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Human_Sacrifice.pdf (application/pdf Object) Wormtongue Speaks - Guy Fawkes' blog TCFAQ C5c) Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking Cost of Pennies The $100 bill as an economic indicator - Towards a leisure society FT loses its motherloving mind with ill-advised rap-themed front page opinion piece 6 People Whose Names Took on Regrettable Meanings | Cracked.com Lessons on School Choice from Sweden - Forbes Does the theory of comparative advantage apply to dolphins? How the Tax Burden Has Changed - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com The Obsession with Nominal Tax Rates or the Twinkie Romanticism | Balding's World U.S. birthrate plummets to its lowest level since 1920 - The Washington Post Treasuries, TIPS, and Gold (Wonkish) - NYTimes.com How To Win At Forecasting | Conversation | Edge Rise of the Robots - NYTimes.com The search for paedophiles is more carnival than witch-hunt | Hannah Betts | Comment is free | The Guardian Michael Gove is hailed as a rising star. He does not deserve it | Peter Wilby | Comment is free | The Guardian Hwang_JMP.pdf (application/pdf Object) Why I’m worried about Mark Carney’s Governorship | Ben Chu | Independent Eagle Eye Blogs The robot economy and the new rentier class | FT Alphaville Technology or Monopoly Power? - NYTimes.com Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Capital-biased technical change vs low interest rates? Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Darwin = Malthus + Sebright? Diffusion of technical change. mainly macro: How to try and get more inflation quickly Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Focal Points and the Short Run Phillips Curve; NGDPLPT beats PLPT Competition in schools | FT data Doubling down: PFI becomes “PF2″ | FT data Government spending: see which economies will spend the least by 2017 | News | guardian.co.uk Offshoring and Directed Technical Change Goldman's Jan Hatzius On Sectoral balances, NGDP Targeting, And The US Recovery - Business Insider Losing for tax purposes, a diagram | FT Alphaville Human Versus Physical Capital - NYTimes.com Defending the Romans | FT Alphaville Carney broaches dumping inflation target - FT.com Labour Taxed Poor More and Rich Less Than Coalition - Guy Fawkes' blog table2-4.pdf (application/pdf Object) table2-5.pdf (application/pdf Object) Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, stripes, and gaps. Theresa May's immigration speech: facts or fiction? | Jonathan Portes | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk Could the UK be the first country to adopt electronic money? - Quartz Police, Crime and the Usefulness of Economics How soon is now, UK NGDP targeting edition | FT Alphaville Macro and Other Market Musings: Paul Krugman Will Not Like These Figures Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Why are (almost all) economists unaware of Milton Friedman's thermostat? Why George Osborne believes everything is going to plan | Business | The Guardian Reykjavik here I come – so let me tell you about Singapore « The Market Monetarist TheMoneyIllusion » Where I’ve failed (so far) Tories Should Embrace Nominal GDP Level Targeting « uneconomical Carney/NGDPLPT Extravaganza « uneconomical Economic freedom and marriage go together like a horse and carriage – Telegraph Blogs Why 2012 was the best year ever » The Spectator The Brown bubble: the truth emerges » Spectator Blogs TheMoneyIllusion » Suggestion for Carney and Osborne: A NGDPLT/inflation hybrid TheMoneyIllusion » Suggestion for Carney and Osborne: A NGDPLT/inflation hybrid A question of identity - FT.com Not the Treasury view...: Indexing benefits to inflation is not "unsustainable" Gun homicides and gun ownership listed by country | News | guardian.co.uk Immigration: 'If someone asks, I’m British, end of story’ - Telegraph Why the Poles keep coming » Spectator Blogs Clegg has a mind-altering plan for power - Comment - Voices - The Independent Sifting through the Autumn Statement’s stats | Money Supply Bad news forecast for chancellor - FT.com Japan election: Shinzo Abe’s plan to save the Japanese economy. - Slate Magazine Power, Sociologically Speaking » The Society Pages Dr Park Dietz: Dangerous minds - Profiles - People - The Independent Assault Deaths within the United States - Kieran Healy Elephants engage in Mengerian indirect exchange How minimal is our intelligence? Twelve facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States mainly macro: Comparing the UK and US recoveries The Conservative Party | News | Speeches | George Osborne: Policy making after the crash Sometimes UBS Traders Manipulated Libor Just To Mess With Each Other « Dealbreaker: Wall Street Insider – Financial News, Headlines, Commentary and Analysis – Hedge Funds, Private Equity, Banks This Is Not a Profile of Nassim Taleb - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education The Mayan flop: why can't we have a home-grown apocalypse? – Telegraph Blogs NHS privatisation fears? Grow up | Ian Birrell | Comment is free | The Guardian Private healthcare: the lessons from Sweden | Society | The Guardian Everything You Need To Know About the Economy in 2012, in 34 Charts - Matthew O'Brien - The Atlantic We need a recipe to solve food poverty » Spectator Blogs Etude sur la politique monétaire et la crise | Fondapol Have the men in blue crossed the line? - Telegraph Evolution of lactose tolerance: Why do humans keep drinking milk? - Slate Magazine The Big Society, from England David Smith's EconomicsUK.com: Money GDP - no panacea So you think the wealth gap is growing? Wrong - Comment - Voices - The Independent The Egalitarian Coalition | John Rentoul | Independent Eagle Eye Blogs Understanding the wedge between productivity and median compensation growth | Economic Policy Institute 2012: The Year in Graphs A dad was the tenth most wanted Christmas present. This is the real culture war – Telegraph Blogs TheMoneyIllusion » It’s (almost) all about the Benjamins Smart machines and long-term misery - Towards a leisure society The tech debate blasts off (a linkfest) - Towards a leisure society Noahpinion: Trust not in Shinzo Abe, ye monetarists! SMBC Theater - Scrooge - YouTube Rape and sexual violence are not cultural phenomenons in India - they are endemic everywhere - Comment - Voices - The Independent Creating a "Fourth Culture" of Knowledge: Jonah Lehrer on Why Science and Art Need Each Other | Brain Pickings What Is Science? From Feynman to Sagan to Curie, an Omnibus of Definitions | Brain Pickings When robots become slaves - Towards a leisure society BBC - Archive - Coal Mining in Britain - Panorama | Is The Coal Face Crumbling? TheMoneyIllusion » Feed the dragon (but not too much) Stocks to soar as world money catches fire, Calvinst Europe left behind - Telegraph TheMoneyIllusion » The history of an idea The Blogger Who Saved the Economy - Derek Thompson - The Atlantic 25-1.pdf (application/pdf Object) WP433.pdf (application/pdf Object) BM_Report.pdf (application/pdf Object) TheMoneyIllusion » Newly fashionable ideas Noahpinion: How Zero Hedge makes your money vanish A Theory of Case-Based Decisions: Itzhak Gilboa, David Schmeidler: 9780521802345: Amazon.com: Books TheMoneyIllusion » The Great Danes TheMoneyIllusion » A short course in monetary theory Daily chart: A historic year | The Economist TheMoneyIllusion » Is the term ‘political art’ an oxymoron? (Part 2) Slate - Dismal Scientist - March 20, 1997 21-1.pdf (application/pdf Object) what_glo.pdf (application/pdf Object) I Have a Moral Hazard Fantasy… | feed on my links Should the Fed save Europe from disaster? - Telegraph The Institute For Fiscal Studies - Government expenditures and economic growth: the supply and demand sides Economic performance and government size Inflation in the service economy: Impossible to measure. Shouting Into The Void | The Problem With The Big Bang Theory... IEA Redefining Poverty Debate.pdf (application/pdf Object) Habermas - Equal Treatment of Cultures and Limits of Postmodern Liberalism.pdf (application/pdf Object) Switzerland and Britain are now at currency war – Telegraph Blogs Mark Lynas » Lecture to Oxford Farming Conference, 3 January 2013 Inflation targeting is dead: Long live nominal GDP targeting | vox Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: How do the French control the size of the Sun? Hume vs Patinkin. Central banks can phase in nominal GDP targets without damaging the inflation anchor | vox Regime change at the Bank of England? « Left Outside Search: beat a path to scott sumner's door Words won't change capitalism. So be daring and do something | Will Hutton | Comment is free | The Observer mainly macro: 2010 and Monetary Policy in the UK mainly macro: The Zero Lower Bound and Output Gap Uncertainty Search Results wren-lewis « uneconomical mainly macro: The Balanced Budget Expansion Debate Begins? TheMoneyIllusion » Nobel Prizes for alchemy? Is the Bank of England “In Control”? « uneconomical Uncertainty Rules UK « uneconomical Guardian Headlines You Didn’t Read Today, Spencer Dale Edition « uneconomical Demand Accountability « uneconomical Optimal Monetary Policy in a Liquidity Trap TheMoneyIllusion » It’s tough to argue against an identity Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Why "saving" should be abolished QE — very different in the UK | Macro Exposure en_viewpoint_quantitative_easing_dec 