Economist's View

Links (3/30/19)

• The Incredible Shrinking Trump Boom - Paul Krugman
• Worst-case deadweight loss: Theory and implications - VoxEU
• The Revolution Need Not Be Automated - Acemoglu & Restrepo
• Some US Social Indicators Since 1960 - Tim Taylor
• RCTs in the long run - VoxEU
• Was the Stock-Market Boom Predictable? - Robert J. Shiller
• Modern Monetary Theory Makes Sense, Up to a Point - Robert Shiller
• G.O.P. Cruelty Is a Pre-existing Condition - Paul Krugman
• Republicans Really Hate Healthcare - Paul Krugman
• The income gap, growing - EurekAlert
• Global Shocks and the U.S. Economy - Richard Clarida
• Automation perpetuates the red-blue divide - Brookings
• Arthur Burns and How Things Fell Apart in the 1970s - Uneasy Money
• Francis Fukuyama against mainstream economics - Branko Milanovic
• Can Undergraduates Be Taught to Think Like Economists? - Tim Taylor
• Immigration, inequality and intergenerational mobility in the US - VoxEU
• Is the ZLB an economic or legal constraint? - MacroMania
• Monetary policy and the labour share - VoxEU
• When Tax Drives the Trade Data - Brad Setser
• Which exchange rate regime? - EconoMonitor

Links (3/24/19)

• Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test - Paul Krugman
• The Fed Board Unmoored - J. Bradford DeLong
• Memo to Senate: Just Say No (to Moore) - Greg Mankiw
• Climate Change and the Federal Reserve - FRBSF
• What Did Gutenberg's Printing Press Actually Change? - Tim Taylor
• Fed Needs to Get With The Program - Tim Duy
• A Hero of the Revolution - Economic Principals
• China's Incomplete Macroeconomic Adjustment  - Brad Setser
• Big Data in Dynamic Predictive Modeling - No Hesitations
• James Buchanan Calling the Kettle Black - Uneasy Money
• Women’s liberation as a financial innovation - VoxEU
• Optimal Monetary Policy for the Masses - Fed in Print
• Capital Flows in a World of Low Interest Rates - Capital Ebbs and Flows
• In Honor of Alan Krueger - Supply-Side Liberal
• The current economy and the outlook - FRBSF

Links (3/21/19)

• Calling time on 'statistical significance' in science research - EurekAlert
• Work of the past, work of the future - VoxEU
• Holy Voodoo, Batman! - Paul Krugman
• Raising the Curtain: Trade and Empire - Brad DeLong
• Six Migrants and Their Descendants Who Made History - Brad DeLong
• The Disjunction Between Production and Distribution - Brad DeLong
• Monetary policy in times of uncertainty - VoxEU
• When the dismal science is getting you down - Women in Economics at Berkeley
• The Fall in China's Current Account Surplus Was Not Replicated Across Asia - Brad Setser
• Alan Krueger helped make life better for millions who will never know his name - Larry Summers
• Responding to some of the critiques of our paper on secular stagnation and fiscal policy - Larry Summers
• The Remarkable Renaissance is US Fossil Fuel Production - Tim Taylor
• A Theory of Housing Demand Shocks - Fed in Print
• Reentry from Out of the Labor Market - Tim Taylor
• Mourning the Loss of Alan Krueger - Paul Krugman

Links (3/18/19)

• Women in Economics Report Rampant Sexual Assault and Bias - The New York Times
• Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Dies at 58 - The New York Times
• The loss of a great economist and a great man - Jared Bernstein
• Capitalism Needs Elizabeth Warren - The New York Times
• How Monetary Policy Shaped the Housing Boom - NBER
• The deep roots of development - Growth Economics
• Austerity is Defunct - Economic Principals
• Introductory Econ Textbooks: A Different Take on the Issues - EconoSpeak
• Central bank digital currencies and private banks - VoxEU
• Neyman-Pearson Classification - No Hesitations

Links (3/15/19)

• Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages - Paul Krugman
• The Fed Should Buy Recession Insurance - J. Bradford DeLong
• You Never Know When a Recession Will Sneak Up on You - Austan Goolsbee
• Some Peculiarities of Labor Markets: Is Antitrust an Answer? - Tim Taylor
• China’s Still-Too-High Savings Makes China 2025 a Bigger Global Risk - Brad Setser
• The Dangerous Absurdity of America’s Trade Wars - Jeffrey D. Sachs
• The incentives of centralized school admissions systems - Microeconomic Insights
• The Chicago Booth Survey on MMT - MacroMania
• Forecasting After an Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation - Dave Giles
• What’s Wrong with Contemporary Capitalism? - Angus Deaton
• Modern Monetary Theory - IGM Forum

