Links for 2012-02-01

• Understanding financial crises - Gourinchas and Obstfeld
• How the Fed Presidents' Assets Stack Up - NYTimes.com
• On the Fed's Policy of Quantitative Easing - Brad DeLong
• Free-market evangelists face a lonely fate - FT.com
• Executive pay - IGM Forum
• Publishers and chickens - Digitopoly
• Morals? Can't afford them - Frances Woolley
• Romney’s gift from Congress - David Cay Johnston
• Blaming Capitalism for Corporatism - Phelps and Ammous
• Subsidies Help State and Local Govs Slow Recovery - MCPE
• The Biggest Risk to the Economy in 2012 - Robert Reich
• Defining a social subject: Weber - Dan Little
• Sustainable Humanity - Jeffrey Sachs