Economics in America

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1. CommenterPersonAug 2025
   "Relative to employment in the fast food sector elsewhere in the United States" .. could drive a truck through that "elsewhere".

   In 1992, New Jersey made just such an increase in minimum wage at fast food restaurants. Card & Kreuger ("Myth and Measurement") analyzed data in adjacent areas in NJ & PA. They found that employment in the NJ area actually increased. Take a look at the first chapter of "Economics in America" by Angus Deaton (Nobel 2015).

   Comparing CA to elsewhere in the US (where? everywhere?) looks a bit shady. Given the government agencies are being led by political hacks these days, I don't trust it one bit.

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2. kccqzyDec 2024
   It's not hard to read one hundred pages each day of newspaper articles and magazine articles and other similar publications. If The Economist were a daily publication, I'd gladly read it every single day from cover to cover. However I see that the author has excluded periodicals in this statistic, presumably because it's not "heavy" reading?

   I recently re-read a few books from the Harry Potter series and I could very easily read one hundred pages a day. I just finished reading Deaton's Economics in America and it's comparatively light and I read on average 50 pages per day. But I recently began to read Pigou's The Economics of Welfare (which I discovered only because Deaton quoted it) and there's no way I could read more than 20 pages a day.

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3. toomuchtodoSep 2024
   (in no particular order)

   https://www.lynalden.com/broken-money/ (Broken Money by Lyn Alden; ISBN13: 9798988666318)

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204894-chernobyl (Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy; ISBN13: 9781541617094)

   https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-stanley-robinso... (The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson; ISBN13: 9780316300162)

   https://www.nealstephenson.com/termination-shock.html (Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson; ISBN13: 9780063028050)

   https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545397/empty-planet... (Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson; ISBN13: 9781984823229)

   https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247625/ec... (Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality by Angus Deaton; ISBN13: 9780691247625)

   https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/313644/faster-highe... (Faster, Higher, Stronger: The New Science of Creating Superathletes, and How You Can Train Like Them by Mark McClusky; ISBN13: 9780147516473)

   https://www.ianyoungwrites.com/the-automaton (The Automaton by Ian Young; ISBN13: 9798986671000)

   https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250120854/thebondking (The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All by Mary Childs; ISBN13: 9781250120854)

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ghost_Map (The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Berlin Johnson; ISBN13 9781594489259)

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_Game_(book) (Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries by Nassim Nicholas Taleb; ISBN13: 9780425284629)

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_Leader_for_a_Day (Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh; ISBN13: 9781594201509)

   https://www.riverroadbooks.net/book/9780306812835 (Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J. E. Gordon; ISBN13: 9780306812835)

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