Friday, June 24, 2011

I am reading this

Posted by dkuehn at 7:53 AM
...if I am not in the waves, sipping some wine, or fishing

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  1. Gary GunnelsJune 24, 2011 at 8:55 AM

    I'm sure all the "nation building"* we're about to do at home will fix all of that. Though of course we're still going to have more boots on the ground in Afghanistan than when Obama entered office.

    *Is there a more Orwellian term in public discourse these days? Maybe "kinetic military action" is worse, but not by much.

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    So what is this work's main thesis exactly?

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  2. Daniel KuehnJune 24, 2011 at 9:03 AM

    Countering conventional wisdom that says the labor market is being "hollowed out" of good middle-skill jobs. It uses the LEHD which is a great new employer-employee linked dataset that I hope to be able to use for my dissertation.

    I'm reading it for a literature review I'm writing for work for your "New Unemployment Project" - which is a series of publications on unemploypment in the Great Recession.

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  3. Gary GunnelsJune 24, 2011 at 9:16 AM

    Isn't that the CW only amongst the talking heads on CNN, MSNBC, etc. and politicians?

    There was a lot of talk about that sort of thing in the recent Republican debate of course, and even someone who should have known better - Ron Paul - went along with it.

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  4. Daniel KuehnJune 24, 2011 at 10:10 AM

    I'm not even sure if talking heads have much of an opinion on this.

    This book is largely in response to an economic literature by Autor, Levy, Murname, etc.

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  5. Gary GunnelsJune 24, 2011 at 10:17 AM

    Well, talking heads are all the time discussing the "hollowing out" of the American middle class.

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  6. Gary GunnelsJune 24, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    Link I thought I would pass on:

    http://reason.com/archives/2011/06/24/the-unseen-effects-of-stimulus

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  7. PortoflioJune 24, 2011 at 8:52 PM

    Hey Daniel,

    This isn't related, but I was thinking back on something you said relating Posner and I was wondering if you read that book you told me about: A Failure of Capitalism?

    I'm considering getting it since I've only read one take on the crisis(in Iceland) and was wondering if you would recommend it.

    Thanks

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  8. dkuehnJune 30, 2011 at 7:03 AM

    Octahedron -
    I haven't read it yet. I've been thinking some recently about Posner's "conversion" to Keynesianism, so I was thinking of picking it up.

    So I can't recommend one way or the other. I've heard the book is a little hurried (understandable given how quickly it came out), but obviously Posner is a thoughtful guy. I won't get to it any time soon.

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  9. PortoflioJuly 2, 2011 at 1:29 PM

    Alright thanks. I'm currently reading Tragedy of the Euro by Bagus in the meantime since the ebook version was free.

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