Procrastination for October 5, 2017...

Over at Equitable Growth: Must- and Should-Reads:

Politics in the Way of Progress: Live Over at Project Syndicate http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/politics-in-the-way-of-progress-live-over-at-project-syndicate/
Brink Lindsey and the Road to Utopia http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/brink-lindsey-and-the-road-to-utopia/
Elizabeth Munnich and Abigail Wozniak: What explains the rising share of U.S. men in registered nursing?: "This paper documents four decades of increasing participation in registered nursing among US men and explores reasons for this change... http://equitablegrowth.org/working-papers/rising-share-men-nursing/
Nick Bunker: Old companies may be slowing down the U.S. economyh: "Titan Alon and David Berger... Robert Dent... and Benjamin Pugsley... labor productivity of firms over their lifecycles... http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/value-added/old-companies-may-be-slowing-down-the-u-s-economy/
Karl Smith: Just Say No To Kevin Warsh: "Apparently Kevin Warsh is in a dead heat with Janet Yellen for Fed Chair.����I tried to articulate just how bad this is but the whole thing has me shrill... https://niskanencenter.org/blog/notes/just-say-no-kevin-warsh/
Victor Chernozhukov et al.: Announcement of new Economics (econ) archive: "An Economics section of the scientific repository arXiv is opening this month... https://arxiv.org/help/econ/announcement
James Pethokoukis: Why can't the GOP come up with any serious ideas?: "This is proving to be a monumental week in the 163-year history of the Republican Party. And so far, it isn���t going very well... http://www.aei.org/publication/why-cant-the-gop-come-up-with-any-serious-ideas/
Jong-Wha Lee: South Korea���s Looming Crisis: "More problematic, however, are South Korea���s low labor-market efficiency and weak institutions... https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/south-korea-nuclear-threat-economic-crisis-by-lee-jong-wha-2017-10
Tyler Cowen: The Fed Needs a Savvy Politician as Its Chair: "The next time major economic volatility comes around, Fed decisions will be scrutinized and politicized like never before... https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-10-05/the-fed-needs-a-savvy-politician-as-its-chair
Alice Wu: Labor Lunch: Gender Stereotyping Academia: Evidence from Economics Job Market Rumors Forum: "Thursday,��October��05,��2017 | 12-1 p.m. | 648��Evans Hall... http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/econ.html?event_ID=111181 https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4i8900wgwn0gcr/Wu_EJMR_paper_09_2017.pdf?dl=0
Ben Thompson: Google���s Search for the Sweet Spot: "What was most striking... was Google CEO Sundar Pichai���s opening... https://stratechery.com/2017/googles-search-for-the-sweet-spot/
Paul Krugman: Shifts Get Real: Understanding the GOP's Policy Quagmire: "There are crucial links between the health care faceplant and the bad news (for the GOP) on taxes ��� links both causal and... cultural... https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/shifts-get-real-understanding-the-gops-policy-quagmire/?_r=0
Cosma Shalizi (1994): Review of: John E. Roemer, A Future for Socialism: "What to do the week after the Revolution has always been a poser for socialists... http://bactra.org/reviews/future-for-socialism/
Peter Suderman: There isn't a political home for people on the right who care about policy: "A recurring theme of 2017 is how frustrated right of center folks who care about policy are with Republicans... https://twitter.com/petersuderman/status/913488456067747840
MIT: Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science (Course 6-14): "Required Subjects: Mathematics: 18.06 Linear Algebra... http://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/computer-science-economics-data-science-course-6-14/
Karl Smith: THE BIG SIX'S TAX REFORM FRAMEWORK: THE GOOD AND THE BAD: "For individual taxpayers, we see a meaningful effort to curb and slowly eliminate the myriad of deductions and loopholes that plague the tax code... https://niskanencenter.org/blog/big-sixs-tax-reform-framework-good-bad/
Michael Geruso and Timothy Layton: Selection in Health Insurance Markets and Its Policy Remedies: "We begin by outlining some important but often misunderstood differences between two types of conceptual frameworks... http://www.nber.org/papers/w23876

Interesting Reads:

