Economist's View

Links (2/25/19)

• Is Economics for Me? Increasing the Participation of Black Women in Economics - Lael Brainard
• New Evidence that Unions Raise Wages for Less-Skilled Workers - NBER Digest
• When does one of the central ideas in economics work? - EurekAlert
• The Anticompetitive Effects of Low Interest Rates - ProMarket
• Democrats for Family Values - Paul Krugman
• Evaluating lower-for-longer policies: Temporary price-level targeting - Ben Bernanke
• The Road to Digital Serfdom? The Visible Hand of Surveillance Capitalism - ProMarket
• Models Only Get You So Far - Simon Potter
• Big Data for 21st Century Economic Statistics - No Hesitations
• Monetary policy communications and household inflation expectations - VoxEU
• Inflation risks and inflation expectations - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• How Imperfect Knowledge Shapes Financial Markets - INET
• The economic effects of density: A synthesis - VoxEU
• Central bank tone moves asset prices - VoxEU
• Balance Sheet News - Stephen Williamson
• China's High Savings Rate - Tim Taylor
• Marx's ideas about government - Understanding Society
• The public and private marginal product of capital - VoxEU

Links (2/19/19)

• Is Neo-Fisherism Nuts? - MacroMania
• Why Can’t Trump Build Anything? - Paul Krugman
• Is the Xerox Corporation supervenient? - Understanding Society
• On Paying for a Progressive Agenda - Paul Krugman
• Measuring Connectedness between the Largest Banks - FRBSF
• The Birthplace of America’s New Progressive Era - Tyson & Mendonca
• How to pay for the Green New Deal - mainly macro
• "Unconventional" Fiscal Policies - EconoMonitor
• Making Music Together.  - Economic Principals
• Whence the Business Cycle? - Econbrowser

Links (2/15/19)

• Inflation: Stress-Testing the Phillips Curve - FRBSF
• Donald and the Deflationists - Paul Krugman
• The friendly extortioner takes it all - EurekAlert
• Economics After Neoliberalism - Naidu, Rodrik, Zucman
• Economics for Inclusive Prosperity (EfIP) - Dani Rodrik
• Democrats, Debt and Double Standards - Paul Krugman
• How Can We Tax Footloose Multinationals? - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Fiscal and Welfare Costs in a Time of Low Interest Rates - Olivier Blanchard
• How Much Does Heterodoxy Help Progressives? (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• What’s Wrong With Functional Finance? (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Trends in Hispanic Labor Force Participation - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• How do firms grow as they age? – Bank Underground
• What is a ‘policy hack’? - The Mandarin
• Economics of Medieval Guilds - Tim Taylor
• On the built-in instability of cryptocurrencies - VoxEU
• Do tax increases always contract economies? - Brookings
• Why Regulators Are Unprepared for the Next Financial Crisis - Tim Taylor

Links (2/11/19)

• The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics - Paul Krugman
• A Rant on Trump, Trade, and China... - Brad DeLong
• Olivier Blanchard on the Benefits and Costs of Public Debt - PIIE
• No trade deal can dictate our relationship with China - Larry Summers
• The Good Jobs Challenge - Dani Rodrik
• Debt Derangement Syndrome - J. Bradford DeLong
• The costs of public sector patronage - Microeconomic Insights
• The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - Liberty Street
• Common Ownership: Back to Basics - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• An Interview with Deidre McCloskey – The Politic
• The Nationalist Revival: Identify and Reclaim - Economic Principals
• Reining in shadow banking - VoxEU
• Causes of stagnation - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Large Excess Reserves and the Relationship between Money and Prices - FRB Richmond
• Some Puzzles About Asset Returns in the Long Run - Tim Taylor
• Where Are Manufacturing Jobs Coming Back? - Liberty Street Economics
• The role of trade in adaptation to climate change - VoxEU
• The deep roots of development - Growth Economics
• There Are Better Ways To Tax The Rich Than A Wealth Tax Or A 70 Percent Top Rate - Tax Policy Center
• Misinterpreting Tests, P-Values, Confidence Intervals & Power - Dave Giles
• Why Did Simon Kuznets Want to Leave Military Spending out of GDP? - Tim Taylor
• There They Go Again (And Now They’re Back!) - Uneasy Money
• Obstacles to full employment - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work – IMF Blog
• China's Slowdown and the World Economy - Brad Setser

Links (2/6/19)

• There They Go Again (And Now They’re Back!) - Uneasy Money
• No trade deal can dictate our relationship with China - Larry Summers
• The Empty Quarters of U.S. Politics - Paul Krugman
• The deep roots of development - Growth Economics
• Large Excess Reserves and the Relationship between Money and Prices - FRB Richmond
• Some Puzzles About Asset Returns in the Long Run - Tim Taylor
• Where Are Manufacturing Jobs Coming Back? - Liberty Street Economics
• The role of trade in adaptation to climate change - VoxEU
• There Are Better Ways To Tax The Rich Than A Wealth Tax Or A 70 Percent Top Rate - Tax Policy Center
• Misinterpreting Tests, P-Values, Confidence Intervals & Power - Dave Giles
• Why Did Simon Kuznets Want to Leave Military Spending out of GDP? - Tim Taylor
• Obstacles to full employment - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Cashing In: How to Make Negative Interest Rates Work – IMF Blog
• China's Slowdown and the World Economy - Brad Setser

Links (2/4/19)

• How Much Could Negative Rates Have Helped the Recovery? - FRBSF
• How Market Power Worsens Income Inequality - ProMarket
• Attack of the Fanatical Centrists - Paul Krugman
• The (Modest) Rebound in Manufacturing Jobs - Liberty Street Economics
• The Nonpuzzling Behavior of Median Inflation - NBER
• Is Inflation Just Around the Corner? The Phillips Curve and Global Inflationary Pressures - NBER
• FOMC Communication: What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Unemployment Fluctuations and Nominal GDP Targeting - Roberto M. Billi
• Artificial intelligence, algorithmic pricing, and collusion - VoxEU
• 58 Episodes of Hyperinflation (Venezuela is #23) - Tim Taylor
• The Interest Rate Lower Bound Trap and the ideas that keep us there - mainly macro
• Economic change and the social safety net: Are rural Americans still behind? - Equitable Growth
• The Puzzle of the US Productivity Slowdown - Tim Taylor
• Winter 2019 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online - Tim Taylor
• Liquidity and Exchange Rates: An Empirical Investigation - Econbrowser
• The ideas of Harold Demsetz, 1930-2019 - VoxEU
• Metrics Monday: Recoding Dummy Variables - Marc F. Bellemare
• The interaction of household finances and unconventional fiscal policy - VoxEU