Links (11/5/18)

• Blame the Economists? - J. Bradford DeLong
• Health spending over time - mainly macro
• New evidence on convergence - Growth Economics
• The Scandinavian Style of Capitalism - Tim Taylor
• SAT retaking and college enrolment gaps - VoxEU
• The permanent-transitory confusion - VoxEU
• A Party Defined by Its Lies - Paul Krugman
• What Is an "Almost Prime" Number? - Scientific American
• Preserving the Wealth That Conservation Built - Austan Goolsbee
• William Nordhaus Is a Master Consensus-Builder - Economic Principals
• Fall 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available On-line - Timothy Taylor
• Are education attainment levels the root cause of all good earnings news? - Stephen Gordon
• The Perversion of Fiscal Policy (Slightly Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Mediamacro is in rude health, and is also indicative of a deeper failure - mainly macro
• Economy Adds 250,000 Jobs in October, Employment Rate Hits Recovery High - Dean Baker
• How the Trust Trap Perpetuates Inequality - Scientific American
• The Oceans Are Heating Up Faster Than Expected - Scientific American
• Doubting the Fed’s Resolve Is a Losing Proposition - Tim Duy
• Trump and Navarro's Mistaken Assumptions about Trade Deficits - PIIE
• Publishing and promotion in economics: The tyranny of the Top Five - VoxEU
• Dueling Economists: Rival Analyses of Harvard’s Admissions Process - Chronicle of Higher Education
• The Fed Is Relaxing Banking Rules. What Goodies Are the Banks Getting? - The New York Times