Mark Gertler: Rethinking the Power of Forward Guidance: Lessons from Japan: "I sketch a model meant to capture the challenge of reflation in Japan.... As Kuroda (2016) emphasizes, for an economy without a history of inflation being anchored by a target, individuals need direct evidence that the central bank is capable of moving inflation to target..." http://www.imes.boj.or.jp/research/papers/english/17-E-08.pdf
Pseudoeresmus: Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence https://pseudoerasmus.com/2017/10/02/ijd/
Nancy LeTourneau: How Mitch McConnell Paved the Way For Trump http://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/03/how-mitch-mcconnell-paved-the-way-for-trump/
David Autor: Polanyi's Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth https://economics.mit.edu/files/9835
Robin Harding: Japanese business conditions strongest in a decade, Tankan shows: "Evidence of improved corporate fortunes boosts Abe in election race with Koike..." https://www.ft.com/content/65cfc8f6-a707-11e7-ab55-27219df83c97
Neel Kashkari: My Take on Inflation: "FOMC policy over the past few years has likely led to falling inflation expectations and somewhat slower job growth, wage growth and inflation. Why did the FOMC remove accommodation during this time?..." https://medium.com/@neelkashkari/my-take-on-inflation-578aa5b6dc14
Alfred Noyes (1906): The Highwayman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwayman_(poem). Was this really written so late as 1906?

And Over Here:

