Around the Traps 19/11/21

 It is time again for Around the Traps

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,OyOy

• Peter Martin on how-government-modelling-found-net-zero-would-leave-us-better-off, the-embarrassingly-easy-tax-free-way-for-australia-to-cut-the-cost-of-electric-cars
• Melissa Tyler on australia-has-not-just-had-a-diplomacy-fail-it-has-been-devaluing-the-profession-for-decades
• John Quiggin on government-assumes-90-of-australias-new-car-sales-will-be-electric-by-2050-but-its-a-destination-without-a-route
• Michelle Grattan on -scott-morrison-caught-in-catch-22-over-the-issue-of-his-integrity
• Phillip Adams on the-governments-net-zero-modelling-shows-winners-weve-found-losers-as-well
• Antony Green on john-alexanders-retirement-opens-up-the-contest-in-bennelong
• Bruce Mountain on i-chose-the-electricity-retailer-offering-the-best-deal-for-my-home-thats-not-what-i-got
• Sussannah Patton on australia-relevant
• croaking cassandra on a-cost-benefit-approach-to-thinking-about-vaccine-coercion, reserve-bank-people, 5-7-billion, lallys-paper-on-a-cost-benefit-analysis-of-covid-vaccine-mandates
• renew economy on south-australia-curtailed-nearly-as-much-wind-and-solar-on-sunday-as-it-used, telstra-to-tap-1gw-of-batteries-and-abundant-dirt-cheap-clean-energy-in-big-new-play, taylor-concedes-key-government-policy-was-never-intended-to-cut-emissions, fossil-gas-hydrogen-could-lead-to-substantial-lift-in-emissions-and-higher-prices, south-australia-sets-stunning-new-benchmark-as-gas-output-halved-and-wind-at-record-highs
• Dennis Muller on is-morrison-gaining-a-reputation-for-untrustworthiness-the-answer-could-have-serious-implications-for-the-election
• Nadeem Samnakay on im-an-expert-in-what-makes-good-policy-and-the-morrison-governments-net-zero-plan-fails-on-6-crucial-counts
• Chris Wallace on on-politics-as-performance-morrisons-advantage-is-ebbing-and-that-could-make-a-difference-at-the-next-election
• Anna Boucher and Elisa Choy on cautiously-optimistic-chinese-students-keen-get-back-australia
• Greg Jericho on no-wages-are-not-about-to-explode-they-are-struggling-to-keep-up-with-australias-inflation
• Richard Holden on vital-signs-chill-this-weeks-news-on-wages-points-to-anything-but-hyperinflation
• Robin Smit on we-must-rapidly-decarbonise-road-transport-but-hydrogens-not-the-answer
• Institutional Economics on what-happened-to-the-mortgage-lending

Northern America

• noahopinion on why-steel-tariffs-are-always-bad, inflation-is-up-but-the-inflation-truthers-are-still-wrong, try-patriotism, people-have-a-right-to-be-upset-about-inflation
• Barkley Rosser on repeated-lying-about-lying
• Tyler Cowen on assorted links ( go to 3) ,why-is-inflation-so-bad
• New Deal Democrat on dear-democrats-yes-inflation-is-a-problem
• Lili Loofbourow on trump-news-dropoff-democratic-action
• the conversable economist on the-shifting-center-of-us-population-1790-2020
• Uneasy Money on high-inflation-anxiety
• Neil Lewis on why-many-americans-underestimate-who-is-most-concerned-about-the-environment
• Clark Williams-Derry on the-goldilocks-predicament-for-oil-and-gas-there-are-no-just-right-prices

Europe

• long and variable on team-transitory-vs-team-permanent
• Mainly Macro on why-have-conservative-chancellors-since-Osborne-been-bad-for-households
• Samantha Wong on brewing-crisis-bosnia-and-herzegovina
• Masha Gessen on can-russias-press-ever-be-free
• Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo on nord-stream-2-will-you-go-gazprom-me
• stumbling and mumbling on frames-stories-and-political-change

