Economist's View

Links (1/15/19)

• Will China’s Economy Hit a Great Wall? - Paul Krugman
• Disruption, Concentration, and the New Economy - Raghuram Rajan
• The Flynn Effect (Rising IQ Scores Over Time) Reverses - Tim Taylor
• Bad Precedent - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• 1789, the return of the debt - Thomas Piketty
• Front-Door Criterion Follow-Up - Marc F. Bellemare
• How Much Value Was Destroyed by the Lehman Bankruptcy? - Liberty Street
• In Conversation with Atif Mian - Equitable Growth
• Why deficits are sustainable and inflation has a life of its own - Roger Farmer
• Does Ultra-Low Unemployment Spur Rapid Wage Growth? - FRBSF
• What U.S. Government Shutdown Means for Economic Data - Washington Post
• Border walls - VoxEU
• The future of work - Economic Principals
• Machine Learning & Econometrics - Dave Giles
• Should we worry about temporarily raising government debt? - mainly macro

Links (1/11/19)

• Trump’s Big Libertarian Experiment - Paul Krugman
• Oceans Are Warming Faster Than Predicted - Scientific American
• The effect of machine learning on credit markets - VoxEU
• When is more competition bad? - MacroMania
• Time for China, Germany, the Netherlands, and Korea to Step Up - Brad Setser
• The deep roots of development - Part 2 - Growth Economics
• Monetary Policy Outlook for 2019 - Richard Clarida
• Inequality in the joint distribution of consumption and time use - VoxEU
• What is the just pay? - Branko Milanovic
• Modern Monetary Theory Doesn’t Make Single-payer Any Easier - Josh Barro
• The research university - Understanding Society
• A more thorough analysis of marijuana use and homicide - Incidental Economist
• Social Security, on sure enough footing: Forget Republican fearmongering - NY Daily News
• Climate change: Uncertainty no excuse for inaction - FRB Minneapolis
• The Left’s Choice - Dani Rodrik
• Why Haven't Exports of Manufactures Kept Pace with China's Growth? - Brad Setser
• Bias in cable news - Microeconomic Insights
• How American Poverty Became “Fake News” - Angus Deaton
• Why Economic History? - Brad DeLong
• Interview: Prof. Ashoka Mody, Princeton University - AceMaxx
• How Much Do We Spend on Imports? - FRBSF
• Elizabeth Warren and Her Party of Ideas - Paul Krugman
• The Greatest Anticompetitive Threat of Our Time - ProMarket

Links (1/7/19)

• Be prepared: A recession is significantly likely in the next two years - Larry Summers
• What Will Cause the Next US Recession? - J. Bradford DeLong
• From Yellow Vests to the Green New Deal - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• (Econometrics) Papers of the Moment - No Hesitations
• Using the Front-Door Criterion to Estimate Causal Effects - Marc F. Bellemare
• Make Benefit-Cost Analysis Meaningful - The Regulatory Review
• Can We Minimize Econogenic Outcomes? - EconoSpeak
• The return on information technology - VoxEU
• Global Networks and Financial Instability - Capital Ebbs and Flows
• When Alan Greenspan Worried about Overly Large Budget Surpluses - Tim Taylor
• “It's Crucial to Break Up Facebook” - ProMarket
• Central Bankers’ Fiscal Constraints - Kenneth Rogoff
• The Economics of Soaking the Rich - Paul Krugman
• Who’s Afraid of the Budget Deficit? - Paul Krugman
• The Impact of Import Tariffs on U.S. Domestic Prices - Liberty Street Economics
• We May Well Not Be at Full Employment Yet... - Brad DeLong
• Seven questions for Janet Yellen on financial stability - Brookings
• How Slogans Curate Public Opinion: Hard - Public Integrity
• Intergenerational mobility in the US - VoxEU
• Technological progress may be changing what we learn and how we trade - VoxEU
• The Fed and the New Year - Stephen Williamson
• What does the ‘Stupid Woman’ saga tell us about the media - mainly macro
• The Trump Tax Cut: Even Worse Than You’ve Heard - Paul Krugman
• Hope for a Green New Year - Paul Krugman
• The deep roots of development - Growth Economics

Links (12/31/18)

• Joan Robinson on Poets, Mathematicians, Economists, and Adam Smith - Tim Taylor
• Bad Faith, Pathos and G.O.P. Economics - Paul Krugman
• Trump vs. the Economy - Nouriel Roubini
• Why We Have Newspapers, Call-in Shows, Reading Clubs, and Sometimes Hang around in Barbershops - Economic Principals
• Economic Growth and Climate Change: Mistaking an Output Variable for an Instrument - EconoSpeak
• Marx for me (and hopefully for others too) - Branko Milanovic
• Don't Trust the Markets - Roger E. A. Farmer
• How Inequality Undermines Economic Performance - Michael Spence
• No. The Fed Was Wrong to Raise Interest Rates - Brad DeLong
• The Ghost of Trump Chaos Future - Paul Krugman
• Using Sentiment and Momentum to Predict Stock Returns - FRBSF
• Invisible geniuses: The advancement of the knowledge frontier- VoxEU
• The Case for a Mixed Economy - Paul Krugman
• The decline of African-American and Hispanic wealth since the Great Recession - VoxEU
• FedViews - FRBSF
• Mortgages, cash-flow shocks and local employment - Bank of England
• On the Accuracy of Estimating the Inflation Rate: Marty Feldstein as Dr. Pangloss - John Komlos
• Hard-Money Men, Suddenly Going Soft - Paul Krugman
• The Fed’s Risky Plan to Boost Unemployment - Narayana Kocherlakota
• Rethinking collective action and U.S. labor laws in a monopsonist economy - Equitable Growth
• The surprising disparity between the Chinese economy and Chinese economists - VoxEU
• Can the Earned Income Tax Credit (Mostly) Pay for Itself? - Tim Taylor
• Manufacturing decline has hurt black Americans more - VoxEU
• Study offers new view of how cartels work - MIT News
• Tragedy of the Commons: 50 Years Later - Tim Taylor
• Women in economics: Stalled progress - VoxEU

Links (12/17/18)

Couple of links:

