Links for 12-30-16

• The American Public Against Trump - Alan Blinder
• Global economic forces conspire to stymie U.S. manufacturing - Brookings
• Are mergers good or bad for the economy? - CBS News
• The current and future state of the sharing economy - Brookings
• Fake Academe, Looking Much Like the Real Thing - The New York Times
• Make the Risk Premium small again - Antonio Fatas
• Why Didn't the U.S Enact Carbon Cap and Trade in 2009? - Mathew Kahn
• The Diocletian Edict: Price-Fixing in History - Tim Taylor
• Trump’s Extreme Oligarchy - Simon Johnson
• How Has Wives' Share of Income Changed? - St. Louis Fed
• The Year in Review, 2016: The Triumph of the Blowhards - Econbrowser
• Americans believe crazy, wrong things - The Washington Post
• Keynes Reborn - Koichi Hamada
• Trump's Trade Chief Makes a Rookie Mistake - Noah Smith
• Monetary misperceptions, food banks, and NGDP targeting - Basil Halperin
• Economics in the ancient world? - Notes On Liberty