Links for 2012-04-27

• The potential of NGDP targeting - Macro Matters
• Romney’s fiscal fantasy plan - Larry Summers
• Economists -- you say you want a revolution? - Eric Weiner
• Protectionism isn’t countercyclical (anymore) - Andrew Rose
• 'Europe Could Economize Itself to Death' - Spiegel
• The wedge between productivity and compensation growth - EPI
• George Will Makes It Up to Go After Public Sector Workers - Dean Baker
• How American municipalities can learn from Parisian mistakes - MuniLand
• Schools of Thought and Economists' Opiniion - Luca De Benedictis...
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims at 388,000 - Calculated Risk
• Bernanke: "Read My Lips, Not My Japan Papers!" - David Beckworth
• Making heavy weather of economic forecasting - Dean Baker
• The Clash of Economic Ideas: A Review - Perry Mehrling
• Who Bails Out the IMF? - Twenty-Cent Paradigms
• A Worrisome Rise in Jobless Claims - NYTimes.com
• Falling Labor Force Participation - Timothy Taylor
• U.S. Assets at Work, Unsupervised - Simon Johnson
• America's Renminbi Fixation - Stephen S. Roach
• Brooks Does the Big Lie on Stimulus - Dean Baker