Grasping Reality by Brad DeLong

Interesting Reads:

• Kathleen Hays et al.: Economic Policy
• Eduardo Porter: Shaky Jobs, Sluggish Wages: Reasons Are at Home
• Wikipedia: Four Horsemen (Supreme Court)
• John Maynard Keynes (1932): The Mammon of Unrighteousness
• 2013: The Hoover Administration Was "Liquidationist"; Hoover Himself Was Merely Anti-Keynesian
• Julian Day: Alexander Nevsky (or the Russians are coming!!)
• Max Weber: Only If One Takes the Semblance of Peace for Its Reality Can One Believe that Peace and Prosperity Will Emerge
• Jason Kottke: OJ: Made in America is about more than just OJ
• Sarah McBride: Why It’s So Hard to Build the Next Silicon Valley: Google brought its high-speed internet to Kansas City, but it didn’t turn the city into a tech paradise.
• Mark Thoma: The Real Test for the Republican Health Care Plan: "The real test will be how the proposal affects people who cannot afford health insurance. Will they be helped or hurt? The answer seems preordained..."
• Douglas L. Campbell and Ju Hyun Pyun (2015): The Diffusion of Development: Along Genetic or Geographic Lines?

And Over Here:

• Rethinking Productivity Growth: Fresh at Project Syndicate
• Must-Read: Simon Wren-Lewis: A Self-Fulfilling Expectations-Led Recession?: "I acknowledge that macro rightly got a lot of stick by largely ignoring the role of finance...
• Should-Read: Clare McCann: The False Promises of Online Education: "Caroline Hoxby found that online education may not be the 'low-cost, high-quality' opportunity many say it is...
• Should-Read: Richard Lipsey: The Phillips Curve and an Assumed Unique Macroeconomic Equilibrium in Historical Context: "So we seem to have gone full circle from the early Keynesian view...
• Should-Read: John Maynard Keynes (1941): Keynes on the Limits of Econometrics: To Koopmans: "Many thanks for sending me your article. I enjoyed it very much...
• A Month-Long April Fools Festival of Kevin Hassett, Day 2: Economist of Mass Destruction Round I
• Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage: Josh Marshall: Trump's Shame: "Donald Trump, 2/28/17: 'We are blessed to be joined tonight by Carryn Owens...
• A Month-Long April Fools Festival of Kevin Hassett: Dow 36000 Round I
• Reading: Nathan Nunn (2008): The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades
• Live from America's Better Self: Heather Boushey: Winning Change for Women & Families: "Wed, Mar 1 5:30 PM The Bentley Reserve San Francisco, CA, United States...
• Should-Read for Ash Wednesday: Rod Dreher: Life in ‘The City of Rod’: "More [from Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig]...:
• John Taylor vs. Janet Yellen in Early 2009 Edition: Hoisted from the Archives
• (Late) Monday Smackdown: In Which I Am Annoyed at Being Paired with John Taylor
• Must-Read: Jared Bernstein: Inflation?! We ain’t got no stinkin’ inflation!: "The core PCE deflator rose at an annual rate of only 1.2 percent in 2016Q4...
• Should-Read: Sarah Perry: The History of Fertility Transitions and the New Memeplex: "European cultures have historically prevented people from restricting family size within marriage...

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