• Demography, unemployment, and automation - VoxEU
• Market Power or Just Scale Economies? - ProMarket
• Neoliberalism as Structure and Ideology - EconoSpeak
• How the Press Covered the Panic of 2008 - Economic Principals
• How low is low for Chinese GDP growth? ~ Antonio Fatas
• Micro-responses to shocks: Pricing, promotion, and entry - VoxEU
• The evolving scope and content of central bank speeches - VoxEU
• DeLong's Principles Of Neoliberalism - Brad DeLong
• Rah Rah Economics - EconoSpeak
• Language as a self-regulating system - Language Log
• Credit booms and information depletion - VoxEU
• Manhood, Moola, McConnell and Trumpism - Paul Krugman
• The Rise of Knowledge Economics - Scientific American
• How Close is the Fed to a Corridor System? - David Beckworth
• In conversation with Karen Dynan - Equitable Growth
• News does explain yield curve changes - VoxEU
• Credit mechanics: A precursor to the current money supply debate - VoxEU
• The Great American Tax Heist Turns One - J. Bradford DeLong
• When bad government matters - Stumbling and Mumbling
• The mind of government - Understanding Society
• Monetary Policy under Data Uncertainty - Econbrowser
• Why Hasn't China Needed to Intervene More This Year? - Brad Seeser
• My Two Cents on the “Yellow Vests” Movement - Gloomy European Economist
• Bonuses are up $0.02 since the GOP tax cuts passed - Economic Policy Institute
• Two Differences Between a Clinton Administration and a Trump Administration... - Brad DeLong
• The Diminution of Welfare as an Anti-Poverty Tool - Tim Taylor
• Lisa Cook interview - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• The War on Huawei - Jeffrey D. Sachs
• « Yellow vests » and tax justice - Thomas Piketty
• The G.O.P. Goes Full Authoritarian - Paul Krugman
• The Inequality Paradox: Rising Inequalities Nationally, Diminishing Inequality Worldwide - ProMarket
• Manifesto for the democratisation of Europe - Thomas Piketty
• On pronoun typology and economic measures - Language Log
• Do Opioids Slow Return to Work after Injuries? - FRBSF
• Navigating in Cloudy Skies - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Understanding the Importance of Monopsony Power in the U.S. Labor Market - Brad DeLong
• Building Capacity for Economic Analysis at Independent Agencies - Regulatory Review
• Perspective on the stock market - Jim Hamilton
• Markets, banks, and shadow banks - VoxEU

Links (12/7/18)

• The Housing Boom Is Already Gigantic. How Long Can It Last? - Robert Shiller
• The Art of the Imaginary Deal - Paul Krugman
• Measuring monetary policy shocks - Jim Hamilton
• Can anything hold back China’s economy? - Larry Summers
• The USMCA Is a Downgrade for North America - PIIE
• Have Yield Curve Inversions Become More Likely? - FRB Richmond
• Optimal timing of unemployment benefits:  - Microeconomic Insights
• Explaining S=I: Inventories vs Adding up Individuals - Nick Rowe
• The macroeconomic benefits of gender diversity - Lagarde and Ostry
• Just Released: Interactive R-star Charts - Liberty Street Economics
• Helping the left behind: its (economic) geography, stupid - mainly macro
• U.S. Interest Rates  in Emerging Market Economies - Capital Ebbs and Flows
• Free Software without a Free Lunch or Free Beer – Digitopoly
• Abenomics Is Working, Don't Stop Now - PIIE
• Working More for Less - MacroMania
• Why inequality matters? - Branko Milanovic
• Blind to luck - Stumbling and Mumbling

Links (12/4/18)

I am in Kenya (was teaching time-series econometrics in Nairobi) and got a bit behind. For pictures of Maasai Mara, Nairobi, and other stuff, see here:

• Climate Denial Was the Crucible for Trumpism - Paul Krugman
• Dual Regression and Prediction - No Hesitations
• Inheritance taxation and wealth effects on the labour supply of heirs - VoxEU
• Is corruption a social thing? - Understanding Society
• The Fed's Policy Implementation Framework - PIIE
• How to End Venezuela’s Nightmare - Ricardo Hausmann
• Beyond GDP - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Does the Floor System Discourage Bank Lending? - MacroMania
• A Review of the Fed’s Unconventional Monetary Policy - FRBSF
• What game theory tells us about politics and society - MIT News
• E Pluribus Unum: single vs. multiple point of entry resolution - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• The Great Macro Divergence - Jean Pisani-Ferry
• When MAGA Fantasy Meets Rust Belt Reality - Paul Krugman
• Brexit, Borders, and the Bank of England (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Per capita income, consumption patterns, and carbon dioxide emissions - VoxEU
• State-dependent effects of monetary policy - VoxEU
• Modeling the social - Understanding Society
• Experts and Elites - mainly macro
• A Worldly Philosopher (or Two) at 100 - Economic Principals
• What are the drivers of TFP growth? An empirical assessment - Econbrowser
• Exercising government's will - Understanding Society
• Snapshots of Falling US Mobility - Tim Taylor
• Antitrust in a Changing Economy and Changing Economics - ProMarket
• Yes, the Octopus Is Smart as Heck. But Why? - The New York Times
• US Treasury auctions: measuring the effectiveness of primary markets for government securities - Microeconomic Insights
• Cryptocurrency and Central Bank E-Money - macroblog
• Freelance Economy Is Both Old and Young, Big and Small - Justin Fox
• Growth, disease, and the personal touch - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• So…Tired…of…Winning (Trade Deficit Edition) - Econbrowser

Links (11/28/18)

• Global Rebalancing - Antonio Fatas
• Data Dependence and U.S. Monetary Policy - Richard Clarida
• Explaining Price Markups During the Great Recession - St. Louis Fed
• Some Alternative Baskets of Goods for Measuring Inflation - Tim Taylor
• Why Human Chess Survives - Kenneth Rogoff
• The Fed's Framework for Monitoring Financial Stability - Jerome Powell
• Janet Yellen "Not Tall Enough" - EconoSpeak
• The Big Con: Reassessing the ‘Great’ Recession and its ‘fix’ - VoxEU
• Strategic vs parametric thinking - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Flying More Efficiently - Stochastic Trend
• The Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift: More Recent Evidence - Liberty Street
• Is the United States Relying on Foreign Investors to Fund Its Larger Budget Deficit? - Liberty Street

Links (11/25/18)

