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The Writing That Shaped Economic Thinking in 2016
It was a year when many of the dominant ideas in the field started fraying.
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The past year was dominated by the bitter presidential election. But during the precious, brief moments when I was able to unplug from the madness and read about economics, I found a lot of great material. Here’s a list of 10 excellent economics books and papers I read in 2016 that should be accessible to the general public.
1. “Concrete Economics: The Hamilton Approach to Economic Growth and Policy,” by Stephen S. Cohen and J. Bradford DeLong