September 2010
Atlantic Monthly Fail (Clive Crook Edition) →
Shorter Clive Crook: “I sort-of apologize for claiming that climate scientists were acting to deceive but I don’t really because these statistical issues are a plausible topic for debate by people…
It Looks as Though Notebook Sales Have Peaked... →
If you had told me nine months ago that Apple’s iPad would be so successful that notebook computer sales would start to drop, I would simply not have believed you. Philip Elmer-Dewitt: …
19 Turkeys in My Yard. Somebody Call Michael... →
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links for 2010-09-16 →
Print on the iPad: A smashing success | The Economist The Economist: Print on the iPad: A smashing success: http://tinyurl.com/2cp9xc2 #worthreading
Pressure grows on Harvard to…
Memo to Self: Check What Kind of Peppers Are in... →
Mexican poblano peppers do not taste like Hungarian gypsy peppers. That is all.
Justinian, Flavius Apion, Anoup, James Scott, etc. →
We are live at Cato Unbound of the sadly diminished staff: Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » Perhaps. And Sometimes.
Recess Appointment Time at the Fed →
In fact, it was recess appointment time at the Fed in August 2009—if not earlier. But it is definitely recess appointment time at the Fed. This is, I think, Obama’s largest and most damaging…
Median Income by Race →
Via Joe Weisenthal:
The Harvard Social Studies Major's Fiftieth... →
Looks like it may be exciting! You see, Harvard has a Marty Peretz problem. Here’s Benjamin Sarlin: Harvard’s Marty Peretz Problem. Marty Peretz asks: do I have to pretend I think Muslims…
When Was There a "Respectable" Republican Party? →
Duncan Black asks: Eschaton: The GOP Daddies Of Yore: Glennzilla raises some important points about Villager hostility to O’Donnell. Basically, Villager scorn is largely class-based, in that…
Karl Smith: Apostle to teh Ignoramuses →
Karl Smith appears to be hanging out with some economists who have trained themselves into being incapable of seeing what is going on around them. Their idea of why the…
Liveblogging World War II: September 16, 1940 →
From Wikipedia: Selective Training and Service Act of 1940: The Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, also known as the Burk-Wadsworth Act, 54 Stat. 885 was passed by the Congress of…
Three Good Ones From the Superb Uwe Reinhardt →
How Economists Bastardized Benthamite Utilitarianism The Welfare Economics of Health Insurance The Concepts of “Efficiency” and “Economic Welfare” in the Context of Health Care
links for 2010-09-15 →
The Plan B for Economic Recovery | NewAmerica.net The Plan B for Economic Recovery: http://tinyurl.com/36voj9q #worthreading
Review: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson – Winner-Take-All…
Today's Additions to the Pile... →
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It Is the Aggregate Demand, Stupid →
Paul Krugman: It’s Demand, Stupid: I’ve said this before, but Catherine Rampell has a very nice chart making the point: if you ask businesses — as opposed to their lobbyists — what their…
Monetary Easing Achieved Through "Competitive... →
Mark Thoma three hundred miles north along The Five informs me that Barry Eichengreen five feet north through the office wall has written yet another good column: Barry Eichengreen:…
UC Berkeley Webcasts and File Uploads: J. Bradford... →
Three audio files of the first Econ 1 lecture: Lecture 1, August 30: Introduction to Macroeconomics. One at:
Economics 1, 001: The others at:
Download 20100830 Econ 1 LS | Download…
I Would Be a Bad Person If I Cancelled Class to Go... →
…but I am tempted: CITRIS (Ctr. for Info Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Calendar: The Google Book Settlement as Copyright Reform: Speaker/Performer: Pamela Samuelson,…
Review of Depression Economics →
Review of Depression Economics
Open publication - Free publishing - More macroeconomics
The British Press Liveblogs World War II:... →
From Airminded: Airminded · Saturday, 14 September 1940: The New Statesman and Nation: THE fantastic climax seems to have arrived. Flat-bottomed barges and merchant ships are creeping…
Macro Advisers Is Forecasting a 1.5% Third Quarter... →
Sigh…
Special Award for Best Use of Einstein's Principle... →
Inception (2010):
Files for September 15 Econ 1 Lecture: Inflation... →
September 15: Inflation Economics: [Audio] Slides Notes
Open publication - Free publishing - More macroeconomics
Open publication -…
Problem Set 2: Due at Start of Lecture on... →
Open publication - Free publishing - More problem set
Problem Set 2
Adolf Galland Livebiogs WWII: September 15, 1940 →
Luftwaffe Commander Adolf Galland: September 15, 1940: Failure to achieve any notable success, constantly changing orders betraying lack of purpose and obvious misjudgment of the situation by…
links for 2010-09-14 →
Park51, and Islam in America : The New Yorker
Economics of Contempt: A Scary Thought
Matthew Yglesias » High Cost of Fed Vacancies Matthew Yglesias: High Cost of Fed…
James Scott, "Legibility," Flavius Apion, Anoup,... →