Politics in the Way of Progress: Live Over at Project Syndicate http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/politics-in-the-way-of-progress-live-over-at-project-syndicate.html
Brink Lindsey and the Road to Utopia http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/highlighted-september-12-2017.html
The Robert Heinlein Wars, Part MDCCLXIV: Hoisted from 2006 http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/the-robert-heinlein-wars-part-mdcclxiv-hoisted-from-2006.html
Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage, Watching Its Opinions-of-Shape-of-Earth-Differ Inhabitants: Erik Loomis: PUNDITS: THEY LOVE POLITICAL NORMS THAT "BOTH SIDES DO IT," HATE ACCURATE DESCRIPTIONS OF REPUBLICAN POLICIES: "Evidently Brendan Nyhan followed me on Twitter. Nyhan is a political scientist at Dartmouth and frequent writer in the New York Times who contributes eye-rollers such as this..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/live-from-the-orange-haired-baboon-cage-watching-its-opinions-of-shape-of-earth-differ-inhabitants-i-score-this-one-for.html
Live from the Orange-Haired Baboon Cage: Why isn't Gary Cohn promoting Neel Kashkari as a candidate for Fed Chair? http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/live-from-the-orange-haired-baboon-cage-why-isnt-gary-cohn-promoting-neel-kashkari-as-a-candidate-for-fed-chair.html
Comment of the Day: Philip Koop: MONDAY SMACKDOWN: THE ELEMENTARY ARITHMETIC OF A VALUE-ADDED TAX (VAT): "'But do the Wall Street Journal and the Hoover Institution really want to be in the business of rejecting not just reality but basic arithmetic as having a left-wing bias?'..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/comment-of-the-day-philip-koop-monday-smackdown-the-elementary-arithmetic-of-a-value-added-tax-vat-but-do-the-wal.html
Should-Read: Nick Bunker: OLD COMPANIES MAY BE SLOWING DOWN THE U.S. ECONOMY: "Titan Alon and David Berger... Robert Dent... and Benjamin Pugsley... labor productivity of firms over their lifecycles..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-nick-bunker-old-companies-may-be-slowing-down-the-us-economyh-titan-alon-and-david-berger-robert-den.html
Should-Read: Elizabeth Munnich and Abigail Wozniak: WHAT EXPLAINS THE RISING SHARE OF U.S. MEN IN REGISTERED NURSING?: "This paper documents four decades of increasing participation in registered nursing among US men and explores reasons for this change...." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-elizabeth-munnich-and-abigail-wozniak-what-explains-the-rising-share-of-us-men-in-registered-nursing-t.html
Should-Read: Karl Smith: JUST SAY NO TO KEVIN WARSH: "Apparently Kevin Warsh is in a dead heat with Janet Yellen for Fed Chair.����I tried to articulate just how bad this is but the whole thing has me shrill..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/2-should-read-karl-smith-just-say-no-to-kevin-warsh-niskanen-center-just-say-no-to-kevin-warsh-by-karl-smith-app.html
Should-Read: James Pethokoukis: WHY CAN'T THE GOP COME UP WITH ANY SERIOUS IDEAS?: "This is proving to be a monumental week in the 163-year history of the Republican Party. And so far, it isn���t going very well..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/1-should-read-james-pethokoukis-why-cant-the-gop-come-up-with-any-serious-ideas-this-is-proving-to-be-a-monumenta.html
Should-Read: Victor Chernozhukov et al.: ANNOUNCEMENT OF NEW ECONOMICS (ECON) ARCHIVE: "An Economics section of the scientific repository arXiv is opening this month..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-announcement-of-new-economics-econ-archive-an-economics-section-of-the-scientific-repository-arxiv-is-op.html
Should-Read: Jong-Wha Lee: SOUTH KOREA���S LOOMING CRISIS: "More problematic, however, are South Korea���s low labor-market efficiency and weak institutions..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-according-to-the-imf-south-korea-is-30th-in-the-world-in-gdp-per-capitaabove-new-zealand-italy-spain.html
Should-Read: Ben Thompson: GOOGLE���S SEARCH FOR THE SWEET SPOT: "What was most striking... was Google CEO Sundar Pichai���s opening..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-ben-thompson-googles-search-for-the-sweet-spot-what-was-most-striking-was-google-ceo-sundar-pichai.html
Should-Attend: Alice Wu: LABOR LUNCH: GENDER STEREOTYPING ACADEMIA: EVIDENCE FROM ECONOMICS JOB MARKET RUMORS FORUM: "Thursday,��October��05,��2017 | 12-1 p.m. | 648��Evans Hall... http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/... https://www.dropbox.com/s/k4i8900wgwn......" http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-attend-alice-wu-labor-lunch-gender-stereotyping-academia-evidence-from-economics-job-market-rumors-forum-thu.html
Should-Read: Tyler Cowen: THE FED NEEDS A SAVVY POLITICIAN AS ITS CHAIR: "The next time major economic volatility comes around, Fed decisions will be scrutinized and politicized like never before..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/must-read-it-is-very-hard-to-read-the-subtext-of-what-tyler-cowen-is-saying-here-about-the-fed-chair-if-i-had-to-gues.html
Should-Read: Paul Krugman: SHIFTS GET REAL: UNDERSTANDING THE GOP'S POLICY QUAGMIRE: "There are crucial links between the health care faceplant and the bad news (for the GOP) on taxes ��� links both causal and... cultural..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-why-_are_-the-republicansryan-mcconnell-and-trump-allproposing-a-tax-cut-for-the-upper-class-substa.html
Should-Read: Cosma Shalizi (1994): REVIEW OF: JOHN E. ROEMER, A FUTURE FOR SOCIALISM: "What to do the week after the Revolution has always been a poser for socialists..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-cosma-shalizi-1994-john-e-roemer-_a-future-for-socialism_-what-to-do-the-week-after-the-revolution-ha.html
Should-Read: Peter Suderman: THERE ISN'T A POLITICAL HOME FOR PEOPLE ON THE RIGHT WHO CARE ABOUT POLICY: "A recurring theme of 2017 is how frustrated right of center folks who care about policy are with Republicans..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-my-view-is-that-the-principal-cause-of-the-political-homelessness-of-right-wing-policy-intellectuals-is-of-t.html
Should-Read: MIT: COMPUTER SCIENCE, ECONOMICS, AND DATA SCIENCE (COURSE 6-14): "Required Subjects: Mathematics: 18.06 Linear Algebra..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/1-should-read-mit-computer-science-economics-and-data-science-course-6-14-required-subjects-mathematics-180.html
Should-Read: Karl Smith: THE BIG SIX'S TAX REFORM FRAMEWORK: THE GOOD AND THE BAD: "For individual taxpayers, we see a meaningful effort to curb and slowly eliminate the myriad of deductions and loopholes that plague the tax code..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/3-should-read-ok-but-where-is-the-ugly-karl-smith-the-big-sixs-tax-reform-framework-the-good-and-the-bad.html
Should-Read: Michael Geruso and Timothy Layton: SELECTION IN HEALTH INSURANCE MARKETS AND ITS POLICY REMEDIES: "We begin by outlining some important but often misunderstood differences between two types of conceptual frameworks..." http://www.bradford-delong.com/2017/10/should-read-michael-geruso-and-timothy-layton-selection-in-health-insurance-markets-and-its-policy-remedies-we-begin.html

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