Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

Interesting Reads:

• Gary Cohn (investment banker)
• Donald Trump is already an awful president: Peregrine Fissell: Americans Think Trump Will Be an Awful President
• Kevin Drum: Yet Again, Republicans Demonstrate the Mean-Spiritedness at the Dark Heart of Their Party
• Steve M.: Republicans Aren't Cowards For Falling in Line Behind Trump—They're Worse
• Dean Clancy: Why Trump and the GOP Won't Repeal and Replace Obamacare
• Chad Stone: No One Wins Trade Wars: Trump's 'America first' trade policy will be bad for working Americans...
• Michael L. Dertouzos, Robert M. Solow, and Richard K. Lester (1989): Made in America: Regaining the Productive Edge (Cambridge: MIT Press: 0262041006) <http://amzn.to/2kH6JSv>
• Stephen S. Cohen and John Zysman (1987): Manufacturing Matters: The Myth of the Post-Industrial Economy (New York: Basic Books) <http://amzn.to/2kGX65V>
• Vaclav Smil (2013): Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing (Cambridge: MIT Press: 0262528355) <http://amzn.to/2kg52u6>
• Sue Helper: Supply Chains and Equitable Growth
• Philip Delves Broughton: America business is the master, not victim, of globalisation: If businesses saw more value in investing in US workers, they could have done so...
• My Keynes Lecture, and Reviews of Skidelsky's Keynes Biography

And Over Here:

• Reading: Barry Eichengreen (2008): Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System
• Wanted: A Readable Polanyi...
• Links for the Week of January 29, 2017
• Should-Read: Alan Smith and Federica Cocco: The huge disparities in US life expectancy in five charts: "Inequality means that individuals in the US have very different experiences...
• Should-Read: I believe that Mike Pence, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan need to start the process of invoking the 25th Amendment in order to properly assess the situation: Benjamin Wittes: Malevolence Tempered by Incompetence: Trump’s Horrifying Executive Order on Refugees and Visas: The malevolence of President Trump’s Executive Order on visas and refugees is mitigated chiefly...
• No. NAFTA Didn't Kill American Manufacturing Employment: Afterthoughts 5
• Should-Read: David Anderson: Trump and the Global Creative Class: "Amitabh Chandra: 'Immigration ban and the fear they create is a giant tax on US universities and US innovation... research and R&D will move abroad'...
• Must-Read: Kevin Drum: NAFTA Is Really Not a Big Deal: "How big an impact did NAFTA have on the US economy?...
• Should-Read: Bill McBride: These Are Not Normal Times
• Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 5
• Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 6
• Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 7
• Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 8
• Reading: Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, chapter 9
• Robert Allen (2011): Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction, Epilogue
• Reading: Guillaume Daudin et al.: Globalization 1870-1914
• Reading: Norman Angell (1909): Europe's Optical Illusion, chapters 6-9
• Reading: John Maynard Keynes (1919): The Economic Consequences of the Peace, chs. 1-2
• Reading: Vladimir Lenin (1902): What Is to Be Done?
• Trolls...
• Reading: Patrick O'Brien: European Economic Development: The Contribution of the Periphery
• Reading: Lant Pritchett (1997): Divergence, Bigtime
• Reading: William Nordhaus: Do Real-Output and Real-Wage Measures Capture Reality?
• For the Weekend...: Postmodern Jukebox: Paparazzi
• We Are Live and Ready to Go with Reddit AMA: http://reddit.com/r/IAMA
• Must-Read: It's not just "pop economics" by "pop economists". It's bad economics by senior and (formerly) well-respected economists: 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...
• Should-Read: 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...
• Should-Read: 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?...
• Weekend Reading: Bonnie Kristian: We're All Public Intellectuals Now

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