Around the Traps 20/8/21

 It is time for Around the Traps again.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Ricardian Ambivalence on how-much-is-enough-for-the-rba-to-act-in-sep, what-i-learnt-from-the-august-rba-minutes
• Greg Jericho on think-morrison-was-wrong-about-electric-cars-and-weekends-wait-till-you-hear-him-on-emissions, an-end-to-australias-iron-ore-export-boom-is-just-what-the-economy-doesnt-need, australias-latest-wage-figures-are-terrible-and-we-cant-blame-the-pandemic
• Frank Bongiorno on right-out-there-how-the-pandemic-has-given-rise-to-extreme-views-and-fractured-conservative-politics
• Ross Gittins on afterpay-tells-us-were-suckers-for-the-illusion-of-free, its-rich-wot-get-to-complain-and-poor-wot-get-infected
• Graeme Orr on whos-liberal-whats-labor-new-bill-to-give-established-parties-control-of-their-names-is-full-of-holes
• Kirsty Busing et al on we-studied-how-to-reduce-airborne-covid-spread-in-hospitals-heres-what-we-learnt
• renew economy on study-finds-blue-hydrogen-worse-for-climate-than-burning-coal-or-gas, shipping-blues-solar-pv-price-crunch-drives-shift-to-lower-cost-suppliers, taylors-favoured-coal-subsidy-could-reach-7-billion-and-hit-households
• Croaking Cassandra on looking-towards-the-mps-2, on-the-mps, funding-for-lending
• Peter Martin on australia-is-at-risk-of-taking-the-wrong-tack-at-the-glasgow-climate-talks-and-slamming-china-is-only-part-of-it
• Claire Higgins on afghan-refugees-can-no-longer-wait-australia-must-offer-permanent-protection-now
• Saam Roggeveen on china-debate-not-just-matter-hawks-and-doves
• John Quiggin on bhps-offloading-of-oil-and-gas-assets-shows-the-global-market-has-turned-on-fossil-fuels
• Kevin Davis on no-longer-a-temporary-covid-measure-the-governments-super-changes-will-most-help-wealthy-tax-dodgers
• Kevin Forster on owning-up-australia-must-admit-its-involvement-in-afghanistan-has-been-an-abject-failure
• Institutional Economics on cheems-mindset-at-martin-place
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-4-6-unemployment-rate-hints-at-whats-possible-but-its-not-the-real-thing
• Hassan Vally on should-we-give-up-on-covid-zero-until-most-of-us-are-vaccinated-we-cant-live-with-the-virus
• Catherine Bennett on it-might-not-feel-like-it-as-cases-rise-but-nsw-is-controlling-delta, pfizer-vaccinations-for-16-to-39-year-olds-is-welcome-news-but-astrazeneca-remains-a-good-option

Northern America

• Adam Serwer on texas-politics-are-dangerously-broken Thanks Brad
• Nicole Narea on texas-abbott-legislature-voting-covid-immigration
• noahopinion on dont-rely-on-supply-side-policy-to-fight-inflation, the-afghanistan-occupation-and-the-japanese-occupation, the-2020-census-and-americas-racial-system, cultural-gatekeeping
• Mark Stern on ron-desantis-florida-gerrymander-house-republicans
• the conversable economist on the-pandemic-recession-what-was-different-in-labor-markets, pandemic-recession-the-shortest-on-record
• Calculated Risk on comments-on-july-housing-starts
• Andrew Prokop on biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-reasons
• Ben Scott on decoding-intelligence-afghanistan
• the grumpy economist on masks-redux

Europe

• Marcus Colla on germany-federal-election-choose-any-colour-you-like

Asia

• Natasha Lindstaendt on afghanistan-taliban-victory-inevitable-despite-the-trillions-the-us-poured-in
• Timothy Rich et al on the-interpreter/taiwan-age-old-question-who-gets-vote
• Tony Walker on as-afghanistan-falls-what-does-it-mean-for-the-middle-east
• William Maley on how-joe-biden-failed-the-people-of-afghanistan-and-tarnished-us-credibility-around-the-world
• Rodger Shanahan on afghanistan-right-time-leave
• Edmond Roy on kabul-has-fallen-and-so-have-we
• Sussane Schmeidl on what-do-after-taliban-take-over
• Niamuttulah Ibrahami and Safiulla Tye on the-taliban-wants-the-worlds-trust-to-achieve-this-it-will-need-to-make-some-difficult-choices
• Purnendra Jain and Takeshi Kobayshi on double-challenge-suga
• Stuti Bhatnagur on afghanistan-s-collapse-shift-strategic-dynamics-south-asia
• Kori Schake on us-afghanistan-taliban-training
• Hanif Sufizada on an-afghan-american-scholar-describes-his-fear-filled-journey-from-the-chaos-at-kabul-airport-to-a-plane-bound-for-home-in-the-us
• Khang Vu on north-korea-calling
• Dylan Scott et al on india-covid-19-cases-deaths-delta-variant

