Around the Traps 26/2/21

 It is time for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Greg Jericho on australias-recovery-appears-to-be-going-well-but-its-still-very-weird-out-there, the-jobseeker-increase-is-pathetic-and-so-is-the-spin-to-justify-the-paltry-amount
• David Walker on cracking-the-code-how-to-tell-what-news-corp-really-thinks-about-the-price-of-links
• core economics on australia-surrenders-to-monopolists-and-codifies-corporate-oligarchy
• Joshua Gans on facebook-versus-australia-the-government-hands-facebook-a-free-pass
• Ross Garnaut on the-reset-to-lift-us-out-of-the-covid-recession-has-to-be-bold-returning-to-where-we-were-is-nowhere-near-good-enough
• Dennis Muller on is-sky-news-shifting-australian-politics-to-the-right-not-yet-but-there-is-cause-for-alarm
• Ross Gittins on heres-unspeakable-truth-about-fall-in-rates, ross-garnauts-new-plan-to-lift-us-out-of-mediocrity
• renew economy on australias-battery-and-hydrogen-storage-pipeline-jumped-by-massive-20gw-in-2020
• Croaking Cassandra on monetary-policy, not-that-good-really
• Ketan Joshi on australia-was-the-first-casualty-of-the-big-blackout-lie-blaming-wind-power-the-us-could-be-next
• Simon Wilke on the-news-media-bargaining-code-could-backfire-if-small-media-outlets-arent-protected-an-economist-explains
• Hassan Vally on catching-covid-from-surfaces-is-very-unlikely-so-perhaps-we-can-ease-up-on-the-disinfecting
• renew economy on coal-generators-fined-after-failing-to-match-big-batteries-and-putting-grid-at-risk, tidal-wave-of-new-wind-and-solar-will-force-early-coal-plant-closures, neoen-lands-160-million-in-cefc-finance-for-australias-biggest-battery
• Adam Morton on renewable-energy-could-render-five-of-australias-remaining-coal-plants-unviable-by-2025
• Barbara Morton et al on fires-bring-home-climate-driven-urgency-of-rethinking-where-we-live-and-how
• Charles Livingstone on melbourne-finally-has-a-crown-royal-commission-is-this-going-to-stop-crime-and-gambling-harm
• Peter Whiteford and Bruce Bradbury on the-50-boost-to-jobseeker-will-take-australias-payment-from-the-lowest-in-the-oecd-to-the-second-lowest-after-greece
• John Quiggin on facebook-versus-news-advertising-is-the-real-problem
• Tim Nelson and Joel Gilmore on the-texas-deep-freeze-left-the-state-in-crisis-here-are-3-lessons-for-australia
• Michael McGreevey and Fran Baum on against-the-odds-south-australia-is-a-renewable-energy-powerhouse-how-on-earth-did-they-do-it
• Bruce Mountain on texas-was-a-warning-australia-needs-to-rethink-the-design-of-its-electricity-market

Northern America

• Cameron Peters on texas-high-electric-bills-winter-storm-griddy
• Mark Joseph Stern on clarence-thomas-voter-fraud-trump-pennsylvania
• Steve from Brisbane on waving-bloody-shirt
• Geoffrey Skulley on why-was-the-national-polling-environment-so-off-in-2020
• Calculated Risk on a-few-comments-on-january-new-home-sales
• Lucas Schaeffer on texas-gerrymandering-freeze-power-outages-chip-roy
• Robert Gordon on robert-j-gordon-thoughts-on-long-run-us-productivity-growth
• Tyler Cowen on texas-utilities-should-have-had-more-dynamic-pricing
• Menzie Chinn on globalization-and-inflation-risks
• Laurence Tribe on justice-thomas-is-out-of-order-on-2020-election

Europe

• stumbling and mumbling on why-labour-should-talk-about-productivity

Asia

• Andrew Selth on myanmar-coup-will-test-loyalty-security-forces
• Barkley Rosser on is-china-committing-genocide-in-xinjiang
• Natasha Kassam and Darren Lim on how-china-is-remaking-the-world-in-its-vision
• Syed Fazl E Haider on leave-or-not-leave-question
• Oriana Mastro on what-are-china-s-leaders-saying-about-south-china-sea

Wonk

• Tim Harford on were-living-in-a-golden-age-of-ignorance
• the conversable economist on the-minimum-wage-controversy
• Macromania on a-journey-in-macroeconomic-thinking
• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-central-bank-digital-currency-some-macro-financial-implications
• Dominic Dwyer on i-was-the-australian-doctor-on-the-whos-covid-19-mission-to-china-heres-what-we-found-about-the-origins-of-the-coronavirus
• Sam Roggeveen on democracy-vs-autocracy-biden-inflection-point
• Mainly Macro on two-paths-to-controlling-covid-with-vaccinations
• Alex Tabbarok on the-astrazeneca-vaccine-works-well

General

• Mark Pellegrini on can-i-choose-what-vaccine-i-get-what-if-i-have-allergies-or-side-effects-key-covid-vaccine-rollout-questions-answered

Climate

• No Hesitations on amazing-warming-paper
• Peter Sinclair on mike-mann-on-climate-change-and-cold-air-outbreaks
• Desmog on why-united-states-rejoining-paris-climate-accord-matters
• Skeptical Science on climate lessons from the texas frozen power outages
• Dana Bergstrom et al on existential-threat-to-our-survival-see-the-19-australian-ecosystems-already-collapsing

Andrew Gelman (mainly stats)

• fake-data-simulation-why-does-it-work-so-well
  
• is-sqrt2-a-normal-number
  
• statisticians-dont-use-statistical-evidence-to-decide-what-statistical-methods-to-use-also-the-way-of-the-physicist
  
• ethics-washing-ethics-bashing
  
• rapid-prepublication-peer-review
  
• what-is-the-relevance-of-bad-science-to-our-understanding-of-good-science
  
• should-we-judge-pundits-based-on-their-demonstrated-willingness-to-learn-from-their-mistakes
  
• men-appear-twice-as-often-as-women-in-news-photos-on-facebook
  
• science-reform-can-get-so-personal
  
• stanford-prison-experiment
  
• multivariate-missing-data-software-update
  
• statschat on bitcoin-and-eftpos

Econometrics

• Freakometrics on principal component analysis
• No Hesitations on bridging-sparse-models-and-factor-models

Dianne Coyle (quirky + book reviews)

• big-conversations
  
• railways-and-culture
  
• Andrew Gelman on luc-sante-on-nick-hornby-and-geoffrey-obrien-on-pop-music

vox wonk

• pandemics-swing-elections-not-much-you-think
  
• geography-innovation-between-1866-and-today
  
• refugees-and-responsibility-sharing
  
• institutions-and-power-structure
  
• subnational-governments-and-making-development-africa
  
• institutions-and-power-structure
  
• why-us-currently-has-best-research-universities-incentives-resources-and-virtuous-circles
  
• jim-crow-saddle
  
• three-changes-regulatory-framework-renewable-energy-help-save-humanity-s-future
  
• pandemic-and-greece-s-debt-day-after
  
• shaping-africa-s-post-covid-recovery-new-ebook
  
• how-much-capital-should-banks-hold
  
• ecb-monetary-policy-communications-and-financial-market-responses
  
• firm-exit-patterns-and-post-covid-cleansing-mechanism