Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Wrap Up for August 2021

When homeownership makes people selfish and exclusive.

What workplace learning options currently exist, which don't require college?

A perspective on "the economic origins of mass incarceration".

Some recycling has proven difficult to achieve profitably. Nevertheless, recycling progress is being made.

"big institutions can't get enough of family homes."

When "permanence" is out of reach: "At the very least, if we can't build infrastructure to last we should build infrastructure that can be repaired using material, energy and skills that are likely to be around when it inevitably fails, at some point in the future."

How much trust has really been lost?

What actually "constitutes a civilisation"?

The U.S. does a great job of freight railroads, but is lousy at passenger rail.

Water wars are coming to Texas.

Could tunnels provide efficient transportation?

Has inflation really gotten out of hand?

Deliberation as antidote to partisanship.

Degrowthers are essentially at an impasse.

Real estate property rights go well beyond the landowner.

Is something positive happening in rural America?

Building with what we already have in abundance. Plus, human scale, parts I and II. 

Authoritarian nationalism as the most important political development of the 21st century.

Giles Wilkes on the UK services productivity debate. Some refer to services as a foundational economy. Also, sectoral bragging isn't helpful. 

Oysters as a natural source of pollution removal.

Should childless Americans really be part of the culture war?

The Afghanistan war was in some respects actually a success. Indeed, it seems the country has gone back to its natural rulers.

Illustrations by county for rent affordability.

Population growth has dramatically declined.

Texas demographics are changing. Also, illustration for U.S. counties.

Variation and unpredictability slow down production processes.

Do intermediate services diminish the dangers of the Baumol effect?

"in low wage environments, low-income families will impart values of obedience to their children to prevent disadvantaging them in the labor market."

The U.S. became increasingly polarized over the last four decades.

"Sovereignty will steadily decline."

What caused the supply side losses for U.S. healthcare in the early 20th century? However, hospitals took a different market approach.

Preserving the Colorado River basin.

Climate change may also pose risks to growth.

What if the Taylor Rule had been strictly followed?

Why are so many resources for capital being idled? And, Before production gains showed up in worker's wages, early capitalists plowed their new wealth back into more capital to create further output.

Deficit hawks never got their moment. But why?

The Afghanistan tragedy has been twenty years in the making.

Aging demographics affect general equilibrium outcomes.

Stories we tell ourselves about ownership.

Universalism in economic behavior.

Which income groups are actually facing the most inflation?

In the 21st century, the term NIMBY became associated with an identifiable "villain". Consequently housing access is now recognized as a collective action problem.

"Most spending on goods and services isn't done by the rich, but by the poor and middle class."

Change is coming to rural areas.

Afghanistan's economic collapse. 

"The Financial Channel of Wage Ridigidy" And Scott Sumner reminds his readers of the relevance this paper holds for the musical chairs model.

Interest rates in a time of inequality and changing demographics.

Rural environs as the new Confederacy? 

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