Links for the Week of March 26, 2017
Must-Reads:
- Nicholas Bagley: The GOP Obamacare replacement would help the rich, hurt the poor and unleash chaos: "Republicans have finally released their long-awaited alternative to the Affordable Care Act...
- Bob Christie: 380,000 Arizonans May Lose Medicaid: "The report looks at the patients who gained coverage under a Medicaid expansion pushed through in 2013 by former Gov. Jan Brewer...
- Ezra Klein: Trump’s weak closing argument on health care — and why it matters: "President Trump’s closing argument was weak...
- David Anderson: The Individual Market Under AHCA V2: "What [could] the individual insurance market could look like under the AHCA as rumored to be as of 0030, March 23, 2017[?]...
- Ray Dalio et al.: Populism: The Phenomenon: "This report is an examination of populism, the phenomenon...
- Ezra Klein: How Paul Ryan Played Donald Trump: "Donald Trump promised to be a... populist...
- Simon Wren-Lewis: On Criticising the Existence of Mainstream Economics: "I’m very grateful to Unlearning Economics (UE) for writing in a clear and forceful way a defence of the idea that attacking mainstream economics is a progressive endeavor...
Should-Reads:
- Anton Howes: Inducing Ideas for Industrialisation: "Perhaps the most popular modern theory of the causes of the Industrial Revolution is Robert C. Allen’s “Induced Innovation”...
- Nancy LeTorneau: There Is No Grand Strategy to Repeal Obamacare: "The Congressional Budget Office... released their report.... What we’ve seen from conservatives/Republicans/the White House since then...
- Andrew Neather: Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve by Ian Morris: "Ian Morris... argues that key societal values...
- Larry Summers: The Best Books on Globalization: "[The Economic Consequences of the Peace][] by John Maynard Keynes...
- Robert Farley: Trump Apology Tour: "Steven Swinford: 'The US has made a formal apology to Britain...
- Timothy Burke: Fighting for the Ancien Regime: "We were... part of the system...
- Alan de Bromhead et al.: When Britain turned inward: "[To what] extent... [was] trade policy... responsible...
- Caitlin MacNeal: Mulvaney: If Your State Doesn't Mandate Maternity Care, Change Your State: "Budget Director Mick Mulvaney... brushed off concerns about... repeal[ing] the Essential Health Benefits requirement....
- Joe Barton: Representative, R-TX: "[Asked by] reporters... why, after Republicans had held dozens of nearly-unanimous votes to repeal ObamaCare...
- Martin Longman: Not Even Trump Supports the GOP Healthcare Bill: "President Trump sent White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney down to Capitol Hill...
- Pedro Nicolaci da Costa: Trump Tax-Cut Agenda Faces Challenges: "It, it would seem like tax cuts would be fairly simple for a Republican president backed by a Republican majority in Congress...
- Alice Ollstein: @AliceOllstein on Twitter: "I asked Sen. [Pat] Roberts if he supports scrapping Essential Health Benefits. 'I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms', he snarked. #AHCA"
Links:
- Mike Konczal (2013): Guest Post: Reinhart/Rogoff and Growth in a Time Before Debt
- Jonathan Portes: Longer-Term Implications of Brexit
- Mike the Mad Biologist: Lessons I Learned Working For A Narcissist And What That Means For Il Trumpe
- Bruno Caprettini and Hans-Joachim Voth: Rage Against the Machines: Labour-Saving Technology and Unrest in England, 1830-32
- Anne Case and Angus Deaton: Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st Century: "Deaths of Despair...
- James Heckman and Robert Johnson: How the Economics of the Economics Profession Resists New Thinking
- David Roberts: Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology: Journalism cannot be neutral toward a threat to the conditions that make it possible.
- Ari Berman: Neil Gorsuch Praised a Leading Republican Activist Behind Voter Suppression Efforts: Gorsuch’s ties to Hans von Spakovksy suggest a hostility to voting rights.
- Christopher Mathias: Senior Trump Adviser Thinks Muslims 'By And Large' Want To 'Subjugate' Non-Muslims: Frank Wuco, yet another anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist in the White House, also likes to role-play as a fictional “jihadist” named Fuad Wasul.
- Bruce Sterling: Speech at SXSW2017
- Matthew Yglesias: Paul Ryan says he’s been “dreaming” of Medicaid cuts since he was “drinking out of kegs”: At last, a chance to take people’s health insurance away...
- Ryan Avent: The Productivity Paradox
- Paul Krugman: Robot Geometry
- Heather Boushey, J. Bradford DeLong, Marshall Steinbaum: After Piketty: The Agenda for Economics and Inequality
- Sarah Posner: Amazing Disgrace: How did Donald Trump—a thrice-married, biblically illiterate sexual predator—hijack the religious right?
- Jason Furman: Trump promised 4 percent growth. Here’s why we’d be very lucky to hit 3
- Mike Konczal: Why Banking Leverage Requirements Are Not Enough
- Nouriel Roubini: Markets overestimating Donald Trump policy positives
- Adam Roberts: Wells At The World's End
- Pranab Bardhan: State and Development: The Need for a Reappraisal of Current Literature
