Procrastinating on March 21, 2017
Over at Equitable Growth: Must- and Should-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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Nick Bunker: How life experiences affect the views of U.S. monetary policymakers | Equitable Growth
- Dionna Cheatham & Gabriel Matthews: Does Supplemental Security Income inhibit success? | Equitable Growth
Interesting Reads:
- 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...
And Over Here:
- Ian Morris: Why the West Rules--for Now: Econ 210b: Hoisted from the Archives
- On Nicholas Lemann's Partial Recantation of His "Neoliberalism": Hoisted from the Archives
- Barbara Ehrenreich's "Nickel and Dimed": Hoisted from the Archives
- Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage: Duncan Black: Crass Trump: "If he didn't have the manners and style...
- Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage: Erik Loomis: Dumbasses of America: "The genre of 'let’s talk to idiotic white voters who support Trump even though he will decimate their lives' is already more stale than bread baked on November 8...
- Must-Read: 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...
- Should-Read: 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...
- Should-Read: 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”...
- Must-Read: Time for every state to neutralize all policies of the Trump administration. States that do not are being really stupid: 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...
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