Procrastinating on January 27, 2017
Over at Equitable Growth: Must- and Should-Reads:
- Paul Krugman: Reagan, Trump, and Manufacturing: "It’s hard to focus on ordinary economic analysis amidst this political apocalypse...
- 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...
- Dani Rodrik: What Did NAFTA Really Do?: "The overall efficiency gains are quite small...
- Heather Boushey: [The challenging and continuing slide in U.S. unionization rates | Equitable Growth][]
- Nick Bunker: [Weekend reading: the fiscal multipliers, childcare, and maximum employment edition | Equitable Growth][]
Interesting Reads:
- 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?
- 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
And Over Here:
- Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage: The orange-haired baboon is far from being the only baboon in the cage: Scott Lemieux: Just How Monstrous is the Contemporary GOP?: "Matt Lewis discovers that why Republicans never have an alternative health care plan. Perhaps the most instructive part of the piece is this bit of throat-clearing:
- *Must-Read: *: Dani Rodrik: What Did NAFTA Really Do?: "The overall efficiency gains are quite small...
- Live from Cyberspace: Apple really cannot do the cloud over anything other than a rock solid high-bandwidth connection—and not even all the time then—can it?
- DRAFT for IAMA Reddit: Friday: 4 PM PST
- The Age of Incompetence: No Longer Live from Project Syndicate
- Brad DeLong Reddit IAmA Tomorrow, Friday January 27, 4 PM PST
- Should-Read: 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...
- Must-Read: What produces manufacturing decline is not "trade deals" but stupid industrial and macroeconomic policies--like those of Reagan, and now Trump: Paul Krugman: Reagan, Trump, and Manufacturing: "It’s hard to focus on ordinary economic analysis amidst this political apocalypse...
- Should-Read: Mark Thoma: What if “alternative facts” spread to economic data?: "Donald Trump’s inability to accept news that disagrees with [his] view...
You Might Look at:
- 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][]
Perhaps Worth Looking at...
