Links for 02-02-2013

• As Growth Lags, Some Press the Fed to Do Still More - NYT
• Why the rich don’t want to talk about inequality... - Miles Corak
• Higher Education: The Utility of Uselessness? - Brad DeLong
• Memo To Deficit Scolds: I Hear What You're Saying - Paul Krugman
• 4 Ways Persistently High Unemployment Could Ossify – Owen Zidar
• Rationale for the philosophy of social science - UnderstandingSociety
• Do it because it is a good idea anyway - Observational Epidemiology
• The January 2013 Employment Release - Econbrowser
• Why the U.S. Government Never Has to Pay Back All Its Debt - The Atlantic
• Schools hours and educational inequality: Evidence from Japan - Vox EU
• Cooperators can coexist with cheaters... - EurekAlert
• Can plants be altruistic? You bet... - EurekAlert
• Moveable Feast Macroeconomics - Paul Krugman
• Safe Assets and Sovereign Wealth Funds - mainly macro
• Measuring the 'Quality' of Health Care - Uwe E. Reinhardt
• The unemployment crisis behind the jobs report - Heidi Moore
• Debt stabilization does not require any single number - EPI
• Macroeconomics and the financial cycle - Vox EU
• How Well Do U.S. Students Read? - Tim Taylor
• Our Incredible Shrinking Government - Paul Krugman
• Joe Scarborough's Attack on Stimulus - Dean Baker
• Half-Full Glasses - macroblog
• We’re # last! - The Berkeley Blog