• How Democrats Can Deliver on Health Care - Paul Krugman
• Corporate Giants, Hurting the Economy - The New York Times
• The Monopolization of America - The New York Times
• Squanto --- A Sad Thanksgiving Tale - EconoSpeak
• Time is God’s Way - Economic Principals
• The changing nature of work - VoxEU
• Silent Inflation - Robert J. Shiller

Links (11/21/18)

• The New Economy and the Trump Rump - Paul Krugman
• Government Can Do More to Support Science and Innovation - Paul Romer
• Trump’s Tariffs Haven’t Really Transformed Trade. Yet. - Justin Wolfers
• Recalculating GDP for the Facebook age - Financial Times
• Sweden’s Push to Get Rid of Cash Has Some Saying, ‘Not So Fast’ - NYTimes
• An Interview with Tyler Cowen and Paul Krugman - YouTube
• Catastrophe Bonds: A Primer - Tim Taylor
• The disappointing impact of encouraging students to study more - VoxEU
• Have Online Sales and Self-Employment Changed the Phillips Curve? - Dallas Fed

Links (11/19/18)

• Why Was Trump’s Tax Cut a Fizzle? - Paul Krugman
• Review of "Capitalism in America: A History"  - Brad DeLong
• The Tragedy of the Commons, Revisited - Scientific American
• Americans aren’t moving to economic opportunity - Brookings
• Which American industries are most in danger of monopoly? - The Economist
• Solow on Friedman's 1968 Presidential Address and the Medium Run - Tim Taylor
• How the FTC Protects Strong Employers and Targets Weak Workers - ProMarket
• The Labor Force Participation Rate Trend and Its Projections - FRBSF
• From Basel to the Volcker Rule: A FinReg Glossary - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Job-matching technologies can build a better labor market - Equitable Growth
• How Adam Smith proposed to have his cake and eat it too - Branko Milanovic
• The real effects of mitigating counterparty risk - VoxEU
• Nearest-Neighbor Prediction - No Hesitations
• China’s Naturally Triangular Trade… - Brad Setser

 

Links (11/15/18)

• The Tax Cut and the Balance of Payments (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Obesity and Globalization: Evidence from Mexico - ProMarket
• Why Aren’t U.S. Workers Working? - FRBSF
• Digital money and payments ~ Antonio Fatas
• FedViews: November 9, 2018 - FRBSF
• Superstar Firms and Cities - Tim Taylor
• Powell Says Fed Deserves Credit for Economic Growth - The New York Times
• Ten Years after the Crisis, Is the Banking System Safer? - Liberty Street Economics
• More Sandwiches, Anyone? - Econometrics Beat
• When the Next Recession Hits: A User’s Guide for Future QE - PIIE

Links (11/13/18)

• Truth and Virtue in the Age of Trump - Paul Krugman
• « Le Monde » and the billionaires - Thomas Piketty
• Beer, & economic determinism - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services - Lael Brainard
• Differing Effects of the Business Cycle on Small and Large Banks - FRB Richmond
• Work Requirements for Cash Assistance Fueled Rise in Deep Poverty - CBPP
• Automation and job displacement in emerging markets - VoxEU
• Paul Romer Is a Fount of Knowledge - Economic Principals
• Global trends in interest rates - VoxEU
• U.S. Monetary Policy Spillovers - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• What is happening with global inequality? - Branko Milanovic
• The Death of Shame - EconoSpeak
• Aggregating labour supply elasticities - VoxEU
• The minimum wage, income tax credits, and criminal recidivism - VoxEU
• Origins and Challenges of a Strong Dollar - Econbrowser

Links (11/9/18)

• Reclaiming Community - Dani Rodrik
• Populism's Common Denominator - Barry Eichengreen
• The roots of sluggish productivity - EurekAlert
• What the Hell Happened to Brazil? (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Real America Versus Senate America - Paul Krugman
• Stabilization policy with ignorance - Stumbling and Mumbling
• The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, One Year Later - Tim Taylor
• When low-income families can meet their basic needs, children are healthier - EurekAlert

Links (11/7/18)

• The Global Impact of a Chinese Recession - Kenneth Rogoff
• The Lies We Were Told - mainly macro
• Central bank balance sheets and monetary policy - VoxEU
• China Should Import More - Brad Setser
• Why Quantitative Easing Will Return - Tim Taylor
• Can American Democracy Come Back? - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Give Gig Economy Workers Equity? The S.E.C. is Considering It - NYTimes
• Mapping the childhood roots of social mobility - VoxEU
• Last Exit Off the Road to Autocracy - Paul Krugman
• Fed bashing is a fool’s game - Larry Summers
• Evidence on the Minimum Wage Impact in Minnesota vs. Wisconsin - Econbrowser
• Four policies to help the middle class, and how to pay for them - Brookings
• Why the FTC Should Focus on Labor Monopsony - ProMarket

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

Links (10/31/18)

• How Economic Inequality Inflicts Real Biological Harm - Scientific American
• The Great Center-Right Delusion - Paul Krugman
• Kinlessness - Timothy Taylor
• The evolution of antitrust enforcement in the United States - Equitable Growth
• The Future of Economic Convergence - Simon Johnson
• Halloween, finance and ideology - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Freelancing’s Fitful Rise - Bloomberg
• Supplemental issue honors the life and scholarship of Nobel Laureate Gary S. Becker - EurekAlert
• Too many fishers in the sea: The economic ceiling of artisanal fisheries - EurekAlert
• Uncovered interest rate parity and purchasing power parity revisited - VoxEU
• The Governance of Solar Geoengineering Deployment - Robert Stavins
• The 2018 Globie: “Crashed” - Capital Ebbs and Flows
• Where Will the Yuan Go Next? China's Big Choice - Brad Setser
• Are Negative Interest Rates Expansionary? A Review of Eggertsson et al. (2017) - Douglas L. Campbell
• Hate is on the Ballot Next Week - Paul Krugman
• Expansions Don't Die of Old Age - No Hesitations
• The Science of Inequality - Scientific American
• Income Inequality's Most Disturbing Side Effect: Homicide - Scientific American
• What really causes America’s chronic deficit in international trade - R. B. Myerson
• Central Banks No Longer Cushion Economies and Markets - Bloomberg
• A Jumping-Off Point - Economic Principals
• Taking the **Sock** out of FSOC - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Why should someone who is anti-austerity care about debt - mainly macro
• Red-Hot Economy? Women Aren’t Convinced - The New York Times
• On Maximizing Employment, a Case for Caution - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Rent Control Returns: Thoughts and Evidence - Tim Taylor
• Health Care, Hatred and Lies - Paul Krugman
• You’ve Become Rich. That Doesn’t Mean You’re Great at Everything. - The New York Times
• Strong GDP growth, weak fundamentals - Econbrowser
• The impact of protection on trade: lessons from Britain’s 1930s policy shift - Microeconomic Insights
• Outlook for the U.S. Economy and Monetary Policy - Richard H. Clarida
• Archives of two giants of economics donated to UChicago Library - UChicago News

