Links for 09-20-17

• The great unwind begins - Jim Hamilton
• Colleges as class reproduction machines - Brookings
• How Food Spending Varies with Income - Jayson Lusk
• The harm of high housing costs - Stumbling and Mumbling
• VIrtues and Flaws: NAFTA, and Economists' Views of NAFTA - Brad DeLong
• Antitrust in the Labor Market: Protectionist, or Pro-Competitive? - ProMarket
• Ideas aren’t running out, but they are getting more expensive to find - VoxEU
• Insurance companies: amplifiers or the white knights? - Bank Underground
• Monte Carlo Simulations & the "SimDesign" Package in R - Dave Giles
• Different Ways of Thinking about Carbon Budgets - Stochastic Trend
• Why Workers Are Losing to Capitalists - Noah Smith
• Conversation with Larry Summers - Tyler Cowen
• China's August Reserves - Brad Setser