2012.pdf (application/pdf Object) The Green Benches: Exposed: £90 billion+ of tax payers money wasted by Tory stupidity & policy making EconPapers: What's in a Name? economic imperialism.pdf (application/pdf Object) Stumbling and Mumbling: The investment problem Stumbling and Mumbling: Corporate tax incidence: some evidence Stumbling and Mumbling: The Chigley politics of the living wage Stumbling and Mumbling: Some doubts about NGDP targets Stumbling and Mumbling: A closet NGDP targeter? The real central bank target is not inflation | City A.M. Stumbling and Mumbling: Demand or productivity? dp2352.pdf (application/pdf Object) sercdp0034.pdf (application/pdf Object) Stumbling and Mumbling: Inequality: power vs human capital Manifesto | Steve Keen's Debtwatch Pain Relief | ThinkProgress TheMoneyIllusion » Causality is socially constructed What can other countries tell us about Britain’s labour productivity puzzle? | FT data House of Commons - Business, Innovation and Skills Committee - Written Evidence Be Ready To Mint That Coin - NYTimes.com Why was the Industrial Revolution British? | vox Raiders of the QE surplus | FT Alphaville Helicopter_Money_Final1.pdf (application/pdf Object) The economics of the platinum coin option: Platinomics | The Economist TheMoneyIllusion » Why NGDP matters TheMoneyIllusion » That “ungainly” NGDP Exeter fresher loses fives, finds himself in Edinburgh | The Tab Oxford Give profit-making schools a chance » Spectator Blogs The Myth of Africa's Rise - By Rick Rowden | Foreign Policy On diminishing capital intensity | FT Alphaville Chris Grayling takes one step forward on probation, then one giant step back on jails | Ian Birrell | Comment is free | The Guardian Deregulation: the time is right to drain the swamp - Telegraph Blueprint for a Woman’s Life | Penelope Trunk Blog Unemployment: it’s not all back to the 1970s, but a serious chunk of it might be | FT Alphaville Mr. President, don’t mint that platinum coin! Narayana Kocherlakota's Duluth speech—a masterpiece of intellectual rigor. TheMoneyIllusion » Anything IS-LM can do, Fisher did better Economics blogs: A less dismal debate | The Economist Economics focus: Changing target | The Economist golden balls. the weirdest split or steal ever! - YouTube TheMoneyIllusion » Balls of Steal (Aka Proud to be human) Worthwhile Canadian Initiative: Did inflation targeting make inflation stickier? Measuring inflation (not that wonkish, really) | Money Supply The IMF and multipliers, again | Money Supply Why don’t people have more sex? Trudie on long-distance relationships China’s non-conforming GDP growth | FT Alphaville Sociological Speculation: The Sleepless World: One more piece of low hanging fruit? TheMoneyIllusion » The Great Inflation was caused by the Fed increasing the currency stock TheMoneyIllusion » Why I don’t believe in liquidity traps TheMoneyIllusion » A serious error by Robert Hall and the JEP Commodity volatility, where art thou? | FT Alphaville When cash costs extra (9% extra) | FT Alphaville Stumbling and Mumbling: Marxism & freedom The “Monetary Pope” has spoken | Historinhas Question 4: Monetary Policy - FT.com interfluidity » On Tyler Cowen’s “Great Stagnation” Opposite Day: Tyrone on the minimum wage O-ring and foolproof sectors - Evolving Economics They eat horses, don't they? - Telegraph TheMoneyIllusion » Why Bernanke’s debt-deflation article is wrong Once you turn base money into short-term debt, can you go back? | FT Alphaville The subpriming of commodities | FT Alphaville interfluidity » Expectations can be frustrated Stumbling and Mumbling: Fiscal policy & the Overton window pinker_comments_on_lead_removal_and_declining_crime.pdf (application/pdf Object) Tuition fees: the surprising winners and losers - Telegraph A living wage, or a much higher minimum wage, is worth paying - Telegraph TheMoneyIllusion » Do higher interest rates really cause inflation? TheMoneyIllusion » Money demand slopes downward. Higher interest rates raise velocity. Period. End of story. interfluidity » A confederacy of dorks The Technium: I'll Pay You to Read My Book Wie Europas Steuerwelt auseinanderfällt « Allgemein « Data Blog Central bank gold reserves: Monetary economics with a vengeance | The Economist Romer_and_Romer Fed_Anniversary_Session Manuscript.pdf (application/pdf Object) 5 Things You Won't Believe Math Can Predict | Cracked.com Handicapping the Contenders to Replace Bernanke - Bloomberg Can haz spredshetz | FT Alphaville Given the state of Britain's economy, Capable (Mark) Carney needs to work miracles - Comment - Voices - The Independent A brief history of macro: How we got here | The Economist Economics after the crisis: New model army | The Economist