Links (10/24/18)

• The impact of the Clean Water Act - VoxEU
• Losing it: The economics and politics of migration - VoxEU
• The Neutral Rate of Interest - Dallasfed.org
• What’s Wrong With the 2 Percent Inflation Target - Paul Volcker
• Identifying shocks via time-varying volatility - Fed in Print
• The Remarkable Fall in Global Poverty - Tim Taylor
• Killer Politicians - Jeffrey D. Sachs
• How Economic Inequality Harms the Environment - Scientific American
• America’s Plutocrats Are Winning - Jeffrey D. Sachs
• America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Deepening - Laura Tyson & Lenny Mendonca
• Sexual harassment in academic contexts - Understanding Society
• Does Learning More at University Actually Pay Off in the Job Market? - ProMarket
• Decoupling of emissions and incomes: It’s happening - VoxEU
• Housing expenditures and income inequality - VoxEU
• The Republican tax cut is a big, fat failure - The Washington Post

Links (10/22/18)

• Fiscal multipliers are larger when foreigners hold debt - VoxEU
• The financial mistakes of households and their social costs - VoxEU
• Central bank communication and the yield curve - VoxEU
• The ‘real’ illusion: How monetary factors matter in low-for-long rates- VoxEU
• William Nordhaus and the costs of climate change - VoxEU
• The American Economy Is Rigged - Joe Stiglitz
• You Can't Ignore the Influence of Big Business on Economic Policy - ProMarket
• The great decoupling - The Washington Post
• Notes on Global Convergence (Wonkish and Off-Point) - Paul Krugman
• Refining the “science” of political science - MIT News
• ‘Metrics Monday: Goodness of Fit with Panel Data in Stata - Marc F. Bellemare
• Summit for Diversity in Economics Recap: Celebrations and Reflections - Women in Economics at Berkeley
• System effects - Understanding Society
• Tax Reform and U.S. Effective Profit Taxes: From Low to Lower - Liberty Street Economics
• MMT and Labour’s fiscal rule - mainly macro
• Negative Nominal Interest Rates and Banking - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Could knowledge about Central banks impact households’ expectations? - Bank Underground
• Modeling Time-Variation Over the Business Cycle (1960-2017) - Econbrowser
• Yellen, Reichlin, and Rajan on the big questions facing central banks around the world - Brookings
• Natural rates and ‘starred’ variables: A conversation with Yellen, Reichlin, and Rajan - Brookings
• The Fed Knows What It's Doing. Relax. - Tim Duy
• Low-Carbon Macro - Bank Underground
• Meet the “Off-Shore Balancers” - Economic Principals
• More on Sticky Wages - Uneasy Money
• The Federal Reserve Is Raising Interest Rates Again for Probably All The Wrong Reasons - Brad DeLong
• Top 1.0 percent reaches highest wages ever—up 157 percent since 1979 - Economic Policy Institute
• Don’t Chase the Needles: An Optimistic Assessment of the Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy - Randal K. Quarles
• College financial aid: Equity and efficiency - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Asymmetric business-cycle risk and social insurance - VoxEU
• The secular decline in US employment over the past two decades - VoxEU
• FinTech and the Search for Full Stack Financial Inclusion - Lael Brainard

Links (10/16/18)

• E.P.A. to Disband a Key Scientific Review Panel on Air Pollution - The New York Times
• Donald and the Deadly Deniers - Paul Krugman
• How Trump Could Fatally Weaken the Dollar - The New York Times
• Is a Slowdown in Bank Lending a Bad Sign for the Economy? - The New York Times
• The impact of the US-China trade war on East Asia - VoxEU
• Martin Weitzman’s Contributions to Environmental Economics - Robert Stavins
• The Science of Inequality - Scientific American
• Brazil: the First Republic under threat - Le blog de Thomas Piketty
• With Liberty, Justice, and Money for All - Regulatory Review
• Liquidity Effects of Post-Crisis Regulatory Reform - Liberty Street Economics
• America’s Ongoing Civil War - Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Giving Up On Fighting Global Warming - EconoSpeak
• FedViews - FRBSF
• The Slope of the Yield Curve and the Near-Term Outlook - FRBSF
• Involution and growth - Growth Economics
• Intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status - VoxEU
• Restoring Science and Economics to EPA's Benefit Calculation - Regulatory Review
• Metrics Monday: Identification by Functional Form - Marc F. Bellemare
• Trump's Stimulus Trumps his Trade Policy - Brad Setser
• Assessing Housing Risk - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• A pound of flesh for touching the progress of science – Digitopoly
• The Big Blockchain Lie - Nouriel Roubini
• Self-Fulfilling Financial Crises - J. Bradford DeLong
• A Simple Lesson About Money and Models - Everyday Economist
• U.S. Saudi Trade - EconoSpeak
• Why is Labor Force Participation Falling for Prime-Age Males? - Tim Taylor
• New ideas about new ideas: Paul Romer, Nobel laureate - VoxEU
• How digital platforms reduce moral hazard - VoxEU
• The effectiveness of large-scale asset purchases - VoxEU
• A methodology for measuring the collaborative economy - VoxEU

Links (10/11/18)

