Grasping Reality on TypePad, by Brad DeLong

MOAR Should-Reads:

• Dani Rodrik: Global Citizens, National Shirkers: "I know what a 'global citizen' looks like...
• Simon Wren-Lewis: The academic consensus on austerity solidifies, but policymakers go their own sweet way: "Any fiscal expansion in the US would not be for Keynesian reasons...
• Barry Eichengreen et al.: On the fickleness of capital flows: "According to conventional wisdom, capital flows are fickle...
• Marco Buti and Karl Pichelmann: European integration and populism: Addressing Dahrendorf's quandary: "With its current competences lacking the ability to address distribution effects...

MOAR Links:

• Annalee Newitz: Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto is a political trainwreck
• Mark Zuckerberg: Building Global Community
• Stan
• Jay Rosen: A few notes on unbuilding a key part of the presidency: The American President can blow up the world. A lot of work went into reassuring us that he won't. Now it's being undone.
• Jonathan Chait: Paul Ryan’s Dream of Tax Cuts for Rich Will Not Be Denied: "Republicans have control of Congress, and even if nothing else comes out of it and everything else falls part, the richest one percent are going to get paid...
• Brian Buetler: The Great Government Breakdown Has Begun: "Trump is exercising zero restraint, and Republicans aren't stopping him. Four years from now, the damage might be irreparable...
• Daniel Dale: The complete list of all 80 false things Donald Trump has said in his first 4 weeks as president: "The Star’s running tally of the bald-faced lies, exaggerations and deceptions the president of the United States of America has said, so far...
• Matthew Yglesias: On Twitter: "It's weird that Flynn did nothing wrong, lied about it, had the White House lie about it to the public, and then got fired when caught. https://t.co/NPo7Cka9vM
• Andy Banker: Vandals target historic Jewish cemetery in University City
• Maarten Rikken: Same-sex marriage policy linked to drop in teen suicide attempts
• Nancy LeTourneau: Mad Dog Mattis Attempts to Walk Back Another Potential War Crime
• Martin Longman: Trump’s SoHo Project, the Mob, and Russian Intelligence
• Timothy L. O'Brien: Trump Can't Seem to Shake Those Russia Problems
• Arvind Subramanian: The WTO Reborn?
• Cate Huston: Women in Silicon Valley react to allegations of sexism at Uber: "I'm always a little surprised when women speak publicly because the cost of that is so high. Am I ever surprised of that stuff happening? No. Was I surprised that it was happening at Uber? Hell no.… Are these people living under a rock?"
• Noah Smith: The Myth of the U.S. Immigration Crisis
• Josh Brown: To my Jewish, Irish, Asian and Italian friends: "I work on Wall Street and live on Long Island. I am surrounded by people who can’t recognize how recently their own ancestry and ethnicity would have been a problem for them. Are you one of them? If so, I hope this hits close enough to home so as to awaken you from your contented slumber."
• Anne Laurie: It’s All Fun & Games, Till Your Constituents Realize You’re Trying to Kill Them
• Prakash Loungani and Jonathan D. Ostry: The IMF’s Work on Inequality: Bridging Research and Reality
• Marc Levinson: How economic boom times in the West came to an end
• Martin Wolf: Simple-minded economics distorts the debate over education: The idea of a market-driven university system is a disaster waiting to happen
• Anatole Kaletsky: Tony Blair’s Democratic Insurrection
• Professor the Baroness Wolf of Dulwich et al.: Remaking Tertiary Education: Can We Create a System that Is fair and Fit for Purpose?
• Martin Wolf: Uses and Abuses of Economics in the Debate on Universities