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Quantitative Easing and Monetary Aggregates – Paul Krugman The Taylor rule conundrum – Antonio Fatas Are Shifts in Industry Composition Holding Back Wage Growth? – macroblog Sellars and Bhaskar – Understanding Society Growing Incarceration Contributed Little to Drop in Crime – CBPP Net neutrality should apply to mobile networks – Digitopoly Racial Wealth Gaps: What…Read More…

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Research by Jaumotte and Carolina Osorio Buitron of the IMF finds that “The decline in unionization in recent decades has fed the rise in incomes at the top”: Power from the People: Inequality has risen in many advanced economies since the 1980s, largely because of the concentration of incomes at the top of the distribution.…Read More…

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Simon Wren-Lewis: Can helicopter money be democratic?: Helicopter money started as an abstract thought experiment…, in technical terms this is a combination of monetary policy (the creation of money) and fiscal policy (the government giving individuals money). Economists call such combinations a money financed fiscal stimulus. With the advent of Quantitative Easing (QE), it has…Read More…

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Brad DeLong: Making Do with More: If we as a species can avoid nuclear war; curb those among us who are violent because they are God-maddened, state-maddened, or ethnicity-maddened; properly coordinate global action to reduce global warming from its …Read More…

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At MoneyWatch: Is competition to attract businesses harmful?: State and local governments often use incentives such as tax cuts, rebates, promises of government services and the easing of regulatory restrictions to induce new or existing businesses to locate in their region. But this strategy raises some important questions: Do these policies work Do the costs…Read More…

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Explaining Recovery Performance in Europe – Paul Krugman The relative income problem – Stumbling and Mumbling U.S. R&D in (Troubling) Context – Tim Taylor How to Make College Cheaper – NYTimes.com Monetarism in Winter – Paul Krugman Working with …Read More…

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A follow-up to the Autor post below this one. This is by David Howell, a professor of economics and public policy at The New School in New York City: The links between institutions and shared growth, Washington Center for Equitable Growth: …since the 1980s, U.S. economic growth failed to produce enough jobs, and equally important,…Read More…

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Timothy Aeppel at the WSJ: Be Calm, Robots Aren’t About to Take Your Job, MIT Economist Says: David Autor knows a lot about robots. He doesn’t think they’re set to devour our jobs. … His is “the non-alarmist view”… Mr. Autor’s latest paper, presented to a packed audience at this year’s meeting of central bankers…Read More…

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Jason Furman, Ron Shadbegian, and Jim Stock: The cost of delaying action to stem climate change: A meta-analysis, Vox EU: Summary The cost of delaying climate action has been studied extensively. This column discusses new findings based on a meta-ana…Read More…

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Me, at MoneyWatch: What’s a fair tax rate? It depends: How progressive should the U.S. tax system be? Answering this question requires an assumption about what’s fair in terms of tax burdens across income groups. But people differ widely on what they consider fair. Therefore, fairness isn’t something economic theory can address. Instead, a principle…Read More…

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