Links for 03-13-18

• Springtime for Sycophants - Paul Krugman
• Assessing Trends in Real Shares - Econbrowser
• The consumer benefits of trade agreements - VoxEU
• Towards a Union in the Union - Thomas Piketty
• When Shall We Overcome? - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• AEA draft code of conduct - Women in Economics at Berkeley
• China’s Unnecessary and Counterproductive Fiscal Consolidation - Brad Setser
• Identification Is Not Causality, Causality Is Not Identification - Marc Bellemare
• Trade Wars Can Be a Game of Chicken. Sometimes, Literally. - NYTimes
• Budget deficits, fiscal councils and authoritarian regimes - mainly macro
• The Great Recession took a toll on public health - EurekAlert
• Shares of Real GDP Don't Give the Real Story of Manufacturing - Justin Fox
• Great Recession still plagues workers with lower lifetime wages - EurekAlert!
• The Household Fallacy - Roger E. A. Farmer
• Ergodicity - Roger E. A. Farmer
• Cultural costs of high house prices - Stumbling and Mumbling
• US economy is still far from fully recovered - Martin Sandau
• Ten Years After Bear - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Can central bankers become Superforecasters? - Bank Underground
• Innovation as a Challenge to Regulation - The Regulatory Review
• Equity markets are thriving but are they relevant? - John Kay