r/Economics Discussion Thread - 29 December 2017 Economics

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• r/Economics Discussion Thread - 29 December 2017
• Monopolies May Be Worse for Workers Than for Consumers
• The dark side of your $5 Footlong: Business owners say it could bankrupt them
• This one weird trick lets blue states avoid Trump’s tax hike
• EconTalk: Matt Stoller on Modern Monopolies
• The Divide Between America’s Prosperous Cities and Struggling Small Towns—in 20 Charts
• Even though you’d expect wage growth to increase with such low unemployment, the wage growth is decelerating. The recent Atlanta Fed report ticked down from 3.4% to 3.2%. Wage rigidity is also increasing which means more people are seeing no nominal wage growth.
• Why Economics Can Be Harder than the Hard Sciences
• The economy is normal again.
• Why use rational choice models?
• The Economists Who Stole Christmas: How might opposing schools of economic thought – from neoclassical and Keynesian to Libertarian and Marxist, view Christmas presents?
• The Economic Organization of a POW Camp [pdf]
• WP - 2017-18 - Gregor Bäurle, Sarah M. Lein and Elizabeth Steiner: Employment Adjustment and Financial Constraints - Evidence from Firm-level Data
• WP - 2017-17 - Thomas Lustenberger and Enzo Rossi: The Social Value of Information: A Test of a Beauty and Non-Beauty Contest
• Creating Agent-Based Energy Transition Management Models That Can Uncover Profitable Pathways to Climate Change Mitigation (Auke Hoekstra, Maarten Steinbuch, and Geert Verbong - Dec 2017)
• The CBO Is Almost, but Not Quite, Useless [Words and Numbers Podcast]

r/Economics Discussion Thread - 29 December 2017 Posted: 29 Dec 2017 10:08 AM PST Welcome to the Economics Discussion Thread! This is a place for high-quality economics discussion. submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

Monopolies May Be Worse for Workers Than for Consumers Posted: 29 Dec 2017 06:20 PM PST submitted by /u/durand101 [link] [comments]

The dark side of your $5 Footlong: Business owners say it could bankrupt them Posted: 29 Dec 2017 02:45 PM PST submitted by /u/eddiebruceandpaul [link] [comments]

This one weird trick lets blue states avoid Trump’s tax hike Posted: 29 Dec 2017 05:34 PM PST submitted by /u/gc3 [link] [comments]

EconTalk: Matt Stoller on Modern Monopolies Posted: 29 Dec 2017 04:52 AM PST submitted by /u/punkthesystem [link] [comments]

The Divide Between America’s Prosperous Cities and Struggling Small Towns—in 20 Charts Posted: 29 Dec 2017 06:14 PM PST submitted by /u/SwampShillin [link] [comments]

Even though you’d expect wage growth to increase with such low unemployment, the wage growth is decelerating. The recent Atlanta Fed report ticked down from 3.4% to 3.2%. Wage rigidity is also increasing which means more people are seeing no nominal wage growth. Posted: 29 Dec 2017 08:28 PM PST submitted by /u/timemoneycom [link] [comments]

Why Economics Can Be Harder than the Hard Sciences Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:53 PM PST submitted by /u/TheStatelessMan [link] [comments]

The economy is normal again. Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:08 AM PST submitted by /u/gauchnomics [link] [comments]

Why use rational choice models? Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:55 AM PST submitted by /u/Britonomist [link] [comments]

The Economists Who Stole Christmas: How might opposing schools of economic thought – from neoclassical and Keynesian to Libertarian and Marxist, view Christmas presents? Posted: 29 Dec 2017 12:51 AM PST submitted by /u/KareIIen [link] [comments]

The Economic Organization of a POW Camp [pdf] Posted: 29 Dec 2017 04:06 AM PST submitted by /u/Bhima [link] [comments]

WP - 2017-18 - Gregor Bäurle, Sarah M. Lein and Elizabeth Steiner: Employment Adjustment and Financial Constraints - Evidence from Firm-level Data Posted: 29 Dec 2017 04:07 AM PST submitted by /u/Central_Bank_Bot [link] [comments]

WP - 2017-17 - Thomas Lustenberger and Enzo Rossi: The Social Value of Information: A Test of a Beauty and Non-Beauty Contest Posted: 29 Dec 2017 04:07 AM PST submitted by /u/Central_Bank_Bot [link] [comments]

Creating Agent-Based Energy Transition Management Models That Can Uncover Profitable Pathways to Climate Change Mitigation (Auke Hoekstra, Maarten Steinbuch, and Geert Verbong - Dec 2017) Posted: 29 Dec 2017 03:59 AM PST submitted by /u/lughnasadh [link] [comments]

The CBO Is Almost, but Not Quite, Useless [Words and Numbers Podcast] Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:55 AM PST submitted by /u/linkns_86 [link] [comments]

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