Around the Traps 5/3/21

 it is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Greg Jericho on the-jobdobber-hotline-is-another-policy-aimed-at-keeping-wages-low, australias-economy-is-recovering-but-remains-very-much-in-need-of-government-stimulus
• Anna Howe on aged-care-death-and-taxes-after-the-royal-commission
• Ross Gittins on funding-budget-by-printing-money-is-closer-than-you-think, only-bipartisanship-will-let-us-relieve-us-of-the-squaller-of-aged-care
• Institutional Economics on the-bond-market-versus-yield-curve, updating-australias-business-cycle
• Neal Hughes on water-markets-arent-perfect-but-they-are-vital-to-the-future-of-the-murray-darling
• Stephen Duckett and Anita Stobart on 4-key-takeaways-from-the-aged-care-royal-commissions-final-report
• Kevin Bonham on the-howard-aggregation-1993-1996
• Sam Roggeveen on how-far-would-australia-go-defence-rules-based-order
• renew economy on aemo-abandons-plan-to-model-gas-led-recovery-after-idea-panned-by-energy-market, aemc-looks-beyond-coal-to-batteries-and-flexible-grid-to-manage-reliability
• Peter Martin on gdp-is-v-shaped-but-not-yet-good-these-three-graphs-tell-the-story
• Dennis Muller on has-christian-porter-been-subjected-to-a-trial-by-media-no-the-media-did-its-job-of-being-a-watchdog
• Jennifer Hsu on politics-being-chinese-australia
• Croaking Cassandra on no-idea-apparently-probably-not-much-interest
• Anabelle Lukin on can-scott-morrisons-rhetorical-style-cut-through-the-rising-tide-of-anger
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-in-the-battle-over-interest-rates-itd-be-unwise-to-bet-against-the-rba
• Rick Sarre on where-do-we-go-from-here-with-the-allegations-about-christian-porter

Northern America

• the conversable economist on the-coming-evolution-electric-power-in-the-US
• Ben Mathis-Lilley on andrew-cuomo-sowing-reaping
• David Graham on americas-andrew-cuomo-problem
• Darryl Pinkney on obama-promised-land-gift-long-game
• Kaleigh Rogers and Geoffrey Skelley on how-someone-like-marjorie-taylor-greene-could-win-again
• Menzie Chinn on a-literature-review-on-economic-policy-response-to-covid-19

Europe

• Mainly Macro on the-budget-should-create-balanced-recovery
• James empty blog on blueskiesresearchorguk-escape-velocity

Asia

• Graeme Smith on erasing-memory-china-s-tibet
• Michael Beltran on duterte-dynasty
• Anita Singh on india-must-be-realistic-about-russia-relations
• Menzie Chinn on the-rmbs-progress-in-internationalization
• Henry Storey on cracks-beginning-appear-russia-india-relationship

Wonk

• stumbling and mumbling on noise-interests-democracy, a-defence-of-maths-in-economics
• the grumpy economist on r-g
• Arindrajit Dube on impacts_of_minimum_wages_review_of_the_international_evidence thanks Brad
• John Quiggin on too-many-choices
• the conversable economist on teaching-current-monetary-policy
• Uneasy Money on the-hawley-smoot-tariff-and-the-great-depression

General

• Mardi McLean et al on life-on-the-hidden-doughnuts-of-the-great-barrier-reef-is-also-threatened-by-climate-change
• Roslyn Petelin on youse-wouldnt-believe-it-a-new-book-charts-the-11-year-making-of-a-peoples-dictionary-for-australia

Climate

• real science on laschamps-ing-at-the-bit
• and Then Theres Physics on losing-the-sky, net-zero

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• meg-wolitzer-and-george-v-higgins
  
• i-looked-for-questions-on-the-polio-vaccine-and-saw-one-in-1954-that-asked-if-you-wanted-to-get-it-60-said-yes-and-31-no
  
• here-is-how-you-should-title-the-next-book-you-write
  
• whats-the-best-novel-ever-written-by-an-85-year-old
  
• drew-bailey-on-backward-causal-questions-and-forward-causal-inference
  
• statistical-fallacies-in-international-relations-from-bob-jervis
  
• a-new-approach-to-pandemic-control-by-informing-people-of-their-social-distance-from-exposure
  
• marshmallow-update
  
• earliest-known-uses-of-some-of-the-words-of-mathematics
  
• statschat on trusting-the-wrong-data, is-four-a-lot

Econometrics

• No Hesitations on improved-measurement-of-real-gdp

Dianne Coyle ( quirky - book reviews)

• where-is-the-internet
  

vox wonk

• friedman-vs-phillips-historic-divide
  
• what-happens-if-bitcoin-succeeds
  
• comeback-r-g
  
• worldwide-building-height-gaps-their-determinants-and-their-implications
  
• antitrust-markets-pharmaceutical-industry
  
• oil-markets-fracking-and-global-economy
  
• us-excess-savings-are-not-excessive
  
• africa-s-manufacturing-puzzle-evidence-tanzanian-and-ethiopian-firms
  
• grandparental-childcare-and-covid-19
  
• assessing-aggregate-and-spatial-economic-impact-global-warming
  
• us-business-dynamism-rises
  
• information-sharing-and-geography-banking
  
• ai-and-jobs-evidence-us-vacancies
  
• how-institutional-investment-funds-reach-yield-intensifies-asset-price-volatility
  
• will-schumpeter-catch-covid-19-evidence-france
  
• person-schooling-and-community-spread-covid-19