Things to Read for Your Evening Procrastination on December 30, 2015

Over at Equitable Growth — The Equitablog:

• Nick Bunker: The 10 most popular Value Added posts of 2015d
• Today’s Economic History: Did the Classical Liberals Believe in Constructive Statecraft?
• Today’s Economic History: Writing Is (and Other Things Are) Not “Naturally” Human — Equitable Growth
• Mark Thoma: On Summers: My Views and the Fed’s Views on Secular Stagnation: “The Fed’s job would have been, and will be a lot easier if fiscal policy makers would help. I disagree with Charles Plosser’s view on monetary policy, but I have some sympathy for the view that many people have come to expect too much from monetary policy…”
• Noah Smith: Don’t Blame “Uncertainty” for the Slow Recovery
• William Nordhaus (2004): Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement
• Roger E.A. Farmer: Global Sunspots and Asset Prices in a Monetary Economy
• Roger Fouquet and Stephen Broadberry: Seven Centuries of European Economic Growth and Decline: “Rather than being stagnant, pre-nineteenth century European economies experienced a great deal of change…” :: How rapidly would one anticipate that the Malthusian scissors would work, anyway?
• Noam Scheiber and Patricia Cohen: For the Wealthiest, a Private Tax System That Saves Them Billions

And Over Here:

• Must-Read: Mark Thoma: On Summers: My Views and the Fed’s Views on Secular Stagnation
• Over at Project Syndicate: Piketty vs. Piketty
• Musings on the Current Episteme of the Federal Reserve…
• Live from the Westin Portland Harborside: ‘Give to me so that I don’t disappoint my Dad George H.W. Bush 41 again with my campaign…’ is a… rather unique fundraising pitch…
• Today’s Economic History: Did the Classical Liberals Believe in Constructive Statecraft?
• Live from the Westin Harborside Portland: Jim Henley’s Ire Is Roused by Politico…
• Must-Read: Noah Smith: Don’t Blame ‘Uncertainty’ for the Slow Recovery
• Liveblogging History: December 30, 1066: Granada Massacre
• Must-Read: William Nordhaus (2004): Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement
• Live from La Farine: We haven’t heard of ‘Obama’s Katrina’ in quite a while, have we? Five recent things worth reading, or what Paul Krugman said…
• Today’s Economic History: Writing Is (and Other Things Are) Not Naturally Human
• Must-Read: Roger Fouquet and Stephen Broadberry: Seven Centuries of European Economic Growth and Decline
• Must-Read: Dean Baker: The Upward Redistribution of Income: Are Rents the Story?
• The Archives: December 27-December 29, 2015
• Liveblogging World War I: December 29, 1915: The Ancona Case
• Liveblogging World War II: December 28, 1945: War Brides Act
• (Late) Monday Smackdown: Randall Kennedy’s Reasonable Discourses About Policy Edition

Might Like to Be Aware of:

• Kevin Kelly: Cool Tools
• Keith de Candido: Star Trek The Original Series Rewatch: “Mirror, Mirror”
• Richard Rodgers and Lorenz hart: Lyrics to “The Lady Is a Tramp”
• 16 Mobile Theses