links for 2011-05-31

• China's slowdown: Starts with a spark - The Economist
• How Iowa and New Hampshire Voting Distorts Economic Policy - NYT
• The Laziest Generation(s) - NYTimes.com
• The Marx-Mellon-Schumpeter-Hoover-Hayek Axis Is Back! - Brad DeLong
• Did Unconventional Policy Responses to the Crisis Work? - Liberty Street
• How Innocuous Is a Treasury Default - Econbrowser
• Medicare Doublethink - Paul Krugman
• Share of Population on Food Stamps Grows in Most States - WSJ
• Real House Prices and Price-to-Rent: Back to 1999 - Calculated Risk
• Why pharma's patents are a drug on the market - Dean Baker
• America’s misunderstood hero: the federal deficit - FT.com
• Who's to Blame for the Deficit? The Poor! - tax.com
• On Should and Could - Rortybomb
• The Anglo-Saxon Budget Laboratories - Jean Pisani-Ferry
• Feast and Famine (India, food crisis) - Boston Review
• How Durable is Trust in Public Institutions? - naked capitalism
• Ancient Roman Ship Had On-board Fish Tank - Scientific American
• Unemployment and Output Gaps in a New Keynesian DSGE - Econbrowser