Links for 2012-03-09

• A Brief Note on Macroeconomics and Ethics - Paul Krugman
• The politics of economic and statistical models - Andrew Gelman
• Gasoline prices didn’t cause the housing crash - Felix Salmon
• Are Western Activists Really Reducing Child Labor? - NYTimes.com
• The DOJ, publishers, Apple and eBook pricing - Digitopoly
• An interesting model of asset bubbles - Noahpinion
• The poor half billion in South Asia: Is there hope for change? - Vox EU
• Bipartisanship Made the New Deal Possible - New Deal 2.0
• There Are Microfoundations, and There Are Microfoundations - Uneasy Money
• The Koch Brothers, The Cato Institute, And Why Nations Fail - Simon Johnson
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims increase - Calculated Risk
• Sovereign debt: Safe keeping - The Economist
• The Inequality Trap - Kemal Derviş
• And the money goes to ... fossil fuels - Jay Coggins