Economist's View

links for 2009-11-10

• A comprehensive solution to combustible markets - Barney Frank
• Talking about Tomorrow’s Monetary Policy Today - FRBSF Economic Letter
• Bernanke Learns Flexibility in the Debate Over Fed’s Role - NYTimes.com
• Banks bill seeks to strip Fed of powers - FT.com
• Will rising oil prices derail the recovery? - Econbrowser
• Too Big to Succeed - NYTimes.com
• Politicizing the Fed? - washingtonpost.com
• Asset based reserve requirements - Thomas Palley
• Yellen Is More Worried About Disinflation - Real Time Economics
• Depression multipliers - Paul Krugman
• What Economic Disaster? - Andrew Leonard
• Making Wall Street pay - Dean Baker
• Economix - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Economists Forum - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Money Supply - links
• The Stash - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Marginal Revolution - links

links for 2009-11-09

• It Wasn't Lax Lending Standards. Really. - The New Republic
• Counting Jobs Saved by Obama’s Fiscal Stimulus - Jeff Frankel
• More on Bullard - Money Supply
• Who’s afraid of the big, bad Fairness Doctrine? - The Boston Globe
• Raising prices can reduce the cost of conservation - Greed, Green and Grains
• Housing and Debt Over the Life Cycle and Over the Business Cycle - NEP-DGE
• The distance puzzle resides in poor economies - voxeu.org
• Is commercial real estate is at bottom? - Richard Green
• Are social networks fundamental? - Daniel Little
• Free market flawed, says survey - BBC News
• Interest rate targeting as a social construction - Nick Rowe
• The Fed Is Already Transparent - Kashyap and  - WSJ.com
• "Where's the Consumption Disaster?" - Econbrowser
• Felix Salmon - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Stash - links
• Money Supply - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Economix - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-11-4

• The economics of open-air markets - voxeu.org
• With tax break, a big carbon footprint - Glaeser
• The GOP should dump the neocons -- latimes.com
• Increasing returns in a comparative advantage world - Paul Krugman
• David Leonhardt, Wilkins Micawber and the economic recovery - Justin Fox
• Examining the US liquidity trap - FT Alphaville
• Reality check (fiscal policy) - Antonio Fatas
• Credit Writedowns - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Money Supply - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-11-03

• NY Times Leonhardt: The Optimistic View - Calculated Risk
• Looking Past a Cloud of Pessimism as a Recession Ends - NYTimes.com
• Has there really been a housing boom? - Bluematter
• Why Nobel Economics Laureates chose economics? - Mostly Economics
• On not listening - Paul Krugman
• Crisis Compels Economists To Reach for New Paradigm - WSJ.com
• Can Learnability Save New-Keynesian Models? - NBER - Cochrane
• Financial Intermediaries and Monetary Economics - FRBNY
• Identifying Government Spending Shocks: It's All in the Timing - NBER - Ramey
• New theory on fairness in economics targets CEO pay - EurekAlert
• Why are stocks up? The answer is disturbing - Daniel Gross
• Calomiris on historical crisis lessons - voxeu.org
• How Obama Can Convince Congress to Enact a Larger Stimulus - Robert Reich
• Economists Forum - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Stash - links
• Money Supply - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-11-02

• Help Small Businesses Hire Again - NYTimes.com
• Employment under Differing Econometric Specifications - Econbrowser
• Inflation Expectations and the Risk of Deflation - FRBSF Economic Letter
• CRE and the CRA - Paul Krugman
• A fruitless clash of economic opposites - Edmund Phelps
• No saving grace - Paul Krugman
• Growth Still Not Nearly Enough To Cheer About - Market Talk
• The economist's new clothes - BBC - Stephanomics
• Ties Between Subprime Lenders, Financial Literacy Groups - Wash. Indep.
• Libertarians and delusionism - John Quiggin
• FT Alphaville
• Money Supply - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• The Stash - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Free Exchange - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-11-01

• Get Americans Back to Work - Robert Reich
• Assurance game - UnderstandingSociety
• The trade collapse: The role of product quality - voxeu.org
• Misunderstanding Randomness - Aid Watch
• The Amazon Wal-Mart price war - The New Yorker
• What The Woman Lived - Economic Principals
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• Marginal Revolution - links

links for 2009-10-31

• Can Citigroup Carry Its Own Weight? - NYTimes.com
• Did the Lehman Failure Do It? - Arnold Kling
• How Health Plan Turns Supply-Side Ideas Upside Down - Mankiw - NYTimes.com
• Why do central banks have assets? - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
• Democrats Push for Plan to Cut Deficit - NYTimes.com
• Recession Revives Authors’ Interest in Keynes - Review - NYTimes.com
• Books About John Maynard Keynes - Review - NYTimes.com
• Book Review - 'Ayn Rand and the World She Made,' - NYTimes.com
• Scary Halloween Costumes ...- Outside The (Cardboard) Box
• The Big Picture - links
• Economix - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Economists Forum - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Crisis Talk - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-30

• Stimulating thoughts, 3rd quarter edition - Paul Krugman
• Employment costs fall to record lows - MarketWatch
• The Runway Lies Ahead Like A Great False Dawn - Market Talk
• Counting jobs - Greed, Green and Grains
• Band of Dems Blasts Geithner Plan - The Washington Independent
• The Great Depression And The Great Recession - Bruce Bartlett
• Causal realism for sociology - Daniel Little
• U.S. Consumer Spending Slipped in September - NYTimes.com
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Economists Forum - links
• Across the Curve - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• Free Exchange - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-10-29

