Some Fairly-Recent Must- and Should-Reads...

Jason Furman: @jasonfurman on Twitter: "THREAD. New results from Penn-Wharton Budget Model show wage effects of corporate tax changes...

Tim Alberta: John Boehner Unchained: "After railing against the defund strategy, however, Boehner surveyed his conference and realized...

John Quiggin: The end of fossil fuels: "The International Energy Agency recently released data showing that world coal production fell sharply in 2016, mainly because of big cuts in China...

Dani Rodrik: Growth Without Industrialization?: "FLow-income African countries can sustain moderate rates of productivity growth into the future, on the back of steady improvements in human capital and governance...

David Glasner: Larry Summers v. John Taylor: No Contest: "'If a Fed Funds rate higher than the rate set for the past three years would have led, as the Taylor rule implies, to lower inflation...

Zeynep Tufekci: On Twitter: "Facebook and Google helped them better target fear-mongering videos: "Facebook and Google helped them better target fear-mongering videos showing 'France and Germany overrun by sharia law'���to get the ad money...

Austin Clemens: Here���s why you should interpret GDP growth estimates skeptically: "No single number can really tell us much of anything about our immensely complicated $19 trillion economy...

Iris Marechal: Weekend reading: the ���fiscal highlights��� edition: "Rex Nutting argues that the Trump-Ryan plan will actually encourage more corporate offshore tax avoidance...

Will Wilkinson: Public Policy after Utopia: "That all our evidence about how social systems actually work comes from formerly or presently existing systems is a huge problem for anyone committed to a radically revisionary ideal of the morally best society...

Bridget Ansel: The gender gap in economics has ramifications far beyond the ivory tower: "The lack of women in economics���and their segregation into certain subfields���boast ramifications beyond individual women���s careers...

Some Fairly-Recent Links:

Oliver Butterworth
Nicholas Bagley: Trump and the Essential Health Benefits
Jeet Heer: The Old New Republic & Gender: Some notes
Cameron Joseph: Once More Unto The Breach! Romney Eyes Senate Run To Fill Anti-Trump Void
FT: Xi Jinping and China���s global ambitions: Under President Xi, who consolidated his power at this week���s Congress, China is showing a new confidence globally in its cultural, economic and diplomatic model. But how ���soft��� is its ���soft power���? Here���s the best of our comment and analysis..."

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Must-Reads:

Jason Furman: @jasonfurman on Twitter: "THREAD. New results from Penn-Wharton Budget Model show wage effects of corporate tax changes...
Tim Alberta: John Boehner Unchained: "After railing against the defund strategy, however, Boehner surveyed his conference and realized...

Should-Reads:

John Quiggin: The end of fossil fuels: "The International Energy Agency recently released data showing that world coal production fell sharply in 2016, mainly because of big cuts in China...
David Glasner: Larry Summers v. John Taylor: No Contest: "'If a Fed Funds rate higher than the rate set for the past three years would have led, as the Taylor rule implies, to lower inflation...
Bridget Ansel: The gender gap in economics has ramifications far beyond the ivory tower: "The lack of women in economics���and their segregation into certain subfields���boast ramifications beyond individual women���s careers...
Iris Marechal: Weekend reading: the ���fiscal highlights��� edition: "Rex Nutting argues that the Trump-Ryan plan will actually encourage more corporate offshore tax avoidance...
Austin Clemens: Here���s why you should interpret GDP growth estimates skeptically: "No single number can really tell us much of anything about our immensely complicated $19 trillion economy...

Links:

Oliver Butterworth
Nicholas Bagley: Trump and the Essential Health Benefits
**Noah Smith: Japan Goes With Another Round of Abenomics - Bloomberg: "And why not? The economy hasn't been this good since the 1980s..."
Matthew Yglesias (2010): Wieseltier vs��Sullivan