Links for 05-08-17

• Less is more when it comes to Federal Reserve policy - Larry Summers
• “Troubled Wisconsin Man Goes on 50 State Killing Spree” - Econbrowser
• Inflation targets and the benefits of an explicit tolerance ban - VoxEU
• On Health and Welfare, Moral Arguments Outweigh Economics - NYTimes
• Can France Survive Without Europe? - Gloomy European Economist
• Will Baumol - The Enlightened Economist
• Compassionate capitalism in the Middle Ages - VoxEU
• It's not the economy, stupid - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Underestimating the impact of austerity - mainly macro
• The Wrong Way to Fix Student Debt - The New York Times
• Gender discrimination vs market competition in India - VoxEU
• Snippets from the Roman world - Understanding Society