Links for 2012-05-25

• Are leading academic papers really of better quality? - Vox EU
• Enter, Laffering - Paul Krugman
• What the Fed fears - The Economist
• On not taking sides, and forecast uncertainty - mainly macro
• The relative expansion of central banks’ balance sheets - macroblog
• The Insane Idea Hidden in the Debate Over Obama's Spending - Rortybomb
• For Voters, It's the Job-Growth Trend That Counts - NYTimes.com
• Monetary Policy: Rules, Learning and Risk Management - William Dudley
• Why can’t the Fed just prevent the ‘fiscal cliff’? - Brad Plumer
• Expansionary Fiscal Contraction in Action (or Not) - Econbrowser
• Chris Giles: non=evidence based conclusions - Jonathon Portes
• The weak demand for equal opportunity - Chris Dillow
• Slouching Towards Third World Status - Steven Strauss
• Bankers at the Gates - NYTimes.com
• America's potential GDP - The Economist
• Humbler horizons - The Economist
• The Bolivian Revolution - Acemoglu and Robinson
• Blinded by the (solar) light - TripleCrisis
• Is the Euro Ending or Beginning? - Jean Pisani-Ferry
• Lemley on Fixing the U.S. Patent System - Tim Taylor
• Jamie Dimon And The Legitimacy Of The Fed - Simon Johnson