Links (1/24/19)

• Grad students across country criticize econ departments’ culture - Yale Daily News
• Stealing from the Poor and Giving to the Rich in the Workplace - Regulatory Review
• Completing physics Ph.D. does not stem from scoring high on GRE - EurekAlert
• How Political Campaigns Can Easily Manipulate Public Attitudes Toward Public Policy - ProMarket
• Friedman and Schwartz, Eichengreen and Temin, Hawtrey and Cassel - Uneasy Money
• An Independent Fed Isn’t ‘Loco,’ It’s Effective - WSJ
• The key arguments for high top rates of income tax are political as well as pecuniary - mainly macro
• Repugnant markets spur thinking about how to engineer complex systems - Stanford Humanities and Sciences
• The Three Revolutions Economics Needs - Edmund S. Phelps
• Davos Elites Love to Advocate for Equality - So Long As Nothing Gets Done - ProMarket
• Techies, trade, and skill-biased productivity - VoxEU
• Three Papers and Four Graphs and Tables: The Top Marginal Tax Rate - Brad DeLong