Around the Traps 17/7/20

It is time for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Anne Kanis-Kumar et al on yes-there-are-millionaires-who-pay-no-tax-but-crimping-deductions-mightnt-help
• renew economy on patience-pays-off-as-worlds-biggest-solar-contractor-takes-leading-position-in-australia, crunch-time-for-clean-energy-funding-as-arena-board-deadline-looms, solar-exports-should-households-pay-for-right-to-export-more-solar-to-the-grid, cannon-brookes-tesla-lead-call-to-accelerate-energy-market-reforms
• Ross Gittins on morrison-is-taking-recovery-too-cheaply, dont-forget-those-pandemic-leaves-out-in-the-cold
• Geoff Bertram on power-play-despite-the-tough-talk-the-closure-of-tiwai-point-is-far-from-a-done-deal
• Richard Shaw on ahead-of-the-new-zealand-election-todd-mullers-resignation-is-a-national-nightmare-and-a-sign-of-a-toxic-political-culture
• Ann Twomey on palace-letters-show-the-queen-did-not-advise-or-encourage-kerr-to-sack-whitlam-government
• James Gilmour on with-no-work-in-lockdown-tour-operators-helped-find-coral-bleaching-on-western-australias-remote-reefs
• Jess Marsh on im-searching-firegrounds-for-surviving-kangaroo-island-micro-trapdoor-spiders-6-months-on-im-yet-to-find-any
• Rick Sarre and Juliet McIntyre on can-australian-businesses-force-customers-to-wear-a-mask-heres-what-the-law-says
• Anita Heyward and Raina McIntyre on eradication-elimination-suppression-lets-understand-what-they-mean-before-debating-australias-course
• Sam Roggeveen on canberra-vs-beijing-getting-serious-about-costs
• Institutional Economics on enduring-partners-the-us-australia, the-moral-panic-over-the-early-release-of-super
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-government-lockdown-costs-may-be-exaggerated-over-covid-19s-direct-economic-impact
• James Watt on devaluing-dfat
• Kevin Bonham on essentials-unweighted-voting-intentions

Northern America

• Ian Millhiser on supreme-court-term-liberals-win-conservative-john-roberts-neil-gorsuch-abortion-daca-guns
• the conversable economist on some-background-about-police-shootings, lower-tax-rates-or-less-tax-enforcement
• Allahpundit on whats-white-houses-strategy-going-fauci
• Erin Hurley on america-s-summertime-blues
• John Cassidy on anthony-fauci-is-a-better-economist-than-donald-trump-or-jared-kushner
• run75441 on speechless-trump-white-house-is-now-muzzling-bypassing-and-kneecapping-the-cdc
• Dylan Scott on ncovid-19-coronavirus-anthony-fauci-donald-trump-peter-navarro

Europe

• long and variable on we-need-a-new-uk-centre-for-epidemiology-and-economics
• Mary Harris on coronavirus-covid-sweden-herd-immunity
• Mainly Macro on why-election-for-new-liberal-leader-could-be-the-key-to-voting-johnson-out

Asia

• Henry Storey on brakes-beijing-s-ambition
• Khang Vu on kim-jong-un-zigs-kim-yo-jong-zags-and-how-north-korea-negotiates
• Adnan Aamir on obstacles-remain-pakistan-dam-backed-china
• Jen Kirby on israel-west-bank-annexation-palestine-netanyahu-trump
• Ross Tapsell on malaysias-media-crackdowns-are-being-driven-by-an-insecure-government-highly-sensitive-to-criticism
• Syed Haider on twisting-india-s-chicken-s-neck

Wonk

• stumbling and mumbling on the-deficit-myth-a-review, on-cancel-culture
• Brad De Long on the-obelisk-of-wokeness-the-dome-of-cancellation
• the conversable economist on the-us-dollar-in-global-economy
• Nick Gruen on evaluation-is-not-a-thing
• Menzue Chinn on recessions-vs-negative-output-gaps
• Akimoto Daiskuku on kind-test-world-doesn-t-need
• Tim Harford on what-will-bounce-back-after-the-pandemic-and-what-will-never-be-the-same

General

• Lisa Matiso-Smith and Anna Gosling on did-ancient-americans-settle-in-polynesia-the-evidence-doesnt-stack-up
• nick Haslem and Fabian Fabiano on is-psychiatry-shrinking-whats-considered-normal

Climate

• Paul Burke et al on carbon-pricing-works-the-largest-ever-study-puts-it-beyond-doubt
• Moyhu on giss-june-global-down-by-011-from-may
• Rachel Leihy and Steven Chown on humans-are-encroaching-on-antarcticas-last-wild-places-threatening-its-fragile-biodiversity
• David Roberts on climate-change-air-pollution-tracking-greenhouse-gas-emissions-trace-coalition
• David Appell on record-melting-of-arctic-sea-ice

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• blog-about-a-column-about-the-harpers-letter-heres-some-discourse-about-a-discourse-about-what-happens-when-the-discourse-takes-precedence-over-reality
• adjusting-for-type-m-error
• to-change-the-world-behavioral-intervention-research-will-need-to-get-serious-about-heterogeneity
• if-variation-in-effects-is-so-damn-important-and-so-damn-obvious-why-do-we-hear-so-little-about-it
• childrens-variety-seeking-in-food-choices
• further debate over mindset interventions
• conflicting-public-attitudes-on-redistribution
• what-does-it-take-to-be-omniscient
• probabilities-for-action-and-resistance-in-blades-in-the-dark
• trashed-3
• what-can-be-our-goals-and-what-is-too-much-to-hope-for-regarding-robust-statistical-procedures
• association-between-universal-curve-fitting-in-a-health-care-journal-and-journal-acceptance-among-health-care-researchers
• the-war-on-data-now-we-play-the-price
• dispelling-confusion-about-mrp-multilevel-regression-and-poststratification-for-survey-analysis
• Kaiser Fung on the-email-subject-line, another-covid19-victim-is-science-practice

Retired but still genial Dave Giles ( econometrics)

• Freakometrics on cascade regressions, regression on correlated variables

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• self-evident-truths
• Tim Harford on book-of-the-week-26-how-to-do-nothing-by-jenny-odell

VoxWonk

• recent-insights-role-religion-economic-history
• what-do-if-covid-19-here-stay
• covid-19-and-national-payments-system
• lessons-financial-crisis-prevent-great-fragmentation
• uk-lockdown-balancing-costs-against-benefits
• covid-19-threat-financial-stability-europe
• strengthening-institutional-architecture-emu-new-ebook
• prime-money-funds-during-covid-19
• pandemics-and-local-economic-growth-italy-during-great-influenza
• covid-19-and-labour-reallocation-evidence-us
• covid-19-government-payments-and-international-remittances
• temperature-disease-and-death
• covid-19-central-bank-digital-currencies-and-other-payments-instruments
• predictable-financial-crises
• potential-remote-working-across-different-places
• mask-mandates-reduced-spread-covid-19-us
• corporate-culture-theory-firm-role-values-customs-and-norms
• weighting-bias-and-inflation-time-covid-19
• robots-and-gender-pay-gap-europe
• covid-19-globotics-and-development