Links for 02-12-2013

• U.S. Must Do More than Focus on Deficit - Brad DeLong
• A Bad Idea Returns: Balanced-Budget Amendment - John Cassidy
• There is nothing inevitable about low economic mobility - Miles Corak
• Fiscal Stability of High-Debt Nations (NBER) - Robert E. Hall
• Humans and robots work better together after cross-training - MIT News
• Joe Scarborough Doesn’t Understand Economics at All - Jon Chait
• Is Congress really going to miss its free lunch on infrastructure? - Neil Irwin
• Before Greed - Richard White
• Austere Indeed - Paul Krugman
• Don't Make Poison Pills More Deadly - NYTimes.com
• Misplaced concerns about central bank independence - Vox EU
• Fiscal policy and the (delayed?) federal-state divergence - FT Alphaville
• What Motivates Referees: An Experiment - Cheap Talk
• Federal Means-Tested Programs and Tax Credits - Infographic - CBO
• A Painfully Slow Recovery for America's Workers - Janet Yellen
• A Painfully Slow Recovery for America’s Workers - Owen Zidar
• "Why aren’t there more retractions...?" - Environmental Economics
• Growth Forecast Errors and Multipliers (NBER) - Blanchard and Leigh
• Theoretical Models of Inequality Transmission (NBER) - Gary Solon
• Bringing Krugman to Europe - Gloomy European Economist
• Fossil fuel subsidies: billions up in smoke? - OECD Insights
• Debt Stabilizization with $670 Billion in Deficit Reduction? - Rortybomb
• The Exchange Rate Disconnect - Liberty Street Economics
• Why Aren’t Corporations Paying More Dividends? - EconoSpeak
• The Big Bank Debate Continues - Patrick Sims
• Don’t Be Afraid of China - Simon Johnson
• Global R&D: An Overview - Tim Taylor
• The Underpopulation Bomb - Economix
• The Right's Stuff - Paul Krugman
• Big News - Cheap Talk