Links for 11-06-17

• Macroeconomics: Religion or Science? - Roger Farmer
• Has Trump Captured the Fed? - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• America’s great decoupling - Lane Kenworthy
• The journalist as amateur scientist - mainly macro
• Global real interest rates since 1311 - Bank Underground
• Disagreement and monetary policy - VoxEU
• Three (almost) inexplicable parts of the Republican tax plan - Larry Summers
• Ancestry and Development: the Power Pose of Economics? - Douglas Campbell
• Why So Many People Choose the Wrong Health Plans - Richard Thaler
• The Wall Street Journal at War with Itself - Economic Principals
• Banking the Unbanked: The Indian Revolution - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Does China’s new policy regime threaten the global upswing? - Gavyn Davies
• The Dark Side of Discrimination in the Economics Profession - INET
• A Note on Variance Decomposition with Local Projections - NBER
• Regression on Term Structures - No Hesitations
• Powell/Yellen - Stephen Williamson
• How to defend capitalism - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Labour coercion and outside options - VoxEU
• Capital flows vs Kapital flows - Nick Rowe
• How to Improve the Trump Tax Plan - Greg Mankiw