• The Paranoid Style in G.O.P. Politics - Paul Krugman
• How we create and destroy growth: The 2018 Nobel laureates - VoxEU
• People vs. Money in America’s Midterm Elections - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Driving across the US gave me a different perspective on the economy - Larry Summers
• Development and Security - Brad DeLong
• The Dollar and its Discontents - Barry Eichengreen
• Fed Is Intent on Raising Rates Even If Economy Sours - Tim Duy
• What Happens When Regulatory Capital Is Marked to Market? - Liberty Street
• Why Do Banks Target ROE? - Liberty Street Economics
• Adam Smith's two economies - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Trump Puts Supply-Side Economics to Its Final Test - Bloomberg
• Inequality in and across Cities - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• The Nobel Committee Honors the Economics of Market Failure - The New Yorker
• Moving Toward 'Normal' U.S. Monetary Policy - John Williams
• Nobel Prizes in Economics, Awarded and Withheld - Peter Dorman
• Differences in citation patterns across journal tiers in economics - VoxEU
• Analyzing the Effects of CFPB Oversight - Liberty Street
• We must avoid a repeat of the financial crisis - Martin Wolf
• Crazy Rich Asia - Ken Rogoff
• The Refereeing Process in Economics Journals - Dave Giles
• Inequality in the Middle East - ProMarket

Links (10/8/18)

• Economic Growth v2 – Paul Romer
• Conditional Optimism: Technology and Climate – Paul Romer
• Economics Nobel 2018: William Nordhaus and Paul Romer - Tim Taylor
• William Nordhaus and why he won the Nobel Prize in economics - Marginal Revolution
• Why Paul Romer won the Nobel Prize in economics - Marginal Revolution
• A Nobel Prize for Breaking Through Hurdles Placed by Economists – Digitopoly
• Romer, Nordhaus Are Deserving Picks for Economics Nobel - Bloomberg
• How We Create and Destroy Growth: A Nobel for Romer and Nordhaus - A Fine Theorem
• How elite universities shape upward mobility - VoxEU
• The economic costs of a discriminatory ideology - VoxEU
• Can Investments Be Too Efficient? - Diane Coyle
• Will New Technologies Help or Harm Developing Countries? - Dani Rodrik
• The Fed Is Not Very Constrained by the Lower Bound on Nominal Interest Rates - NBER
• Overcoming Wealth Inequality by Capital Taxes that Finance Public Investment - NBER
• Inflation and Price Measurement: A Primer - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• The Continuing Dominance of the Dollar - Capital Ebbs and Flows
• Bankers’ liability and risk taking - VoxEU
• Black/White Racial Inequality: A Place-Based Look - Tim Taylor
• No One Told Greg Mankiw About the Great Recession - Dean Baker
• Surprising Truths About Trade Deficits - Greg Mankiw
• How the left stopped being a party of the working class - mainly macro
• Opinion | Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? - The New York Times

Links (10/5/18)

 

• Biggest US Export to China? Spending by Chinese Tourists - Tim Taylor
• Does Uber Kill? The Real Cost of Ride-sharing - ProMarket
• Explaining weak investment growth after the Great Recession - Econbrowser
• State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Access and Equity - CBPP
• A One-Question Quiz on the Poverty Trap - The New York Times
• EPA Moves to Scale Back Methane Rules - Regulatory Review
• Unemployment Falls to Lowest Level Since 1969 - Dean Baker
• Social mobility disaggregated - Understanding Society
• Women and monetary policy - VoxEU

 

links (10/3/18)

• How important was the financial panic as a cause of the Great Recession? - Brad DeLong
• When Information Flows Became Fast: The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph - Tim Taylor
• Energy Intensity, Growth, and Technical Change - Stochastic Trend
• Resolving 'Too Big to Fail' - Liberty Street Economics
• How to Fix Brazil's Economy - Otaviano Canuto
• The impacts of export taxes on agricultural trade - VoxEU
• A Shout-Out for The Replication Network - Dave Giles
• Central Bank Credibility Pays Off in Times of Stress - IMF Blog
• The Cost of Regulatory Capital - Liberty Street Economics
• Monetary Policy and Risk Management at a Time of Low Inflation and Low Unemployment - Jerome Powell

 

links (10/2/18)

 

• Is There Any Reason to Fear Low Interest Rates? - Brad DeLong
• The Fed's No Longer Guided by Concept of Neutral Rates - Tim Duy
• The Angry White Male Caucus - Paul Krugman
• I Created "The Bernank" on YouTube. And I Was Mostly Wrong. - NYTimes
• Bank performance under negative interest rates - VoxEU
• Publishing and Promotion in Economics: The Tyranny of the Top Five - NBER
• Differences in Citation Patterns across Journal Tiers in Economics - NBER
• Pressure to publish in top journals stifles creativity in economic research - UChicago News
• Elasticities and the Inverse Hyperbolic Sine Transformation - Marc F. Bellemare
• QE: A User's Guide - PIIE
• How Persistent Are the Effects of Sentiment Shocks? - FRBSF
• Don't be fooled: Working Americans are worse off under Trump - Robert Shapiro
• The Center Held in 2008 - Economic Principals

 

Links (9/30/18)

My computer died. I may have lost a few links (and doing this on an iPad is less than convenient)

• ’Normal' Monetary Policy in Words and Deeds - John Williams
• RCT's vs. RDD's - No Hesitations
• The Economic Future Isn’t What It Used to Be (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Fiscal Recklessness, 2018 Edition - Andrew Samwick
• Republicans Take the Hypocrite’s Oath - Paul Krugman
• Women much less likely to ask questions in academic seminars than men - EurekAlert
• There is more to the Gender Gap than the Partisan Divide – Paul Romer
• Tax cuts: The gift that keeps not giving - Brookings
• Three tariff lessons from US interwar history - VoxEU
• Trading places - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Links (9/26/18)

• Portability of Occupational Licenses? - Tim Taylor
• How Did China Manage its Currency Over the Summer? - Brad Setser
• The Party of No Ideas - Paul Krugman
• Leadership, Laughter and Tariffs - Paul Krugman
• Racism Drives Higher Costs for Historically Black Colleges in Bond Markets - ProMarket
• Protecting Workers Without Tariffs - Robert J. Shiller
• Market Share and Market Power - IGM Forum
• Independence is no disruption solution – Digitopoly
• Do Spectacular Earnings Justify Spectacular US Stock Prices? - Robert J. Shiller
• Underemployment in the US and Europe - VoxEU
• What is the yield curve forecasting? - MacroMania
• Pitfalls of a Reserves-only Narrow Bank - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• What Have We Learned Since Bagehot? - Economic Principals
• Hayekian communism - globalinequality
• 1½ Adam Smiths - globalinequality
• Steeper Versus Deeper (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Immigrant entrepreneurship in America - VoxEU
• Response to Bernanke - Dean Baker
• Bad Journalism, Bloomberg Style - Andrew Samwick
• Making Tariffs Corrupt Again - Paul Krugman
• Pursuers of Truth or Peddlers of Influence? - ProMarket
• A reply to Paul Krugman - Ben Bernanke

