Links for 10-02-17

• Mergers Are Bad for Innovation - ProMarket
• Shifts Get Real: Understanding the GOP's Policy Quagmire - Paul Krugman
• China’s Exchange Rate Policies and U.S. Financial Markets - FRBSF
• #ILookLikeAnEconomist and so do you … – macromom blog
• The gender disparity in the Economics at UC Berkeley - WEB
• I’m Supposed to Believe Kneeling Makes One Worse at Sport Ball… – Jodi Beggs
• Chronic Conditions and Health Care Costs - Tim Taylor
• The lesson of the 70s - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Why is MMT so popular? - mainly macro
• Excess Funding Capacity in Tri-Party Repo - Liberty Street Economics
• Finding is Easy, Writing is Hard - Economic Principals
• Black Monday: 30 Years After - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Debt Keeps Rising and Nothing Bad Happens - Noah Smith
• The U.S. Can No Longer Afford Deficit-Increasing Tax Cuts - WSJ
• The Usefulness—and Possible Dangers—of Machine Learning - Regulatory Review
• Keynesian Economics Without the Phillips Curve - Roger Farmer
• The internet, social media, and political polarisation - VoxEU
• Refinements of social functionalism - Understanding Society
• Real GDPs still growing at ~2% on trend - Jared Bernstein
• Limits of digitisation - VoxEU