Around the Traps 10/12/21

 It is time again for Around the Traps.

Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Wesley Morgan on labors-2030-climate-target-betters-the-morrison-government-but-australia-must-go-much-further-much-faster
• renew economy on labor-has-produced-a-brilliant-renewables-plan-wrapped-up-in-a-terrible-climate-plan, look-no-taxes-labors-modest-target-assumes-82-pct-renewables-and-89-pct-evs-by-2030, alinta-proposes-1000mw-offshore-wind-farm-to-help-power-portland-smelter, agl-fortescue-strike-deal-to-turn-hunter-coal-plants-into-huge-green-hydrogen-hub, brown-coal-likely-to-close-by-2032-aemo-says-but-all-coal-could-be-gone-by-then
• Michelle Grattan on view-from-the-hill-running-berejiklian-ahead-of-icac-report-would-send-the-worst-of-signals-on-integrity
• Rohan Fisher and Neil Burrows on we-are-professional-fire-watchers-and-were-astounded-by-the-scale-of-fires-in-remote-australia-right-now
• Peter Martin on whos-the-unsung-architect-behind-labors-climate-plans-a-retiring-coalition-minister
• Croaking Cassandra on debt-and-deficits, lsap-losses
• Ross Gittins on beware-of-governments-using-algorithms-to-collect-revenue
• Greg Jericho on australian-house-prices-will-keep-rising-and-its-truly-depressing-for-those-hoping-to-get-into-the-market
• Tom Fairman et al on australian-forests-will-store-less-carbon-as-climate-change-worsens-and-severe-fires-become-more-common
• Peter Hannan on australias-coal-fired-power-plants-likely-to-shut-almost-three-times-faster-than-expected-report-suggests
• Richard Holden on the-case-against-death-duties-just-got-stronger
• Cyra Patel on should-i-get-my-covid-vaccine-booster-yes-it-increases-protection-against-covid-including-omicron
• Richard Dennis on comparing-the-coalition-and-labors-climate-modelling-reveals-some-underlying-truth
• Johanna Bowyer on australian-government-emissions-projections-show-44-of-coal-capacity-will-close-by-2030

Northern America

• Andrew Gelman on $
• noahopinion on yes-the-us-is-still-a-flawed-democracy, the-omicron-situation-week-2
• Jane Kirtley on how-dual-loyalties-created-an-ethics-problem-for-chris-cuomo-and-cnn
• David Reynolds on andrew-johnson-was-no-moses
• the time of monsters on the-two-bob-doles
• Brad De Long on great-resignation-us-lack-of-support-for-workers
• Lawyers Guns Money on dole Thanks Brad
• Prudence Flowers on will-roe-v-wade-be-overturned-and-what-would-this-mean-the-us-abortion-debate-explained
• William Saleten on every-single-way-you-can-tell-trump-world-is-lying-about-its-latest-covid-scandal
• David Brooks on true-conservatism-dead-fox-news-voter-suppression
• Barton Gellman on january-6-insurrection-trump-coup-2024-election
• McKenzie Wilkes and Andrew Rackich on trumps-2022-endorsements-are-earlier-bolder-and-more-dangerous-than-when-he-was-president
• Champe Barton on what-new-data-on-gun-recoveries-can-tell-us-about-increased-violence-in-2020

Europe

• Mainly Macro on they-lie-about-everything-else-so-why-is-the-economy-different
• stumbling and mumbling on the-decline-of-the-impartial-spectator
• William Gourlay on erdo-loses-his-way
• Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo on europe-finally-getting-serious-about-china

Asia

• the conversable economist on chinas-role-in-international-financial-flows
• Brad De Long on p/is-is-the-moment-my-long-run-china
• Institutional economics on chinas-wto-accession-and-us-economic-engagement-20-years-on
• Haneea Issad on coal-lock-in-in-southeast-asia-presents-a-challenge-for-the-asian-development-banks-coal-retirement-plan

Wonk

• Patricia O'Brien on 80-years-on-the-attack-on-pearl-harbour-offers-lessons-for-today
• Stephen Grenville on twenty-years-brics
• the conversable economist on policing-whats-the-function, the-us-treasury-review-of-economic-sanctions
• Alex Tabarrok on the-rise-and-decline-and-rise-again-of-mancur-olson
• Gholeinhossein Bagheri et al on an upper bound on one to one exposure to human respiratory particles  Thanks Brad

General

• Coell Hellier on a-new-exoplanet-meet-gj-367b-an-iron-planet-smaller-and-denser-than-earth

Climate

• and Then Theres Physics on no-it-probably-isnt-mostly-due-to-changes-in-clouds

Andrew Gelman ( mainly stats)

• prior-knowledge-elicitation-the-past-present-and-future
  
• they-call-him-dr-manhattan-because-he-updates-one-dimension-at-a-time
  
• declaredesign
  
• journals-submit-article-with-fake-data-demonstrate-that-some-higher-education-journal-youd-never-heard-of-is-as-bad-as-pnas-psychological-science-lancet-etc-etc-etc
  
• two-sides-no-vig-the-problem-with-generative-and-inferential-reasoning-in-social-science
  
• eliciting-expert-knowledge-in-applied-machine-learning
  
• christopher-columbus-and-the-replacement-level-historical-figure
  
• objectively-worse-but-practically-better-an-example-from-the-world-chess-championship
  
• interpreting-apparently-sparse-fitted-models
  
• statschat on viagra-and-alzheimers, making-it-up-in-volume
• Kaiser Fung on whats-smelling-fishy-maybe-your-data

Econometrics

• nuttin

Dianne Coyle ( quirky + book reviews)

• state-of-the-person-state-of-the-nation
  
• sailing-into-the-future
  
• Tyler Cowen on what-ive-been-reading

vox wonk

• informational-barriers-market-access
  
• pollution-trends-and-us-environmental-policy
  
• eu-firms-and-covid-crisis
  
• bond-versus-bank-financing-transition-low-carbon-economy
  
• modernisation-and-china-s-century-humiliation
  
• inflation-and-fiscal-dominance
  
• socioeconomic-gap-childcare-enrolment
  
• import-competition-labour-market-regulation-and-outsourcing
  
• financial-incentives-and-other-nudges-do-not-increase-covid-19-vaccinations-among-hesitant
  
• socially-responsible-investors-amplify-positive-externalities-regulatory-enforcement
  
• effects-fintech-lending-small-and-medium-sized-enterprises
  
• towards-high-wage-high-productivity-economy