Links for the Week of February 19, 2017
Most-Recent Must-Reads:
- Nick Bunker: What’s Behind the Decline in U.S. Interest Rates?: "Eggertsson, Mehrotra, and Robbins decompose the roughly 4 percent decline in the natural rate of interest since 1970...
- Richard Baldwin: Trump’s Anachronistic Trade Strategy: "Trump has aggressively lashed out against globalization...
- David Anderson: Governing Is Hard: "The Republican Party has an ACA problem. The ACA is deficit reducing...
- Colin Camerer: On "Rational Expectations" and John Muth: "Rational expectations pioneer John Muth in 1984...
- Nick Timiraos: Trump Team’s Growth Forecasts Far Rosier Than Those of CBO, Private Economists: "While there are often disparities between the White House and independent agencies on growth projections, they are rarely this large...
Most-Recent Should-Reads:
- Paul Krugman: Trump's Rosy Scenario: "The claimed returns to Trumpnomics are close to the highest growth rates we’ve seen under any modern administration...
- Michael Berube: Theory Tuesday III: "Sean [McCann]’s account of [how]...
- Dietrich Vollrath (2015): What Assumptions Matter for Growth Theory?: "Somewhere along I-40 and I-81 I was able to get a little clarity...
Most-Recent Links:
- David Sirota: Republicans Boost Wall Street Donors, Help Finance Industry Stop States From Offering Retirement Assistance To Workers
- Sidney Blumenthal: [A Short History of the Trump Family][]
- Peter Turchin and Sergey A. Nefedov (2009): Secular Cycles (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 0691136963) <http://amzn.to/2kvXWmI>
- Martin Sandbu (2015): Europe's Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 069116830X) <http://amzn.to/2kvemXt>
- Paul Blustein (2016): Laid Low: Inside the Crisis That Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF (New York: CIGI Press: 1928096255) <http://amzn.to/2kvpWlz>
- Sidney Blumenthal (2017): Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856 (New York: Simon & Schuster: 1501153781) <http://amzn.to/2lhJUlq>
MOAR Should-Reads:
- Tim Duy: Fed's Bullard Knows His Treasury Yield Curve: "Having tipped their toes in the water with two interest-rate hikes...
- Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda (2016): Adam Smith, Watch Prices, and the Industrial Revolution: "Watches were the first mass-produced consumer durable...
- Anton Cheremukhin et al. (2013): Was Stalin Necessary for Russia’s Economic Development?: "We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913...
- Peter Orszag: Here's How Trump Will Change Obamacare: "I expect to see Republicans stage a dramatic early vote to repeal...
- Martin Sandbu: Donald Trump’s Love of Manufacturing Is Misguided: "Donald Trump and his economic team love manufacturing...
- Tirthankar Roy: Were Indian Famines ‘Natural’ Or ‘Manmade’?: "I review the theories of Indian famines and suggest that a mainly geographical account...
- David Anderson: A BFD that Passed amongst the Chaos: "Repeal and Replace or Repeal and Delay and Pray is dead...
- Charles Wyplosz: When the IMF Evaluates the IMF: "Two critical mistakes are not mentioned...
- Ben Thompson: DistroKid, The “Publisher’s Right”, Shopify’s Results: "As I’ve noted... the old value chain had three parts: supply — distribution — demand...
- Robert Waldmann: Marking My Beliefs To Market: UK Violent Crime: "The lead causes crime hypothesis...
- Wing Thye Woo: China’s Growth Odyssey: "Former World Bank Chief Economist Justin Yifu Lin is sanguine...
- Caitlin Macneal: Perry Didn't Fully Understand Role Of Energy Secretary At First: "Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry did not realize exactly what the position of energy secretary entails...
- Robert Waldmann: Buchanan, Smith, and Krugman: "There is no reason why macroeconomists can't work on empirical microeconomics while also using old Keynesian models for forecasting and policy advice...
- James Kwak: Health Care and John D. Rockefeller’s Dog: "Few people actually want to live in a world where health care is distributed by a free market...
- Kevin Drum: Charts of the Day: If Only Every State Could Be As "Out of Control" As California: "I feel like someone ought to defend the honor of California against our president, so why not me? Here you go... *Ruy Teixeira: The Optimistic Leftist: "A new utopian vision for the left’s emerging coalition will... include...
MOAR Links:
- Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen: Hunger and Public Action: China and India
- Luis Bértola and Jeffrey Williamson: Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?:
- Nancy LeTourneau: The Connection Between Trump’s Ignorance and Lies
- Helen F. Ladd (1998): Evidence on Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
- Barbara Lewis Solow: British capitalism and Caribbean slavery : the legacy of Eric Williams
- Ian Buruma: The New Anti-Semitism
- Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda
- Jason Furman: Border Adjustment as Tax Policy and as Macroeconomic Policy
- Jason Long and Joseph Ferrie: Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Great Britain and the United States since 1850
- Martin Sandbu (2015): Europe's Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 069116830X) <http://amzn.to/2kvemXt>
- Paul Blustein (2016): Laid Low: Inside the Crisis That Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF (New York: CIGI Press: 1928096255) <http://amzn.to/2kvpWlz>
- Sidney Blumenthal (2016): A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 - 1849 (New York: Simon & Schuster: 147677725X) <http://amzn.to/2lRo77s>
- Luis Bértola and Jeffrey Williamson (2017): Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction?: Looking Over the Long Run (New York: Springer: 3319446207) <http://amzn.to/2kPNbHJ>
- E. M. Halliday (2002): Understanding Thomas Jefferson (New York: Harper: 0060957611) <http://amzn.to/2kErpWp>
- Robert O. Paxton: [The Anatomy of Fascism][] (London: Allen Lane: 0713997206) <http://amzn.to/2kYyG7f>
- Martin Sandbu (2015): Europe's Orphan: The Future of the Euro and the Politics of Debt (Princeton: Princeton University Press: 069116830X) <http://amzn.to/2kvemXt>
- Paul Blustein (2016): Laid Low: Inside the Crisis That Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF (New York: CIGI Press: 1928096255) <http://amzn.to/2kvpWlz>
- Noah Smith: Why Go After Milton Friedman?: "Why not leave Friedman alone and just talk about his ideas?...
- Carl Bildt: Restoring Faith in Globalization
- Tyler Cowen: Industrial Revolution Comparisons Aren't Comforting
- Herbert Simon (1978): Rationality as Process and as Product of Thought
- Sidney Blumenthal (2017): Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856 (New York: Simon & Schuster: 1501153781) <http://amzn.to/2lhJUlq>
- ** Emotional Labor
