonder what the business leaders who have been waxing enthusiastic about our new pro-business administration are thinking right now...
MOAR Links:
- Manu Saadia: Live from the Gamma Quadrant: On Trekonomics at Books Inc. in Berkeley
- Minxin Pei: Xi Jinping’s Year of Living Dangerously
- Chris Sims (2010): Understanding Non-Bayesians
- Robert Allen
- Robert Looney: Brazil's Hard Road to Affluence
- James Kwak: Health Care and John D. Rockefeller’s Dog
- Kevin Drum: What Does It Take for the Press to Call a Lie a Lie?
- Financial Times: Trump’s stimulus plans imply a stronger dollar: The president cannot blame the Fed if the exchange rate starts to hurt...
- Brian Buetler: The Media Failed to Prepare Americans for the Trump Whiplash: The policy stakes of this election were never adequately conveyed by the political press.
- Nick Bunker: What President Trump doesn’t understand about job creation (and destruction)
- Kevin Drum: What Does It Take to Finally Call a Lie a Lie? We Have an Answer: "The New York Times has called one of President Trump's lies a lie. The word isn't used in the text of the story, but it is used in the headline..."
- Mark Thoma: What the Davos crowd needs to understand Dani Rodrik: Is Global Inequality the Enemy of National Equality?
- Barry Ritholtz: Investing: Opinions vs. Facts: "In politics, you can get away with this. Voters live in bubbles of their own making.... Investors, however, aren’t quite so lucky when their belief systems diverge from reality...
- Mark Thoma: Better Wisdom from Crowds: "People are asked... what they think the right answer is, and what they think popular opinion will be. The variation between the two aggregate responses indicates the correct answer...
- Tim Duy: Beware of Hard-Money Advocates Filling Fed Positions
- David Anderson: Big Payer vs. Big Provider in the Bay State
- Sean Blanda: Medium, and The Reason You Can’t Stand the News Anymore
- Dave Zirin: I Was at Trump’s Inauguration. It Was Tiny
- Dan Sichel: Can the U.S. Economy Sustain 3½ to 4 Percent Economic Growth?: "A hole-in-one at one of Trump’s premier golf courses seems like a better bet...
- Benjamin D. Sommers and Arnold M. Epstein: Red-State Medicaid Expansions — Achilles’ Heel of ACA Repeal?
- Dani Rodrik: What Did NAFTA Really Do?
