Category: Equitablog
Must-Read: Ezra Klein: The GOP’s biggest health care achievement has been making Obamacare more popular
Must-Read: Ezra Klein: The GOP’s biggest health care achievement has been making Obamacare more popular: “It is bizarre watching House Republicans persuade themselves that the problem they face on health […]
Should-Read: Fatih Guvenen and Greg Kaplan: Top Income Inequality in the 21st Century: Some Cautionary Notes
Should-Read: Fatih Guvenen and Greg Kaplan: Top Income Inequality in the 21st Century: Some Cautionary Notes: “IRS and SSA data reveal diverging patterns in top income shares… http://papers.nber.org/w23321.pdf …due to […]
Must-Read: Kevin Drum: We’re Now In the Second Biggest Housing Boom of All Time
Must-Read: There were three good reasons in the mid-2000s to believe that housing prices should jump substantially. The coming of secular stagnation—then called the “global savings glut”—greatly boosted demand by […]
Must-Read: Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor: Monetary Policy Medicine: Large Effects from Small Doses?
Must-Read: Òscar Jordà, Moritz Schularick, and Alan M. Taylor: Monetary Policy Medicine: Large Effects from Small Doses?: “How do we know that higher interest rates will bring prices under control?… […]
Should-Read: Chris Hayes: On escaping the “doom loop” of Trump’s presidency
Should-Read: Chris Hayes: On escaping the “doom loop” of Trump’s presidency: “I tend to think of it in terms of my own behavior… https://www.vox.com/2017/4/19/15356534/chris-hayes-donald-trump-media-elections-2016-criminal-justice …Like, what am I going to […]
Weekend reading: “This post is tax-ing” edition
This is a weekly post we publish on Fridays with links to articles that touch on economic inequality and growth. The first section is a round-up of what Equitable Growth […]
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Should-Read: Hyun Song Shin: Accounting for global liquidity: reloading the matrix
Should-Read: Hyun Song Shin: Accounting for global liquidity: reloading the matrix: “In emerging market economies especially, a weakening of the domestic currency against the dollar saps both cross-border bank lending […]
Must-and Should-Reads: April 21, 2017
Nick Bunker: What would rules-based monetary policy look like?: “All of this isn’t to say that the reaction functions of central banks or individual central bankers aren’t important http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/what-would-rules-based-monetary-policy-look-like/…” http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/04/what-would-rules-based-monetary-policy-look-like-equitable-growth.html […]
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Against Alasdair Macintyre’s “After Virtue”
Alasdair Macintyre, at least in his After Virtue mode, believes that good civilizations are ones with moral consensus led by prophets, rather than ones with moral confusion managed by managers. […]
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Should-Read: Jamelle Bouie: The Muted Response to the Retail Apocalypse Shows Which Workers Count in Trump’s America
Should-Read: Jamelle Bouie: The Muted Response to the Retail Apocalypse Shows Which Workers Count in Trump’s America: Fake Working Class: “The retail industry’s recent decline… http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/04/the_response_to_the_retail_apocalypse_shows_which_workers_count_in_trump.html …may have reached a […]