Models of the minimum wage (for what they’re worth) | Jared Bernstein | On the Economy

Excellent overview: Jared Bernstein Blod

"Thee recent minimum wage debates among the various campaigns are pretty disconnected from a model of how the damn thing actually works in the real world. In part, that’s a function of campaigns not doing nuance, but it’s also because there is no model that economists agree on as per why the empirical results on minimum wage increases are so different from the predictions of the classical model."

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Crowdfunding or Crowdphishing? by Robert J. Shiller - Project Syndicate

Crowdfunding or Crowdphishing? by Robert J. Shiller - Project Syndicate: "NEW HAVEN – If one were seeking a perfect example of why it’s so hard to make financial markets work well, one would not have to look further than the difficulties and controversies surrounding crowdfunding in the United States. After deliberating for more than three years, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month issued a final rule that will allow true crowdfunding; and yet the new regulatory framework still falls far short of what’s needed to boost crowdfunding worldwide."



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Three centuries of macroeconomic data | Bank of England

Three centuries of macroeconomic data | Bank of England: "The three centuries dataset was originally constructed for the purposes of writing the 2010 Q4 Quarterly Bulletin article The UK recession in context — what do three centuries of data tell us?.  It was updated and expanded for the launch of the One Bank Research Agenda in February 2015 and the latest edition of the spreadsheet (version 2.2) has now been updated to 2014."



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Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX

big list - Showcase of beautiful typography done in TeX & friends - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange: "If you were asked to show examples of beautifully typeset documents in TeX & friends, what would you suggest? Preferably documents available online (I'm aware I could go to a bookstore and find many such documents called 'books'). Extra bonus for documents whose LaTeX source is available."



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Short and long presentations in one beamer document - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange

Short and long presentations in one beamer document - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange: "I look for a sensible way to keep different versions of the same talk in one beamer file: e.g., 15 min and 1 hour versions, where some content is common, but some is not. Is there a nice way to toggle between versions?"



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