Wonk

• Tim Harford on how-to-vaccinate-the-world-more-quickly
• sandwichman on socially-ambivalent-labour-time-x-part-2, three-fragment-s-on-machines
• stumbling and mumbling on ambition-in-capitalist-society, whats-the-mechanism
• the conversable economist on is-geoengineering-research-objectionable, reconsidering-the-washington-consensus
• Uneasy Money on the-demise-of-bretton-woods-fifty-years-on
• Mainly Macro on sado-populism
• Eric Kramer on the-war-on-lockdowns-versus-the-evidence
• John Quiggin on frozen-conflicts-and-forever-wars
• Gareth Evans on china-s-new-silos-nuclear-arms-control-more-urgent-ever
• Lord Keynes on bibliography-on-marxs-law-of-falling-rate-of-profit
• Henry Storey on can-us-and-china-cooperate-climate
• run75441 on why-did-folks-think-hydroxychloroquine-would-be-effective-against-sars
• Lydia Khalil on the-talibans-return-to-power-in-afghanistan-will-be-a-boon-for-international-jihadism

General

• Jane Howard on freud-nietzsche-paglia-fanon-our-expert-guide-to-the-books-of-the-white-lotus
• David Appelll on the-ice-mountains-of-pluto

Climate

• David Appell on july-hottest-month-ever-recorded
• Andrew King et al on theres-no-end-to-the-damage-humans-can-wreak-on-the-climate-this-is-how-bad-its-likely-to-get
• Navid Constantinou on how-machine-learning-is-helping-us-fine-tune-climate-models-to-reach-unprecedented-detail
• Skeptical Science on Science and its pretenders
• Open Mind on european-heat

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• national-academy-of-sciences-scandal-and-the-concept-of-countervailing-power
  
• adjusting-for-pre-treatment-variables-coronavirus-vaccine-edition
  
• heres-why-i-dont-trust-the-nudgelords
  
• coronavirus-and-simpsons-paradox-oldsters-are-more-likely-to-be-vaccinated-and-more-likely-to-have-severe-infections-so-you-need-to-adjust-for-age-when-comparing-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-people
  
• measuring-the-information-in-an-empirical-prior
  
• a-scandal-in-tedhemia-noted-study-in-psychology-first-fails-to-replicate-but-is-still-promoted-by-npr-then-crumbles-with-striking-evidence-of-data-fraud
  
• ten-ways-to-rank-the-tokyo-olympics-with-10-different-winners-and-no-one-losing
  
• color-schemes-in-data-graphics
  
• what-is-a-claim-in-ml-oriented-research-and-when-is-it-not-reproducible
  
• tokyo-track-revisited-no-i-dont-think-the-track-surface-is-1-2-faster
  
• statschat on seeing-like-a-survey-panel
• Data Colada on evidence of fraud in an influential field experiment about dishonesty Thanks Brad

Econometrics

• Freakometrics on could there be incentives to cycle through a red light
• No Hesitations on unconditional-and-conditional-density-forecast-calibration, interactive-climate-change-simulator

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

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• Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading

Vox Wonk

• climate-change-and-central-banks-case-violating-neutrality
  
• recovering-pandemics-policies-and-structural-features-matter
  
• income-inequality-during-covid-19-pandemic
  
• labour-market-reallocation-wake-covid-19
  
• darwinian-reallocations-and-origins-aggregate-increasing-returns-scale
  
• why-we-don-t-write-more-papers-political-finance
  
• predicting-inflation-using-cumulative-wage-gaps
  
• economic-backwardness-and-religious-persecution
  
• one-stop-source-inflation-new-database
  
• trade-liberalisation-and-taxation
  
• monetary-policy-and-inequality
  
• how-natural-disasters-reshape-supply-chains
  
• covid-19-government-support-may-have-not-been-unproductively-distributed-feared