Links (9/20/18)

• A Smorgasbord Recession? (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Political Pressure on Central Banks - Carola Binder
• Three Sudden Stops and a Surge - Brad Setser
• Japan’s Successful Economic Model - Adair Turner
• The economic cost of repellent leadership - VoxEU
• Foreign expansion, competition, and bank risk - VoxEU
• Tax cuts have not led to bonuses, wage or compensation growth - EPI
• Reflections by Bernanke, Geithner and Paulson (Video) - Brookings
• Saving the Planet Doesn’t Mean Killing Economic Growth - Bloomberg
• Controlling My Heating Bill Using Bayesian Model Averaging - Dave Giles
• Communicating Academic Economics Ideas to the General Public - Mathew Kahn
• Growth, well-being: policy should not be based on GDP alone - Micro Insights
• How the sterling money markets dried up - Bank Underground
• Update on US Health Insurance Coverage - Tim Taylor
• The increasing faith in macroprudential policies - VoxEU
• Kavanaugh and the Politics of Bad Faith - Paul Krugman

Links (9/17/18)

• The Credit Crunch and the Great Recession (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Comments on monetary policy at the effective lower bound - Janet Yellen
• Why central banks should not be inflation nutters - VoxEU
• Can Trade Agreements Be a Friend to Labor? - Dani Rodrik
• What Do We Actually Know About the Economy? (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Central Banks Strike Back Against Political Interference - Bloomberg
• Economics Gets It Wrong Because Research Is Hard to Replicate - Bloomberg
• Ten Years Ago - Economic Principals
• Output Gaps and Robust Monetary Policy Rules - Roberto Billi
• Charting the Financial Crisis - Brookings
• Can codetermination help fix America’s wage problem? - Lane Kenworthy
• The Most Addictive Theorem in Applied Mathematics - Scientific American
• The Economist as Public Intellectual - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Interview with Chad Syverson - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Ten Year House Price Volatility - Richard Green
• Another lesson of the GFC unlearnt - mainly macro
• We’re Measuring the Economy All Wrong - The New York Times
• Crisis firefighters still uninterested in fire prevention - FT
• The Fed's Floor System: Sayonara? - Macro Musings
• Tax Cuts Are Costing the U.S. Treasury Money - Bloomberg
• Economic Security Programs Cut Poverty Nearly in Half Over Last 50 Years - CBPP
• What We Should Have Learned From the 2008 Financial Crisis - Reinhart and Reinhart
• Could A Coalition of the “Friends of Turkey” Ride to Turkey’s Financial Rescue? - Brad Setser

Links (9/13/18)

• Botching the Great Recession - Paul Krugman
• Fed Interest-Rate Debate Misses the Bigger Picture - Tim Duy
• The financial crisis and the foundations for macroeconomics - Larry Summers
• The Makings of a 2020 Recession and Financial Crisis - Roubini & Rosa
• An overdue look at the effects of monopoly distortion - Financial Times
• What Do We Mean by Neutral in Monetary Policy? - Lael Brainard
• How the brain decides what to do in the face of danger - EurekAlert
• Radical Markets: a review - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Rebelling Against the Clean Plate Club - Tim Taylor
• Financial panic and credit disruptions in the 2007-09 crisis - Ben Bernanke
• What’s Going On with the Economy? It’s the Stimulus, Stupid - John Cassidy
• Interview with Philip Jefferson - The Region
• SWF+UBD - interfluidity

Links (9/11/18)

• Trade, Inflation Targeting, and Central Bank Independence - PIIE
• The Stable-Coin Myth - Barry Eichengreen
• On the Debt Non-Spiral - Paul Krugman
• Parrots Barter Tokens for Food. - The New York Times
• Social-nativism, the Italian nightmare - Thomas Piketty
• Vaulting Workers Into the Middle Class With High Pay - Larry Summers
• The financial transmission of housing bubbles - VoxEU
• Is the Great Moderation back? ~ Antonio Fatas
• Opinion | Democrats Are Credible on Health Care - Paul Krugman
• The Fiscal Response to the Great Recession - Jason Furman
• Economists' statement in support of Atif Mian - Dani Rodrik
• Whither Labor Force Participation? - Liberty Street Economics
• What Should the Fed Own? - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Dollarize Argentina - John Cochrane
• The Intertemporal Keynesian Cross - NBER
• Monopsony and Employer Mis-optimization Explain Why Wages Bunch at Round Numbers - NBER
• Mapping the boom in nonbank mortgage lending—and understanding the risks - Brookings
• China's Belt and Road Initiative: Grand or Grandiose? - Tim Taylor
• The Prime-Age Workforce and Labor Market Polarization - FRBSF
• The Other Shoe - Economic Principals
• Doubts about wage-led growth - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Could Central Banks do More during the Crisis? - Gloomy European Economist
• Is Sweden failing on immigration? - Lane Kenworthy
• Subsidising growth: An argument for pro-business policies in emerging markets - VoxEU
• Meet The Four-Dimensional Numbers That Led to Modern Algebra - Wired

Links (9/7/18)

• What We Need to Fight the Next Financial Crisis - Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson
• Crash Time - Kenneth Rogoff
• Kavanaugh Will Kill the Constitution - Paul Krugman
• For Whom the Climate Bell Tolls - J. Bradford DeLong
• Final Thoughts on Secular Stagnation - Lawrence H. Summers
• Economy Adds 201,000 Jobs in August, Unemployment Steady at 3.9 Percent - Dean Baker
• Federal Reserve Policy Is Becoming Less Predictable - Tim Duy
• Why do we care about the labour share of income? - Nick Rowe
• Federal Reserve Is Sued, Accused of Limiting Competition - The New York Times
• The Euro At Twenty: Mody’s EuroTragedy - Capital Ebbs and Flows
• Global Financial Cycles and risk premiums - Bank Underground
• Workers with low levels of education haven’t recovered from the Great Recession - Brookings
• The Case for a US Public Banking Option - Thomas Herndon & Mark Paul
• Correcting the CEA’s corrections re real wage growth. - Jared Bernstein
• What Does Quantum Theory Actually Tell Us about Reality? - Scientific American
• How Likely Is a Return to the Zero Lower Bound? - FRB Richmond
• Chinese imports and domestic employment across 18 OECD countries - VoxEU

