Economist's View

Links (4/27/19)

• Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron - Joseph Stiglitz
• The Great Republican Abdication - Paul Krugman
• Where Do Good Jobs Come From? - Daron Acemoglu
• Further Thinking on the Costs and Benefits of Deficits - Furman and Summers
• When Did the Blacksmiths Disappear? - Tim Taylor
• Views on the minimum wage show economics to be an inexact science - mainly macro
• Has the U.S. economy stagnated because its work force aged? - FRB Minneapolis
• Restoring Antimonopoly Through Bright-Line Rules - ProMarket
• Survival of the Wrongest - Paul Krugman
• Is the Fed's Floor System Beginning to Fold? - Macro Musings
• Least Squares Is But One Approach to Linear Regression - Marc F. Bellemare
• Recursions for the Moments of Some Discrete Distributions - Dave Giles
• Armpits, White Ghettos and Contempt - Paul Krugman
• Communicating Monetary Policy Uncertainty - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Economic geography bites back - Brookings
• What explains occupational licensing? - Brookings
• Shadows and lights of globalization - Branko Milanovic
• Are broken promises an antitrust violation? – Digitopoly
• Searching for Stimulus - Capital Ebbs and Flows

Links (4/18/19)

• The Captain Swing Riots; Workers and Threshing Machines in the 1830s - Tim Taylor
• Shocks and labour cost adjustment – Bank Underground
• US Firms Are Less Dynamic Than They Used To Be - PIIE
• FedViews - FRBSF
• Is Low Inflation Really a Mystery? - Macro Musings
• Modern monetary theory: the dose makes the poison - Social Europe
• U.S. Economy: Fed Needs to Start Fighting the Next Recession Now - Bloomberg
• Changing policy rule parameters - FRB Cleveland
• The Evolution of the FOMC’s Explicit Inflation Target - FRBSF
• Shocking economics - EurekAlert
• When US Market Access is No Longer a Trump Card - Tim Taylor
• US achievement gaps hold steady in the face of substantial policy initiatives - VoxEU
• Qualifying for the Fed - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Central Bank Independence Faces Another Test - Economic Principals
• The Portfolio Theory of Inflation (and policy effectiveness) - Biagio Bossone
• Broad-spectrum policies - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Replacing the Phillips Curve: I showed you my macro model. Now show me your macro model - Roger E. A. Farmer

Links (4/12/19)

• Purity vs. Pragmatism, Environment vs. Health - Paul Krugman
• Bad News for IV Estimation - No Hesitations
• Keep the Federal Reserve I Love Alive - Greg Mankiw
• Peaceful Coexistence 2.0 - Dani Rodrik
• The great disinflation in emerging and developing economies - VoxEU
• Changes Are Coming to the Fed's Monetary Policy Strategy - PIIE
• Residual Seasonality in GDP Growth Remains after Latest BEA Improvements - FRB Cleveland
• U.S. Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy - Richard H. Clarida
• Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee, March 19-20, 2019 - Federal Reserve Board
• What’s Wrong With Modern Money Theory (MMT): A Critical Primer - Thomas Palley

Links (4/9/19)

• Why Does Trump Want to Debase the Fed? - Paul Krugman
• Trump’s Most Worrisome Legacy - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Interview of R. Preston McAfee - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Have the Indentification Police Become Overly Intrusive? - Tim Taylor
• Rethinking the Phillips Curve: Inflation May Rise Modestly Next Year - PIIE
• Does the Fed Know More about the Economy? - FRBSF
• A Permutation Test Regression Example - Dave Giles
• Identification via the ZLB and More - No Hesitations
• Austerity caused Brexit - VoxEU

Links (4/5/19)

• Donald Trump Is Trying to Kill You - Paul Krugman
• “Economics Now Points Away From the Laissez-Faire Approach” - ProMarket
• Ten Years Later: Reflections on the 2008–09 Financial Crisis - Larry Summers
• Examining an MMT model in detail - Noahpinion
• Why rent matters - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Moving Macroeconomic Analysis beyond Business Cycles - FRB Richmond
• Local fiscal multipliers and spillovers in the US - VoxEU
• Inequality of opportunity, income inequality, and economic growth - VoxEU
• Opinion | Republican Health Care Lying Syndrome - Paul Krugman
• Greenspan and Wooldridge Argue the Embrace of Capitalism Is the Key... - Brad DeLong
• How do American families spend food benefits? - Microeconomic Insights
• Fair, comprehensive tax reform is the right path forward - Larry Summers
• A broader tax base that would raise more money - Larry Summers
• Elizabeth Warren’s Big Ideas on Big Tech - Kenneth Rogoff
• Mathematician, heal thyself - Magic, maths and money
• The Keynesian Growth Approach to Macroeconomic Policy and Productivity - Liberty Street
• Dot-ology: What can we learn from the dot plot? - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• When In Doubt, Standardize - Marc F. Bellemare
• Public debt through the ages - VoxEU
• Interest Rates and Money Growth; Two Types of Central Bank - Nick Rowe