Links (3/12/19)

• The Case for a Bold Economics - Dani Rodrik
• The 2020 (US) Recession ~ Antonio Fatas
• To love Europe is to change it - Thomas Piketty
• Our Misplaced Fear of Job-Stealing Robots - Stanford
• Market Concentration Is Threatening the US Economy - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Minorities bear disproportionate burden from air pollution - EurekAlert
• Household credit cycles and financial crises - VoxEU
• The cash-flow effect of monetary policy – Bank Underground
• Reducing poverty is a matter of political will - Montreal Gazette
• Bank networks and systemic risk in the Great Depression - VoxEU
• A Recipe Book for Creating Structural Change - Economic Principals
• Monetary Policy: Normalization and the Road Ahead - Jerome Powell
• Firm financing after the Global Crisis - VoxEU
• Sustainable deficits - MacroMania

Links (3/8/19)

• Tariff Man Has Become Deficit Man - Paul Krugman
• Lying Liar Kevin Hassett Lies Again... - Brad DeLong
• Why diversity in economics? - Women in Economics at Berkeley
• Is the German Debt Brake the worst fiscal rule ever? - mainly macro
• Why Economics Must Get Broader Before It Gets Better - Mohamed A. El-Erian
• The left’s embrace of modern monetary theory is a recipe for disaster - Larry Summers
• On "On Falling Neutral Real Rates, Fiscal Policy, and the Risk of Secular Stagnation - Brad DeLong
• What Would a Deal that Tries to Close the Bilateral Deficit Need to Look Like? - Brad Setser
• What Is Behind the Persistence of the Racial Wealth Gap? - FRB Cleveland
• America the Cowardly Bully - Paul Krugman
• Tax evasion and inequality - Microeconomic Insights
• The Persistence of Financial Distress - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Forecasting From a Regression with a Square Root Dependent Variable - Dave Giles
• Regulators Move to Ease Post-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street - The New York Times
• Is increasing workers' bargaining power a way of raising real wages? - mainly macro
• The Economic Outlook: The ‘New Normal’ Is Now - John Williams
• Significance Testing as a Noise Amplifier - No Hesitations
• The Morandi Bridge collapse and regulatory capture - Understanding Society
• X Factor: Hispanic Women Drive the Labor-Force Comeback - macroblog
• When breaking up makes no sense – Digitopoly
• Location and competition - EurekAlert
• The Neutral Rate of Interest - Dallasfed.org
• The impact of population ageing on monetary policy - VoxEU
• Firm's expectations of inflation matter: New evidence - VoxEU
• The noise in stock prices matters for the real economy - VoxEU

Links (3/4/19)

• The “Biggest Puzzle in Economics”: Why the “Superstar Economy” Lacks Any Actual Superstars - ProMarket
• Trade war results in substantial losses for US and other countries - EurekAlert
• Trump, Trade and the Advantage of Autocrats - Paul Krugman
• How Goes the Trade War? - Paul Krugman
• Coping with volatile labor markets - FRB Minneapolis
• Modeling Financial Crises - FRBSF
• The long expansion continues - Econbrowser
• Modern Monetary Nonsense - Kenneth Rogoff
• MMT streetfighting - interfluidity
• Three levels of controversy over MMT - interfluidity
• Running on MMT (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• When the Interests of Monopolists and Authoritarians Coalesce - ProMarket
• There are many unemployment rates for any r* - Roger E. A. Farmer
• The 1% vs the 0.1% - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Socialism and the Self-Made Woman - Paul Krugman
• We need stronger trade unions and corporate accountability. - Alice Evans
• Empiricism Alone Won't Save Us - Marshall Steinbaum
• U.S. Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy - Richard Clarida
• Global Trends in Interest Rates - Liberty Street Economics
• Stark black-white divide in wages is widening further  - Economic Policy Institute
• Slow recoveries through fiscal austerity - VoxEU
• The Sensitivity of Long-Term Interest Rates: A Tale of Two Frequencies - Liberty Street Economics