Cato Unbound: James Scott: The Trouble with the View from Above. A comment: In 542 AD the late Roman (early Byzantine?) Emperor Justinian I wrote to his Praetorian Prefect concerning the…
Can We Please Shut the New York Times Down Now? →
And replace it with something with a little more self-awareness and a little less utter stupidity? Outsourced to Dean Dad: Confessions of a Community College Dean: When We Say “College,” We…
links for 2010-09-14 →
Park51, and Islam in America : The New Yorker
Economics of Contempt: A Scary Thought
Matthew Yglesias » High Cost of Fed Vacancies Matthew Yglesias: High Cost of Fed…
links for 2010-09-14 →
Park51, and Islam in America : The New Yorker
Economics of Contempt: A Scary Thought
Matthew Yglesias » High Cost of Fed Vacancies Matthew Yglesias: High Cost of Fed…
links for 2010-09-14 →
Park51, and Islam in America : The New Yorker
Economics of Contempt: A Scary Thought
Matthew Yglesias » High Cost of Fed Vacancies Matthew Yglesias: High Cost of Fed…
links for 2010-09-14 →
Park51, and Islam in America : The New Yorker
Economics of Contempt: A Scary Thought
Matthew Yglesias » High Cost of Fed Vacancies Matthew Yglesias: High Cost of Fed…
links for 2010-09-13 →
Park51, and Islam in America : The New Yorker
Economics of Contempt: A Scary Thought
Matthew Yglesias » High Cost of Fed Vacancies Matthew Yglesias: High Cost of Fed…
Files for September 13 Econ 1 Lecture: The Housing... →
September 13: The Housing Bubble, the Crash, and the Great Recession: Audio Slides [Notes] 20100913 for 20100913 Econ 1.pdf
Open publication - Free …
Economic History Seminar: Mrdjan Mladjan:... →
The credit channel, with U.S. weather as an instrument: Economic History Seminar: Mrdjan Mladjan: Accelerating into the Abyss: Financial Dependence and the Great Depression Abstract: The role…
Hoisted from the Archives: John Maynard Keyness... →
John Maynard Keynes’s Private Letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt of February 1, 1938: To Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1 February 1938 Private and personal Dear Mr. President, You received…
Fiscal Policy: Chad Stone Talks Sense →
Chad Stone: Off the Charts Blog: Analysts Mark Zandi, Peter Orszag, and Howard Gleckman have all said sensible things about what would be the best policy for dealing with the expiring Bush…
James Fallows on the Execrable Marty Peretz (Why... →
Fallows: A Harsh Thing I Should Have Said (Martin Peretz Dept): Usually you regret the harsh things you say more than the harsh things you decide not to say. At least, that’s how it usually…
links for 2010-09-11 →
Naviance Family Connection
9/10/10 OBAMA PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT
Obsidian Wings: So Gross And Notorious An Act Of Despotism
The Washington Monthly
Reckonings -…
James Hamilton and Cynthia Wu on Non-Standard... →
Jim writes: Should the Fed try to depress long-term yields further?: I’ve been sharing with readers my recent research with Cynthia Wu, in which we found that the Fed could likely lower…
We Are Losing the Struggle That Began on 9/11... →
That is how I read this: Alex Tabarrok: Marginal Revolution: No Checks, No Balances: From the NYTimes The lead plaintiff is Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian citizen and legal resident of…
links for 2010-09-10 →
Ezra Klein - Extending the Bush tax cuts for all Americans is unpopular Ezra Klein: Extending the Bush tax cuts for all Americans is unpopular: http://tinyurl.com/3yov35b #worthreading
Recovery and Productivity →
From the office next door, Barry Eichengreen writes: A Productivity Boom-in-Waiting?: BERKELEY – A double-dip recession is one thing, but a lost decade is something far more sinister. In the…
Why the Hittites? →
Buce asks: Underbelly: Upside-Down Pyramid Moment::The Hittites: One of my favorite teachers used to say that one of the fun things about history is that you could always look at the same…
Unfinished Business re Megan McArdle →
I wrote, on May 13, 2008: Will David Card and Alan Krueger Be Amused?: Megan McArdle writes: Megan McArdle: So if the only support for your positions [on the minimum wage] comes from…
Coffee with an Impetuous Young Whippersnapper →
Meeting Matt Zeitlin for the first time—and, of course, the meeting is in the shadow of the fact that we have each read most of the words written by the other over the past couple of years. …
Can We Please Shut the Washington Post Down Now... →
Round 1: Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart used a tweet from Rep. Jack Kimble of California as a launching pad for a blog post on who is to blame for the current federal deficits…
What Is This "News" You Speak of? →
Charles Homans: I think that TV airtime is such a non-scarce commodity at this point that it doesn’t really matter what you do. You can’t dominate an atomized discourse—people predisposed to…
CSPAN: The Macroeconomic Sitch →
U.S. Economic Issues - C-SPAN Video Library: Bradford DeLong spoke about the economy and unemployment. He argued that original stimulus program was not large enough and another was needed to…