Asia

• David Goodman on xi-jinping-puts-his-stamp-on-communist-party-history-but-is-his-support-as-strong-as-his-predecessors
• Bill Hare on are-you-kidding-india-your-last-minute-glasgow-intervention-wont-relieve-pressure-to-ditch-coal
• David Hopkins on thailand-s-regressive-royal-insult-law
• Tony Walker on xi-biden-meeting-is-cordial-but-will-anything-change-between-the-superpowers
• Mubashar Hasan on minorities-under-attack-bangladesh
• David Fawcett on myanmar-totalitarian-terror-shouldn-t-fly-our-watch
• Johannes Nugroho on true-challenge-indonesia-s-large-informal-economy

Wonk

• Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp on framing-globalisation
• Menzie Chinn on some-useful-terms-in-economics
• Tim Harford on christmas-i-had-it-wrapped-up-weeks-ago
• stumbling and mumbling on the-decline-of-economics
• the conversable economist on a-primer-on-nfts, the-bottleneck-story
• Brad De Long on why-was-the-20th-century-not-a-chinese-century
• Jake Bernstein on tax-havens-loopholes-for-kleptocrats
• Simon Nicholas and Soroush Basirat on more-than-half-of-current-global-steel-production-may-have-already-reached-peak-carbon-emissions

General

• Jack Feehan and Vasto Apostopolous on no-vaccinated-people-are-not-just-as-infectious-as-unvaccinated-people-if-they-get-covid
• Brendan Chapman on how-do-police-forensic-scientists-investigate-a-case-a-clandestine-gravesite-recovery-expert-explains
• Mathew Hayek and Jan Dutkiewicz on beyond-impossible-plant-based-vegetarian-meat-climate-environmental-impact-sustainability

Climate

• Jeremy Moss on cop26-leaves-too-many-loopholes-for-the-fossil-fuel-industry-here-are-5-of-them
• Simon Lewis and Mark Maslim on five-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-glasgow-climate-pact
• David Appell on divergence-of-lower-troposphere-warming, nasa-giss-4th-warmest-october-warmest
• Moyhu on giss-october-global-temperature-up-from-september
• Open Mind on new-york-the-battery
• and Then Theres Physics on the-hack-that-changed-the-world
• Sally Thompson et al on deforestation-can-raise-local-temperatures-by-up-to-4-5-and-heat-untouched-areas-6km-away
• Des smog on four-major-climate-denial-scare-tactics-twitter

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• tfw-you-can-add-internationally-exhibited-to-your-resume
  
• that-viral-list-of-top-baby-names-is-bs
  
• a-mix-of-obvious-perhaps-useful-and-somewhat-absurd
  
• simulation-based-inference-and-approximate-bayesian-computation-in-ecology-and-population-genetics
  
• a-forecasting-error-in-law-school-admissions-could-this-have-been-avoided
  
• an-economist-and-his-lonely-belief
  
• comparing-bias-and-overfitting-in-learning-from-data-across-social-psych-and-machine-learning
  
• its-so-hard-to-compare-the-efficiency-of-mcmc-samplers
  
• event-frequencies-and-my-dated-mlb-analogy
  
• fake-drug-studies
  
• not-so-easy-to-estimate-the-effects-of-school-mask-requirements-how-to-think-about-this
  
• Mark the Ballot on model-building
• Christopher Drovandi on does-batting-second-in-t20-world-cup-cricket-offer-a-crucial-advantage-a-statistics-professor-explains

Econometrics

• nuttin

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading
• Davis Kedronsky on the-book-of-t Thanks Tyler Cowen

Vox Wonk

• social-insurance-policies-turbulent-times-short-time-work-versus-unemployment-insurance
  
• perceptions-racial-gaps-their-causes-and-ways-reduce-them
  
• what-we-know-about-climate-change-and-inflation
  
• large-public-debts-need-not-imply-fiscal-dominance
  
• loan-guarantees-and-their-implications-post-covid-19-productivity
  
• china-s-new-goal-income-distribution-insights-survey-data
  
• covid-19-and-investment-fund-portfolio-rebalancing
  
• covid-19-uncertainty-tale-two-tails
  
• negative-policy-rates-expansionary-effects-portfolio-rebalancing
  
• recovery-expansion-amid-headwinds-commissions-autumn-2021-forecast
  
• dollar-dominance-and-international-adjustment-global-risk
  
• wealth-and-history-reappraisal
  
• firm-level-policy-support-during-covid-19-crisis
  
• lessons-european-journey-through-two-crises