Links (9/5/18)

• Google's New Dataset Search Tool - No Hesitations
• Beyond Secular Stagnation - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Tail Risks - Brad DeLong
• Income inequality in France - VoxEU
• Secular Stagnation Revisited - Roger E.A. Farmer
• Making big data work for economics - Bank Underground
• Why Do We Still Read Adam Smith? - Economic Principals
• Economists Gear Up to Challenge the Monopolies - Noah Smith
• How US Multinationals Shifting Income to Foreign Countries Reduces Measured GDP - Tim Taylor
• Regional variation in US healthcare use: evidence from patient migration - Microeconomic Insights
• Education’s Role in Earnings, Employment, and Economic Mobility - Liberty Street Economics
• Loose Policies Around Close Elections Highlight the Political Limits of Macroprudential Regulation - ProMarket
• Housing Vouchers Can Help More Families Live in Higher-Opportunity Areas - CBPP
• Trump promised farmers ‘smarter’ trade deals. Now he has to bail them out. - The Washington Post

Links (9/3/18)

• Secular Stagnation, Myth and Reality - Gauti B. Eggertsson
• Setting the Record Straight on Secular Stagnation - Lawrence H. Summers
• Don't Get Into a Knife Fight with Larry Summers - Marginal Revolution
• Some Blogospheric Navel-Gazing - Three-Toed Sloth
• Corporate philanthropy as a tool for political influence - VoxEU
• A Shorter Work Week? - Tim Taylor
• A New Keynesian Model with Wealth in the Utility Function - NBER
• Labor Day: Unions Are Holding Strong in the Nordic Countries - Bloomberg
• Why We Should Worry About Monopsony - INET
• Trump’s Policies Will Displace the Dollar - Jeffrey D. Sachs
• Financial Crisis: The Endgame - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• The Numbers Behind a Fields Medalist's Math - Scientific American
• Path dependency in jury decision making - VoxEU
• Lessons from the Greek tragedy unlearnt - mainly macro
• James Mirrlees, economist, 1936-2018 - Financial Times
• Some thoughts on that new Fed paper - Jared Bernstein
• A shake-up of audit’s oligopoly is long overdue - Financial Times

Links (9/1/18)

I have been in Hawaii since before the hurricane and kind of fell behind. Oops:

• The Blind Target Shooter - Nick Rowe
• The 1 vs 3 Model of Quick Recessions vs Slow Recoveries - Nick Rowe
• Predictable movements in asset prices around FOMC meetings - VoxEU
• The effect of house prices on household borrowing - VoxEU
• The Myth of Secular Stagnation - Joseph E. Stiglitz
• Saving Capitalism from Economics 101 - Simon Johnson
• What Schumpeter Can Teach Economists about the Great Recession - ProMarket
• How Rising Inequality Has Widened the Justice Gap - The New York Times
• Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life - The New York Times
• Capitalism, Socialism, and Unfreedom - Paul Krugman
• Why It Can Happen Here - Paul Krugman
• For Whom the Economy Grows - Paul Krugman
• Giving Government Workers the Shaft - Paul Krugman
• Long Memory / Scaling Laws in Return Volatility - No Hesitations
• Monetary Policy in a Changing Economy - Jerome Powell
• "The Pattern is Clear": Economic research is being driven out of D.C. - Environmental Economics
• Turing's journey - Understanding Society
• Inflation Expectations and the Price at the Pump - Carola Binder
• Information in the Yield Curve about Future Recessions - FRBSF
• The Fed Should Prepare for the Unexpected - Narayana Kocherlakota
• Detecting changes in trend growth - Growth Economics
• The IMF as a transmission mechanism for academic knowledge - mainly macro
• Can Anyone Other than the U.S. Fund a Current Account Deficit These Days? - Brad Setser
• The Technology Tel – Digitopoly
• A Week in the Midwest - Economic Principals
• Climate change and finance: what role for central banks and financial regulators? - Bank Underground
• Why Brexit is a neoliberal project - mainly macro
• Fabio Ghironi: Ramblings on Tractability in Macroeconomics - Brad DeLong
• What Does the Current Slope of the Yield Curve Tell Us? - macroblog
• The Tax-Cut Con Goes On - Paul Krugman

Links (8/23/18)

• Partisanship, Parasites, and Polarization - Paul Krugman
• Trade and growth in the Iron Age - VoxEU
• Socialism in one country - Stumbling and Mumbling
• On the Economics of the Google Android Case - ProMarket
• Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee - The Fed
• The myth of intertemporal labour supply substitution - VoxEU
• The price impact of removing the penny - Bank Underground
• Duy: "Bostic Throws Down the Gauntlet" - Calculated Risk
• A Bee Industry Update - Tim Taylor
• Parrots' economics - EurekAlert!

Links (8/21/18)

• The G.O.P.’s Climate of Paranoia - Paul Krugman
• The biggest economic policy mistake of the last decade - mainly macro
• The Slippery Slope of Complicity - Paul Krugman
• The IT revolution and the globalisation of R&D - VoxEU
• Sources of Finance: Internal versus External - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Framing Turkey’s Financial Vulnerabilites- Brad Setser
• The making of the Federal Open Market Committee - VoxEU
• Central bank digital currency: Why it matters and why not - VoxEU

Links (8/18/18)

• Something Not Rotten in Denmark - Paul Krugman
• Measuring global economic activity - Jim Hamilton
• For automatic stabilizers - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Parental Assistance after Job Loss - FRB Cleveland
• Inflation targeting and large shocks - VoxEU
• Reskilling over a Lifetime - Tim Taylor
• Nominal price stickiness and real exchange rate fluctuations - VoxEU

Links (8/15/18)

• Who’s Afraid of Nancy Pelosi? - Paul Krugman
• Google Android case: Milestone or millstone? - Hal Varian
• Interest rate vs fiscal policy stabilisation - mainly macro
• Does Loyalty Pay Off? - macroblog
• Valuing ‘exclusive eyeballs’ - VoxEU
• Migrant networks boost trade - VoxEU
• Will Demographic Headwinds Hobble China’s Economy? - Liberty Street
• Can Horizontal Mergers Actually Boost Competition? - ProMarket
• Economics of Climate Change: Three Recent Takes - Tim Taylor
• Demand for automated driving technology - VoxEU

