Both James Pethokoukis and David Beckworth interviewed Ryan Avent recently, re his new book, "The Wealth of Humans".
In response to Nick Rowe's patient efforts - Brad Delong asks, "How seriously should we take the New Keynesian model?"
The real problem is that healthcare costs are still rising as a share of income (Timothy Taylor): http://conversableeconomist.blogspot.com/2016/10/rising-out-of-pocket-health-care-costs.html
Scott Sumner responds to a recent report from Carola Binder and Alex Rodrigue, re monetary rules and targets.
"To end the affordable housing crisis, Washington needs to legalize Main Street."
David Sloan Wilson has a particularly good opinion of Elinor Ostrom: "The Woman Who Saved Economics From Disaster"
also, http://evonomics.com/tragedy-of-the-commons-elinor-ostrom/
The blog "A Fine Theorem" provides informative background on the 2016 economics Nobel winners, in two posts.
https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2016/10/10/nobel-prize-2016-part-i-bengt-holmstrom/
https://afinetheorem.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/nobel-prize-2016-part-ii-oliver-hart/
Mark Thoma (for Moneywatch) also explains why this year's Nobel was so well deserved.
A global restoration of nature could be underway in America:
http://phe.rockefeller.edu/docs/Nature_Rebounds.pdf
Cass Sunstein comes up with a nice list: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-10-11/five-books-to-change-liberals-minds
Some classics from R.H. Coase, "The Nature of the Firm" http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~jsfeng/CPEC11.pdf
also, "The Problem of Social Cost", http://econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSBpf/readings/coase.pdf
If only we knew, how many people would choose a walkable community over one with auto transportation, if they had the option to do so. "Put people, not cars, first in transport systems."
Howard Husock reviews "Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs" by Robert Kanigel
http://www.city-journal.org/html/uncredentialed-woman-14809.html
Five wars, at one time. http://theweek.com/articles/655826/why-wont-anyone-admit-that-america-fighting-5-wars
Some Econlog posts from Scott Sumner: on macroeconomics, with an apt quote from Einstein: "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
The case for easy money today, is not as strong as before.
"Is the Fed a firefighter or an arsonist?"
Japan as a refutation of old Keynesian ideas.
No one does furniture quite like Ikea: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-weird-economics-of-ikea/
What happened to adolescence? https://aeon.co/essays/adolescence-is-no-longer-a-bridge-between-childhood-and-adult-life
From David Beckworth and Joshua Hendrickson: https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/mercatus-beckworth-ngdp-taylor-rule-v1.pdf
"Do recessions accelerate routine-biased technological change?" Of this study, Brookings write "The Great Recession has hastened the polarization of the labor market."
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/workshops/appliedecon/pdf/AEW%20Spring%20Lisa%20Kahn.pdf
Jonathan Haidt, "The Ethics of globalism, nationalism and patriotism"
James Pethokoukis considers the services factor:
http://www.aei.org/publication/another-explanation-for-americas-worrisome-productivity-slowdown/
From Apollo magazine: "Post-fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise."
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