Noted for Your Morning Procrastination for August 11, 2015

Must- and Should-Reads:

• Must-Remember: Richard Thaler: “A Gentleman’s C- in a World Where Nobody Gets Less than a B…”
• Must-Read: Thomas Palley: The New Economics of Trade
• Robert Waldmann: “So do I get this right — Paul Romer is saying that if Robert Solow were a nice polite guy like Rudi Dornbush then everything would be fine now?”
• Paul Krugman: Cap and Trade and Polarization
• Roger Farmer (2014): Real Business Cycle Theory and the High School Olympics
• Must-Read: Paul Romer: On George Stigler
• Mitch Kapor: Our $40 Million Pledge to Fix the Leaky Tech Pipeline
• Paul Krugman: Knitting History
• Mike Bird: Nobody Believes China’s Growth Figures — and the Truth Could Be Much Worse
• David Cay Johnston: Flat Wages Show US Doesn’t Have a Labor Market: Government Action Required to Correct Imbalance in Employer Power
• David Cay Johnston: Why America’s Inequality Problem Is About a Lot More Than Money
• Stefan Wagstyl, Duncan Robinson, and Kerin Hope: Greece nears €86bn accord with creditors

Over at Equitable Growth — The Equitablog

• Nick Bunker: The distribution of pay and the willingness to quit among U.S. workers
• In Which Paul Krugman Drags Me Back into the Chicago Macroeconomic Isolation Discussion
• In Which I Agree in Part and Dissent in Part with Paul Romer’s Narrative of the Intellectual Collapse of Chicago-School Macro
• In Which I Once Again Bet on a Substantial Growth Slowdown in China… — Washington Center for Equitable Growth

Plus:

• Things to Read on the Morning of August 11, 2015

And Over Here:

• Liveblogging World War II: August 11, 1945: Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S Truman
• In Which I Once Again Bet on a Substantial Growth Slowdown in China…
• Must-Read: Why American finance today is in substantial part a value-subtracting activity
• A Now-Extended Non-Sokratic Dialogue on Webite Design: The Honest Broker for the Week of August 3, 2015
• : an We Please Shut the New York Times Now?: Steve M.:: Shorter Maureen Dowd: ‘Yeah, [Trump’s] abusive to women, and he’s actually left me too intimidated to write about him until now…
• Must-Remember: Richard Thaler: ‘The belief that asset prices are always rational…. I give that a gentleman’s C- in a world where nobody gets less than a B…’
• Must-Read: Thomas Palley: The New Economics of Trade
• Liveblogging World War II: August 10, 1045: Post-Nagasaki
• Links and Tweets for the Week of August 3, 2015
• In Which I Agree in Part and Dissent in Part with Paul Romer’s Narrative of the Intellectual Collapse of Chicago-School Macro
• Maciej Cegłowski: Web Design — The First 100 Years: Weekend Reading
• Must-Read: Paul Romer sets out his theory of George Stigler
• Yes, Donald Trump Won the First Republican Primary Debare. Why Do You Ask?:
• Just Think: Every Republican Candidate Thinks Donald Trump Is Qualified to Be President, and Has Pledged to Support Him If He Wins the Republican Nomination…

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Maciej Cegłowski
• Maciej Cegłowski (2005): The Space Shuttle: A Rocket To Nowhere
• The Republican Rape Advisory Chart
• A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning, Part I
• Zandar**: “Of all the problems of his own making that plague Kansas GOP Gov. Sam Brownback… economy disintegrating under tax cuts for the rich… school districts that can’t… keep the lights on… [or keep] teachers… the most interesting problem may be his asshole brother Jim…”
• Shishito Peppers | Trader Joe’s
• John Tang
• #Uncharted2015
• Silva Bakery
• Go Chaatzz
• Reid Wilson: [“Real estate magnate Donald Trump’s lead over the Republican field grew in the several days after his performance at the first GOP presidential debate…”]((http://morningconsult.com/2015/08/trumps-lead-grows-after-debate-controversy/)
• Amanda Taub: [what people really mean when they talk about political correctness… his browser… automatically change[s] all mentions of the term ‘political correctness’ to ‘treating people with respect’…”]((http://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9118339/political-correctness-respect)
• Todd van der Werff: Ricki and the Flash