Around the Traps 29/1/21

 It is time for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Croaking Cassandra on a-year-on
• Sarah Duffy et al on its-not-just-cricket-australia-day-isnt-the-commercial-winner-it-used-to-be
• Tauel Harper on laws-making-social-media-firms-expose-major-covid-myths-could-help-australias-vaccine-rollout
• Archa Fox on not-sure-about-the-pfizer-vaccine-now-its-been-approved-in-australia-you-can-scratch-these-4-concerns-straight-off-your-list
• Ross Gittins on the-economy-doesnt-work-well-without-good-public-servants
• Kevin Bonham on the-federal-governments-majority-is-three-not-one
• Ketan Joshi on one-year-after-black-summer-bushfire-crisis-media-misinformation-still-burns
• Greg Jericho on australias-recession-is-weird-and-wacky-but-not-our-worst, its-not-just-the-pandemic-stupid-australias-economy-has-been-weak-for-years
• Lorinda Cramer on dressed-for-success-as-workers-return-to-the-office-men-might-finally-shed-their-suits-and-ties
• Adam Dunn on how-do-we-counter-covid-misinformation-challenge-it-directly-with-the-facts
• Cath Ferguson on most-government-information-on-covid-19-is-too-hard-for-the-average-australian-to-understand
• renew economy on barnaby-joyce-shows-why-a-coalition-government-may-never-embrace-climate-action, butler-dumped-as-labors-climate-opposition-collapses-at-a-truly-pivotal-moment, world-first-south-australia-achieves-100pct-solar-and-lowest-prices-in-australia
• Institutional Economics on reforming-australian-monetary-policy?
• Peter Whiteford on robodebt-was-a-policy-fiasco-with-a-human-cost-we-have-yet-to-fully-appreciate
• Jason Sharples et al on how-heatwaves-and-drought-combine-to-produce-the-perfect-firestorm
• Stephen Duckett and Anika Stobart on productivity-commission-health-report-provides-useful-information-but-leaves-some-big-questions-unanswered

Northern America

• Robert Waldmann on what-is-to-be-done-with-the-senate
• Aaron Rupar on fauci-birx-interviews-trump-coronavirus-response
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-republicans-oppose-deficits-only-when-democrats-hold-the-white-house
• Calculated Risk on a-few-comments-on-december-new-home-sales
• Erin Hurley on making-america-govern-again
• Zac Beauchamp on marjorie-taylor-green-kill-democrats-republicans-history-conspiracy-theories

Europe

• Binoy Kampmark on auf-wiedersehen-mutti-how-angela-merkels-centrist-politics-shaped-germany-and-europe
• Rob Mainwaring on as-britain-passes-100-000-covid-deaths-boris-johnson-is-in-a-crisis-of-his-own-making

Asia

• Barkley Rosser on is-biden-going-to-blow-reentering-iran
• Sanjay Ruparelia on indias-farmers-are-right-to-protest-against-agricultural-reforms
• Peter Beinart on what-the-lincoln-project-gets-wrong-about-israel-palestine

Wonk

• Mainly Macro on the-two-sides-of-austerity
• Tim Harford on is-first-dose-first-the-right-vaccination-strategy
• Robert Waldmann on desirable-incentive-effects-of-income-taxation-v
• and Then Theres Physics on alan-s-bottle
• stumbling and mumbling on endogenous-policy
• the conversable economist on the-importance-of-unimportant-inventions
• john rice and Nigel Martin on can-teslas-share-price-be-justified-probably-not
• Lowy Institute on covid-performance
• Raina Macintyre on can-vaccines-offer-exit-plan-covid-19
• Roger Farmer on rebuilding-macroeconomic-theory

General

• David Appell on the-10-greatest-predictions-in-physics
• Vincent Ho on do-men-really-take-longer-to-poo

Climate

• S Anna Florin et al on burnt-ancient-nutshells-reveal-the-story-of-climate-change-at-kakadu-now-drier-than-ever-before
• Ketan Joshi on wind-and-solar-lead-charge-as-renewables-overtake-fossil-fuels-in-europe
• Variable Variability on new-paper-multitest-climate-trends
• skeptical science on case study: identifying myths and fallacies in climate science

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• my-reply-three-words-fake-data-simulation
  
• tessa-hadley-on-john-updike
  
• the-norm-of-entertainment
  
• hierarchical-stacking
  
• three-coronavirus-quickies
  
• hierarchical-stacking-part-ii
  
• the-textbook-paradox-textbooks-more-than-a-very-few-years-old-cannot-even-be-given-away-but-new-textbooks-are-mostly-made-by-copying-from-former-ones
  
• tukeyian-uphill-battles
  
• there-is-only-one-reality-and-we-cannot-demand-consistency-from-any-other
  
• team-stanford
  
• i-was-drunk-at-the-podium-and-i-knew-my-results-werent-strong
  
• mortality-data-2015-2020-around-the-world/
  
• how-were-duped-by-data-and-how-we-can-do-better
  
• kill-the-math-in-the-intro-stat-course
  
• wombats-shttin-brix-in-the-tail
  
• statschat on the-8-solution
• Kaiser Fung on vaccines-free-you-from-the-herd, the-business-managers-guide-to-the-one-dose-two-dose-vaccine-debate, actions-have-consequences-the-messy-aftermath-of-one-dose-pfizer, how-the-uk-justified-its-vaccination-strategy

Econometrics

• the conversable economist on the-reproducibility-challenge-with-economic-data
• No Hesitations on machine-learning-advances-for-time-series-forecasting

Dianne Coyle (quirky+ book reviews)

• Henry Farrell on freedom-from-the-market
• Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading

vox wonk

• how-asylum-policies-deterred-jewish-migration-out-nazi-germany
  
• coronavirus-and-banking-evaluating-policy-options-avoiding-financial-crisis
  
• covid-19-and-migrant-workers-employment-prospects-europe
  
• dynamic-impact-exporting-firm-rd-investment
  
• brexit-uncertainty-and-trade-disintegration-europe-and-beyond
  
• impact-covid-19-firms-default-probability-japan
  
• dynamic-impact-exporting-firm-rd-investment
  
• brexit-uncertainty-and-trade-disintegration-europe-and-beyond
  
• scenario-analysis-contingency-planning-and-central-bank-communications
  
• when-flexible-exchange-rates-don-t-insulate-economies-external-shocks
  
• covid-19-stimulus-payments-evidence-japan
  
• doughnut-effect-covid-19-cities
  
• monetary-policy-and-productivity-new-transmission-channel
  
• moral-hazard-fear-markets-and-how-central-banks-responded-covid-19
  
• deaths-despair-and-incidence-excess-mortality-2020