Some essential papers in behavioral finance

Noah Smith

Inequality and Mobility, Again

Jared Bernstein

The Top 1% and the College Earnings Premium: Don’t Confuse Them (as Mankiw Does)

Jared Bernstein

Hayek, Friedman, and the Illusions of Conservative Economics

Robert Solow

The 1 percent needs better defenders

The Economist

Rand Paul: Not Aristotle

Elias Isquith

Greg Mankiw and the Gatsby Curve

Paul Krugman

The complacency of the meritocrats

Harold Pollack

Is Rand Paul’s Love of Ayn Rand a ‘Conspiracy’?

Jonathan Chait

Why Rand Paul Distrusts Democracy

Jonathan Chait

Rents and Returns: A Sketch of a Model (Very Wonkish)

Paul Krugman

7 Important Examples of How Markets Can Fail

Mark Thoma

Chart of the Day: America's 30-Year Project to Make the Rich Even Richer

Kevin Drum

Alan Krueger on how the music industry explains inequality

Neil Irwin

Pictures of the Corresive Linkage Between Higher Inequality and Diminished Opportunity

Jared Bernstein

How Schlubs Get Taken By Wall Street Pros

Karl Smith


Previously: Paul Krugman

Unproductive Finance

Paul Krugman

I think that the problem here would be lesser if entities were allowed to bid openly on this early information. In other words, that this is news is indicative of the problem.


UPDATE: Karl Smith weighs in, inimitably.

How the Spurs beat the Heat: the principle of financial arbitrage

Neil Irwin

No, Public Sector Jobs Do Not Crowd Out Private Sector Ones

Jared Bernstein

Why Conservatives Hate Citi Bike So Much, in One Venn Diagram

Dan Amira

The black/white marijuana arrest gap, in nine charts

Dylan Matthews

Ben Bernanke Endorses A 73 Percent Tax Rate [semi-satire]

Paul Krugman

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