Weekend Readings – Applied Economics

Greg Mankiw on US tax system

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/upshot/one-way-to-fix-the-corporate-tax-repeal-it.html

Creative destruction and the US economy

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/upshot/long-term-trends-in-economy-more-worrisome-than-sudden-crash.html

Robots and Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/upshot/why-the-robots-might-not-take-our-jobs-after-all-they-lack-common-sense.html

Updates on the Chinese economy

http://www.project-syndicate.org/print/yu-yongding-warns-that-unless-officials-stem-the-rise-in-corporate-leverage--economic-crisis-is-inevitable

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-15/chinas-economy-real-estate-stinks-but-thats-not-the-whole-story