Links of the Week - 28 March 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Notes on Piketty
Paul Krugman

Piketty on Marx
Matt Bruenig

Paul Ryan’s Irish Amnesia
Timothy Egan

There’s No Substitute for the Government
James Kwak

Which is better, data or theory?
Noah Smith

Roundup of Arguments Contra-Piketty

Probably still too early for good, sound rebuttals to Capital in the Twenty-First Century, but, until we get one of those, have a look-see at this stuff:


Arnold Kling doesn't understand, because he thinks the premise is impossible because, well, he never quite says...

Will Wilkinson just doesn't want to talk about it.

Robin Hanson sees invisible taxes.

Tyler Cowen promises he'll have more to say later, and his readers say "THEFT! OMG!!"


Any more found will be added to this list. If you have one, leave it in the comments and I will add it on.

[Cross posted at the Newsfeed]

Links of the Week - 21 March 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States
Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert A. Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz

Redistribution, inequality, and sustainable growth: Reconsidering the evidence
Jonathan D Ostry, Andrew Berg, and Charalambos Tsangarides

How macro answered its critics
Noah Smith

What the collapse of the Ming Dynasty can tell us about American decline
Noah Smith

Redistribution and the Lesser Depression
Paul Krugman

Avoiding the cost of needless fear
Cass Sunstein

America’s Long and Productive History of Class Warfare
Justin Fox

Inequality in Capitalist Systems Is Not Inevitable
Mark Thoma

Whose Economy You Talkin’ About?!
Jared Bernstein

Wages of Fear
Paul Krugman

I’m a Slacker Not a Quitter and You Should be Too
Jared Bernstein

Piketty on Economists
via Matt Bruenig

Piketty’s Triumph
Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson, Heather Boushey, Branko Milanovic

A response to another attack on the Great Gatsby curve—and can we call it the “line to serfdom” instead?
Carter Price

Needed: Meaningful Progress on Income Inequality
Chris House

Links of the Week - 14 March 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Putting Economic Data Into Context
Bruce Bartlett

The Mobility Myth
James Surowiecki

Down the Up Staircase
Paul Krugman

Gauging Mobility
Greg Mankiw

Communists have seized the IMF!
Howard Schneider

An Unthinkably Modern Miracle
John Fischer

How the Medical Establishment Got the Treasury’s Keys
Uwe Reinhardt

Is Behavioral Economics the Past or the Future?
Chris House

Behavioral economics vs. behavioral finance
Noah Smith

Envy Versus Anger
Paul Krugman

High Road, Low Road
Joseph Joyce

Clarence Thomas Nostalgic for Race-Neutral Days of 1960s Georgia
Jonathan Chait

Brad DeLong on the Market for Risk

Let Them Eat Dignity
Paul Krugman

Exit Easing, Enter NGDP
Evan Soltas

Nation of CRINOs
Paul Krugman

Shrinking Governments: Good or Bad?
Floyd Norris

Missing Persons Report
Zachary Karabell

What do voluntary mean?
Matt Bruenig

Reading "Capital": Introduction, continued
Ryan Avent

NY Fed Labor Conditions

The Federal Reserve bank of New York has published a cool interactive guide to labor conditions, using some familiar and some unfamiliar metrics. It looks like they are still working out the kinks, but, when fully operational, this will be a great resource. Now, if they only make these graphics embeddable, they will be approaching the same league as the St Louis Fed...

Links of the Week - 7 March 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Have we been living in an age of austerity?
Zachary Goldfarb

In a Dark Year, a Lighter Side at the Fed
Annie Lowrey

Capitalism for the Masses – Part III
Jonathan Wight

Higher Education: Different Questions Yield Different Answers
Jared Bernstein

Winners Take All, but Can’t We Still Dream?
Robert Frank

The Fed in 2008
Chris House

Screw Up In High School, If You Are Rich
Matt Bruenig

Capitalism for the Masses – Part IV
Jonathan Wight

The Minimum Wage Increase and the CBO’s Job Loss Estimate
Jared Berstein

Natural Big Lies
Paul Krugman

Warren Buffett reveals the one stock fund you need to invest in
Jia Lynn Yang

Ben Bernanke’s Biggest Mistake
Matthew Yglesias

What Effect Will a Minimum Wage Increase Have?
Brad DeLong

Should the state support anti-gay discrimination?
Matt Bruenig

Choose Your Monetary Adventure, Mt. Gox Edition
Paul Krugman

Links of the Week - 28 February 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


I Can’t Find Enough Skilled Workers! (At the Crappy Wage I’m Offering…)
Jared Bernstein

Time to mobilize against inflation paranoia
Ryan Cooper

Here’s why blocking the Comcast merger is good for free markets
Timothy B. Lee

Stupidity in Economic Discourse
Paul Krugman

Karl Rove: Presidents Who Leave Deficits, Bad Economies, and War Are the Worst
Jonathan Chait

Microfoundations and Mephistopheles
Paul Krugman

A Faustian Bargain?
Chris House

When Will Social Conservatives Stop Demanding Special Rights?
Josh Barro

Iron Men of Wall Street
Paul Krugman

Affairs, Domestic and Foreign
Joseph Joyce

Ferrari Capitalism
Jonathan Wight

The Trouble With Being Abstruse
Paul Krugman

The Stimulus Success
Bill McBride

Is there a use for Real Business Cycle Models?
Chris House

The Stimulus Anniversary
Paul Krugman

Technological Progress Isn't Deflation
Matthew Yglesias

Are negative interest rates really the solution?
David Andolfatto

2008
David Andolfatto

Capitalism for the Masses – Part I
Jonathan Wight