Links (8/13/18)

• Partying Like It’s 1998 - Paul Krugman
• The Economy Grew Faster in Truman’s Presidency. So What? - Robert Shiller
• Why the Fed needs a new monetary policy framework - Larry Summers
• Do Import Tariffs Help Reduce Trade Deficits? - Liberty Street
• Aging, Output Per Capita and Secular Stagnation - NBER
• Inequality in the Middle East - VoxEU
• It’s Not Just Carbon Dioxide - Economic Principals
• Human capital and the supply of agricultural workers - VoxEU
• A well-deserved tribute to Nick Rowe - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
• Protectionism and the business cycle - VoxEU
• Opening the Toolbox: The Nowcasting Code on GitHub - Liberty Street

Links (8/10/18)

• Mass Politics and "Populism" - Brad DeLong
• Asset prices and wealth inequality - VoxEU
• A Primer on the Jones Act and American Shipping - Tim Taylor
• Trends in mortality inequality in the US and France - VoxEU
• The economic costs of the US-China trade war - VoxEU
• Empires, Past and Present - Capital Ebbs and Flows
• What Should an Economics Research Article Look Like? - Tim Taylor
• Economics of density: evidence from the Berlin Wall - Microeconomic Insights
• The devastating cost of central banks’ caution - Financial Times
• Equality for All? - Roger E.A. Farmer

Links (8/8/18)

• Immigrants use little health care, subsidize non-immigrants - EurekAlert!
• The Ahistorical Federal Reserve - J. Bradford DeLong
• No to Academic Normalization of Trump - Dani Rodrik
• Why You Should Care About Unions - The New York Times
• Labour's Bank of England problem - Stumbling and Mumbling
• How Do the Fed’s MBS Holdings Affect the Economy? - Liberty Street
• Macroeconomic Research, Present and Past - Carola Binder
• Is capitalism rigged in favour of elites? - The Economist
• Some Facts on Global Current Account Balances - Tim Taylor
• Factor Model w Time-Varying Loadings - No Hesitations

Links (8/6/18)

• Notes on a Butter Republic - Paul Krugman
• An Interview with Avinash Dixit - The Politic
• Trump v. Fed - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• The robot paradox - Stumbling and Mumbling
• The ethnic segregation of immigrants in the US from 1850 to 1940 - VoxEU
• The Emergence and Erosion of the Retail Sales Tax - Tim Taylor
• Are Trump’s Policies Hurting Long-Term US Growth? - Kenneth Rogoff
• How Do the Fed's MBS Purchases Affect Credit Allocation? - Liberty Street
• They Want What We’ve Got - Economic Principals

Links (8/3/18)

• Stop Calling Trump a Populist - Paul Krugman
• Productivity Measurement Initiative - Brookings
• Why Every Good Economist Should Be Feminist - ProMarket
• Work Requirements Hurt Poor Families—and Won’t Work - Jason Furman
• The Hidden Danger for Trump in the Economy’s Growth Spurt - John Cassidy
• How China beat the Global Financial Crisis - mainly macro

Links (8/1/18)

• Transaction Costs and Tethers: Why I’m a Crypto Skeptic - Paul Krugman
• How to Even Out the Pains and Gains from International Trade - ProMarket
• Price Level Targeting with Evolving Credibility - Brad DeLong
• The Marxist Bank of England - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Monetary Policy as a Jobs Guarantee - The Everyday Economist

Links (7/31/18)

• Trump’s Supreme Betrayal - Paul Krugman
• Misperceptions about immigration and support for redistribution - VoxEU
• Making carbon pricing work for citizens - VoxEU
• How Coalitional Instincts Make Weird Groups and Stupid People - Tim Taylor
• Should Eurozone central bankers keep quiet about fiscal policy? - mainly macro
• The Fog of Trump - Economic Principals
• GDP: One size no longer fits all - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz

Links (7/30/18)

• Why One Quarter’s Growth Tells Us Nothing - Paul Krugman
• A la recherche of the roots of US inequality “exceptionalism” - globalinequality
• Checking phones in lectures can cost half a grade in exams - EurekAlert
• What Is the White House Whispering to the Fed? - Narayana Kocherlakota
• The decline of northern England, 1780–2018 - VoxEU
• Monetary policy for the next recession - Gavyn Davies
• The (Limited) Power of Exchange rates - EconoMonitor
• Homeopathic Bayes... - Brad DeLong
• The World Trade Historical Database - VoxEU
• Learning the Right Lessons From the Financial Crisis - Greg Mankiw
• Germany: Government Begins Unveiling Its Anti Trump Coalition - Spiegel
• U.S. GDP Report Clears Path for Two More Fed Rate Hikes - Tim Duy
• The economy’s great. That doesn’t mean Trumponomics is. - Washington Post

Links (7/25/18)

 

• Economists Can’t Write Economically, Driving Demand for Brevity - WSJ
• How biased technological change affects the labour market - VoxEU
• Trade Disruptions - IGM Forum 
• Corbyn's neglected question - Stumbling and Mumbling
• What a difference a day makes - Bank Underground
• Exchange Rates as a ‘Veil’ - Biagio Bossone
• China’s Currency Is Back in Play - Brad Setser

 

Links (7/23/18)

• Why Was the 20th Century Not a Chinese Century? - Brad DeLong
• Improving Labor Market for Workers with the Least Schooling - macroblog
• Artificial Intelligence, Economics, and Industrial Organization - Hal Varian 
• The State of New Keynesian Economics: A Partial Assessment - Jordi Gali
• Trump and Corporatism - mainly macro
• The Two Putins - Economic Principals
• The missing profits of nations - VoxEU

Links (7/20/18)

• How Did the Gold Standard Work? - The Everyday Economist
• The case for supporting renewable electricity - VoxEU
• Why is real wage growth anemic? It’s not because of a skills shortage - EPI
• Policy Failure in AT&T-Time Warner and American Express - ProMarket
• Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking Day 1 - John Cochrane
• Nobel Symposium on Money and Banking Day 2 - John Cochrane
• The Diagnose of Italy’s Disease - EconoMonitor