Around the Traps 30/4/21

 It is time for Around the traps

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Greg Jericho on australia-has-wasted-so-many-years-when-it-comes-to-climate-change
• Leslie Hughes and Will Steffen on spot-the-difference-as-world-leaders-rose-to-the-occasion-at-the-biden-climate-summit-morrison-faltered
• Dennis Muller on 10-years-after-finkelstein-media-accountability-in-australia-has-gone-backwards
• Kevin Bonham on whats-this-then-commissioned-poll
• renew economy on morrison-finds-shameless-new-way-to-fake-climate-action-as-world-steps-up, battery-of-the-world-australias-key-role-in-fast-transition-to-wind-and-solar, wind-and-solar-deliver-stunning-price-demand-and-emissions-falls-in-main-grid, aemc-dumps-do-no-harm-rule-to-end-chaotic-response-to-system-strength-issues, esb-outlines-preferred-market-options-to-handle-accelerating-shift-to-renewables
• Samantha Hepburn on this-1-billion-energy-deal-promises-to-cut-emissions-and-secure-jobs-so-why-on-earth-is-gas-included
• Ivan Hanigan et al on more-people-die-in-winter-than-summer-but-climate-change-may-see-this-reverse
• Carissa Bonner and Racheal Todd on here-are-9-ways-we-can-make-it-easier-for-australians-to-get-the-covid-19-vaccine
• Ross Gittins on morrisons-budget-task-stop-economys-roar-turning-into-a-meow
• Liz Hicks on the-crisis-in-india-is-a-terrifying-example-of-why-we-need-a-better-way-to-get-australians-home
• Michael Toole on more-than-a-dozen-covid-leaks-in-6-months-to-protect-australians-its-time-to-move-quarantine-out-of-city-hotels
• Andrew Podger on is-australias-retirement-income-system-delivering-on-its-potential Thanks Peter Whiteford
• Institutional Economics on the-lowe-gap-revisited
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-3-economic-facts-point-to-a-big-spending-federal-budget
• Simon Sawyer on government-demands-for-arbitrary-performance-targets-are-contributing-to-ambulance-delays-paramedic-exhaustion
• Tony Walker on australia-would-be-wise-not-to-pound-war-drums-over-taiwan-with-so-much-at-stake
• Peter Martin on top-economists-back-budget-push-for-an-unemployment-rate-beginning-with-4
• croaking cassandra on economic-coercion, central-bank-independence

Northern America

• Barkley Rosser on bellwether-bullard-versus-sirenic
• run 75441 on politics-of-denialism
• John Quiggin on republicans-and-the-end-of-hard-neoliberalism
• the conversable economist on amazon-and-value-creation-bezos-farewell
• Nathaniel Rakich on congressional-republicans-left-office-in-droves-under-trump-just-how-conservative-are-their-replacements
• Macromania on labor-force-participation-gaps-between-US-and-Canada
• Laura Bronner et al on republicans-can-govern-without-winning-a-majority-that-threatens-our-entire-democracy

Europe

• stumbling and mumbling on on-selection-mechanisms, capitals-political-power
• Mainly Macro on eurozone-fiscal-rules-should-be-based-on-national-macro-stabilisation

Asia

• Aarti Betigeri on bhutan-happy-days-jab-between-strategic-pinch
• Syed Fazl-E-Haider on pakistan-s-extremist-dilemma
• noahopinion on chinas-government-is-starting-to-screw-up
• Catherine Renshaw on guiding-myanmar-away-from-ruin
• Usha Rodrigues on as-pressure-builds-on-indias-narendra-modi-is-his-government-trying-to-silence-its-critics
• Michael Clarke on some-reflections-anonymous-xinjiang-paper
• Kannan Nair on taiwan-renewing-southbound-vision

Wonk

• Menzie Chinn on guest-contribution-what-three-economists-taught-us-about-currency-arrangements
• Gabi Mocatta and Rebecca Harris on more-reasons-for-optimism-on-climate-change-than-weve-seen-for-decades-2-climate-experts-explain
• Tim Harford on why-we-fear-blood-clots, cautionary-tales-masterly-inactivity
• noahopinion on a-tall-stack-of-hot-takes
• Macromania on on-role-and-future-of-crytocurrencies
• the conversable economist on nine-principles-of-policing-from-1829
• Barkley Rosser on robert-mundell-and-supply-side-economics
• Anthony Burke on high-hopes-hot-air-climate-change
• Daisy Sibun on assessing-the-scope-and-adequacy-of-social-protection-responses Thanks Peter Whiteford

General

• No Hesitations on variational-bayes-for-newtork-estimation

Climate

• and Then Theres Physics on mind-your-units, some-thoughts-about-net-zero
• Royce Kurmelovs on insanely-cheap-energy-how-solar-power-continues-to-shock-the-world
• stoat on how-to-assess-multiple-interacting-of-climate-change
• moyhu on no-global-warming-is-not-50-of-what-CMIP6-models-predict

Andrew Gelman (mainly stats)

• open-data-and-quality-two-orthogonal-factors-of-a-study
  
• is-it-really-true-that-the-u-s-death-rate-in-2020-was-the-highest-above-normal-since-the-early-1900s-even-surpassing-the-calamity-of-the-1918-flu-pandemic
  
• the-multiverse-of-methods-extending-the-multiverse-analysis-to-address-data-collection-decisions
  
• the-pandemic-how-bad-is-it-really
  
• hullmans-theorem-of-graphical-perception
  
• probability-problem-involving-multiple-coronavirus-tests-in-the-same-household
  
• off-white-a-preliminary-taxonomy
  
• when-can-a-predictive-model-improve-by-anticipating-behavioral-reactions-to-its-predictions
  
• Kaiser Fung on us-regulators-asleep-at-the-wheel , the-statistics-behind-the-jj-blood-clot-decision, the-miracle-of-randomization-in-ab-testing-and-rcts

Econometrics

• Freakometrics on on reinforcement learning
• No Hesitations on the-pandemic-recession-ended-long-ago

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• nuttin

Vox Wonk

• reshaping-european-economic-integration-post-covid-world
  
• growing-concentration-wealth-italy
  
• taxing-wealth-context-extreme-inequality-legacy-case-south-africa
  
• working-home-during-covid-19-pandemic-updated-estimates
  
• voice-monetary-policy
  
• commodity-prices-and-banking-crises
  
• africa-s-latent-assets
  
• french-firms-through-covid-storm
  
• migration-and-post-pandemic-reboot-global-trade
  
• lockdowns-widen-gender-gap-mental-health
  
• addressing-impediments-digital-trade-new-ebook
  
• individualised-pricing-can-abate-market-power-and-mitigate-merger-effects
  
• machine-learning-natural-experiment
  
• appropriation-artists
  
• social-cost-carbon-and-inequality
  
• china-and-wto-two-systems-meet
  
• pitfalls-average-inflation-targeting-when-agents-have-imperfect-knowledge
  
• foreign-currency-corporate-borrowing-risks-and-policy-responses
  
• smaller-economic-stimulus-payments-could-boost-consumer-spending-more
  
• china-and-wto-uneasy-relationship