Must Read
- Jill Lepore, The Disruption Machine: What the Gospel of Innovation Gets Wrong
- Matthew Yglesias, The US recovery has been a disaster; the eurozone’s has been much worse
- Charlie Pierce, The Logical End of Things
Should Read
- Vox, Brazil’s recent fight against deforestation has been a huge success
- Jeff Spross, Right Now We ‘Grossly Underestimate’ Economic Damage From Climate Change, New Paper Says
- Brad DeLong, Why Aren’t More People Looking at Nominal Wage Growth?
- Jared Bernstein, Labor Supply and the Poor: Some Facts That Might (or Might Not) Surprise You
Health Care
- Boston.com, U.S. Health Care System Is a Bad Investment
- Aaron Carroll, Zombie arguments defending the US healthcare system
Economics
- Mark Thoma, Why income redistribution doesn’t hurt growth
- Congression Budget Office, The U.S. Federal Budget (in graphical form)
- Jared Bernstein, A Very Brief History of Slack in the US Economy
- Wikipedia, Household income in the United States
Environment
- Patricia L. Corcoran, Charles J. Moore, Kelly Jazvac, An anthropogenic marker horizon in the future rock record
- NY Times, Arizona Cities Could Face Cutbacks in Water From Colorado River, Officials Say
- California Weather Blog, Rainy season ends in California; exceptional drought continues to intensify