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A Better Social Media World Is Waiting for Us My quest to imagine a different world.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/11/30/opinion/social-media-future.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Neoliberalism and Climate Change

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/11/neoliberalism-and-climate-change.html

Raj Chetty on social mobility and policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29sdtqClrGA

Repo Market and excess reserves and the FED

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/repo-madness-fed-plumbing-gone-awry

Capitalism and Climate Change Steve Keen

https://www.patreon.com/posts/economics-of-31834604

Thinking fast and slow Are Evidence-Based Decisions Impossible in Politics?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/11/are-evidence-based-decisions-impossible-in-politics.html  and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/kahneman-excerpt-thinking-fast-and-slow/
China’s authoritarian rule is coming back to bite it – and us

China, Capitalism, and the New Cold War

https://www.the-american-interest.com/2019/11/18/china-capitalism-and-the-new-cold-war/?utm_content=buffer808ce&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Why the US economy isn’t as competitive or free as you think

Martin Wolf reviews ‘The Great Reversal’ by Thomas Philippon https://www.ft.com/content/97be3f2c-00b1-11ea-b7bc-f3fa4e77dd47

Wanted: A Global Green New Deal Oct 8, 2019 JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ

https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/no-alternative-to-carbon-neutrality-green-new-deal-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2019-10?barrier=accesspay

How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/17/business/how-fedex-cut-its-tax-bill-to-0.html

Capitalism Alone Review

http://www.democraticaudit.com/2019/11/16/book-review-capitalism-alone-the-future-of-the-system-that-rules-the-world-by-branko-milanovic/?amp=1 here is the sme but with extra related titles like "post-capitalism"

Trump and His Party of Pollution

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/opinion/trump-republicans-pollution.html

Team-based Learning

https://serc.carleton.edu/econ/tbl-econ/why.html http://www.teambasedlearning.org/definition/

Diversity Inc

https://www.c-span.org/video/?465398-1/diversity-inc

PG thoughts on growth and cities

http://www.petergordonsblog.com/2019/07/thirteen-thoughts-on-growth-and-cities.html

Lawerence Lessig They don't represent us

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NVQLJ32?ref_=cm_flw_dgst_5

How to Get Past the US-China Trade War Nov 7, 2019 DANI RODRIK

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/framework-for-resolving-us-china-trade-war-by-dani-rodrik-2019-11

RESOURCE: Economic and Political Weekly--The Future of Globalisation Learning from History

https://www.epw.in/journal/2019/44/perspectives/future-globalisation.html#disqus_thread

How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/opinion/sunday/science-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

ZEN and the Art of the Federal Reserve System

http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2019/02/zen-and-the-art-of-the-federal-reserve-system.html

An Investment Tip From Mr. ZIP Spot a coming trend and buy something close. No one knows exactly what’ll take off.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-investment-tip-from-mr-zip-11570393678

Is Politics a War of Ideas or of Us Against Them?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/opinion/is-politics-a-war-of-ideas-or-of-us-against-them.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=Opinion

Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Minimalism-Choosing-Focused-Noisy/dp/0525536515

In Praise of the 5-Hour Workday, and Other ‘Radical’ Ideas

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/opinion/five-hour-workday-experiment.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

Why We Are Not Living in a Post‑Truth Era BY STEVEN PINKER

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/steven-pinker-on-why-we-are-not-living-in-a-post-truth-era/

How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? ‘Maybe 20 Years’

Warming waters and a series of dams are making the grueling migration of the Chinook salmon even more deadly — and threatening d ozens of other species. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/science/chinook-salmon-columbia.html?searchResultPosition=1 http://bren.ucsb.edu/research/2016Group_Projects/documents/YubaFinalReport_Thesis_Mar24.pdf

Vanishing: More Than 1 in 4 Birds Has Disappeared in the Last 50 Years

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/vanishing-1-in-4-birds-gone/?__hstc=161696355.1a6fee2161eb52f996f0d68d3ff8f127.1566526671085.1572449398099.1572487736342.12&__hssc=161696355.1.1572487736342&__hsfp=3644321334#_ga=2.29887743.1908843056.1572293426-398639416.1568996254&_gac=1.262993406.1572449398.Cj0KCQjw6eTtBRDdARIsANZWjYacB5hqJHvnQCSFBosU7IKF5okPqM1z8J7gfUwBx0c7-iFEBUibNTQaApp9EALw_wcB

NDRC NOFA: Benefit Cost Analysis: Data Resources and Expert Tips Webinar

https://www.hudexchange.info/trainings/courses/ndrc-nofa-benefit-cost-analysis-data-resources-and-expert-tips-webinar1/

Making Sense of the National Debt

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/page1-econ/2019/11/01/making-sense-of-the-national-debt

California fires: Trump threatens to pull federal aid

California fires: Trump threatens to pull federal aid https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50284656 California wildfires 'can now happen in any year' Increased temperatures due to global warming are causing huge wildfires in California regardless of how wet the previous winter was, according to a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . Drier, warmer conditions lead to vegetation drying out and becoming more flammable.

Wear Clothes? Then You’re Part of the Problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/03/opinion/climate-change-clothing-policy.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage Making, washing and tossing apparel has a big environmental cost. The clothing and footwear industry is responsible for 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, nearly the same as the entire European Union,  according to a study  by the environmental services group Quantis. Without abrupt intervention, the industry’s impact on the climate is on track to increase by almost half by 2030.

JD TRIO The Meritocracy Trap Yale law professor Daniel Markovits

https://www.c-span.org/video/?464286-1/the-meritocracy-trap  argued that meritocracy contributes to inequality in America. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/24/20919030/meritocracy-book-daniel-markovits-inequality-rich?__c=1 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/end-of-neoliberalism-unfettered-markets-fail-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2019-11 Shiller:  Narratives matter https://www.project-syndicate.org/onpoint/tales-of-the-economy-by-barry-eichengreen-2019-11?barrier=accesspaylog Is Politics a War of Ideas or of Us Against Them? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/opinion/is-politics-a-war-of-ideas-or-of-us-against-them.html?action=click&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=Article&region=Footer&contentCollection=Opinion Jump-Starting America How Breakthrough Science Can Revive Economic Growth and the American Dream https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/jonathan-gruber/jumpstarting-america/9781541762503/