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• The recession probably ended in June - Free exchange
• Naming Systemically Dangerous Firms - The Baseline Scenario
• Why the renminbi has to rise to address imbalances - Martin Feldstein
• P vs. NP - MIT News
• Geithner’s Regulation Plan for Big Finance Firms Criticized - NYTimes.com
• Does Ben Bernanke Have The Facts Right On Banking? - The Baseline Scenario
• Menzie Chin on futures as predictors of commodity prices - Michael Roberts
• Income inequality and partisan voting in the United States - Andrew Gelman
• The Fed’s Signal-To-Noise Ratio - MacroScope
• Design and effectiveness of fiscal-stimulus programmes - Barro and Redlick
• The 2009Q3 Advance GDP Release and Stimulus Measures - Econbrowser
• A welcome GDP report - Econbrowser
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Economists Forum - links
• Across the Curve - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• Free Exchange - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-10-28

• Novel Analysis Confirms Climate "Hockey Stick" Graph - Scientific American
• SuperFreakonomics Ignores Business Case for Sustainability - Climate Progress
• Can renewable energy save the world? - voxeu.org
• How to avoid a repeat of the Great Crash - FT.com
• Newspapers aren't doing as badly as you think - Daniel Gross
• America, The Land of Opportunity - Capital Gains and Games
• How To Fire A Tenured Faculty Member - EconoSpeak
• Selling stocks short: Ever controversial - macroblog
• Swine Flu Emergency Prompts Pro-Swine-Flu Republican Response - The Onion
• Historical View of Credit Crises and Contractions - SSRN - Bordo, Haubrich
• Is it all the finance profs' fault - The Curious Capitalist
• Across the Curve - links
• The Big Picture - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• Economists Forum - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-27

• Bill Would Shift Cost of Rescuing Banks to Large Companies - NYTimes.com
• Improving financial regulation and supervision - Econbrowser
• Efficient Market Theory and the Crisis - Jeremy J. Siegel - WSJ.com
• $250 Checks for Social Security Recipients Overlook Reality - NYTimes.com
• Financial crises are different! - voxeu.org
• Report: GMAC in Talks for Bailout, and Summary - Calculated Risk
• The Chamber of Commerce is mad as hell - How the World Works
• Remembering the Father of Transportation Economics - Economix
• A Language of Smiles - Olivia Judson
• Washington Post Budget Editorial is So Wrong... - Capital Gains and Games
• Calvo pricing is a costly assumption - Economic Logic
• Asset inflation, price inflation, and the great moderation - Interfluidity
• Across the Curve - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Money Supply - links
• Economix - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-26

• American climate change skepticism growing too - Andrew Norton
• Fixed rates and protectionism, 2009 edition - Paul Krugman
• Private Saving, Household Saving, and Rebalancing - Econbrowser
• International reserves and easy money may have caused the crisis - G. Calvo
• A Defense of the FOMC - Martin Ellison and Thomas J. Sargent
• The Case for More Stimulus - NYTimes.com
• Climate change, food supply and genetically modified crops - Michael Roberts
• Why should Obama listen to the Chamber of Commerce? - Daniel Gross
• Recent Developments in Mortgage Finance - FRBSF Economic Letter
• Today in Bubbles - Crisis Talk
• We May Soon Find Out How Strong The Housing Market Really Is - Market Talk
• Are Big Banks Better? - The Baseline Scenario
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Economix - links
• Economists Forum - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-10-25

• The Economic Bomb That Didn’t Drop - The Caucus
• The Big Banks Should Be Broken Up - Robert Reich
• Why banks stay big - The New Yorker
• Notes on Why Banks Stay Big - The New Yorker
• Trying to Rein In ‘Too Big to Fail’ Institutions - NYTimes.com
• Fed's Tarullo Shakes Up Bank Rules - WSJ.com
• What Triffin dilemma?! - Models & Agents
• Econometric methodology for human mating - Aid Watch
• DSGE vs the European CVAR Approach to Macroeconometrics - NEP-DGE
• Political competition and gender quotas - voxeu.org
• How Can We Miss It When It Never Went Away? - Economic Principals
• Chris Blattman - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-24

• How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off - Tyler Cowen
• Why the Economy Needs Spending, Not Tax Cuts - Bruce Bartlett
• Greg Ip reviews books with lessons from economic history - washingtonpost
• Adjustment and the dollar - Paul Krugman
• Treasury's Geithner on the State of the Economy - BusinessWeek
• Comparative life satisfaction - UnderstandingSociety
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-10-23

• The Case for Mandating Health Insurance - Economix
• What pick-your-own-apple orchards teach about the economy - Daniel Gross
• America's public debt: Tomorrow's burden - The Economist
• The state and journalism - Christopher Caldwell
• Currencies: The diminishing dollar - The Economist
• South-South Trade Tensions - Crisis Talk
• Getting ahead of ourselves - Peter Browne
• Is the Stimulus Helping? - Justin Fox
• Does Economics Violate the Laws of Physics? - Scientific American
• Macroeconomic Consequences of Large Future Deficits - SSRN - Ray Fair
• Obama Adviser Expects Jobless Rate to Top 10% - NYTimes.com
• Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis - FRB: Bernanke
• Keynes versus the Classics: Round Two - Skidelsky
• Support The VAT - Bruce Bartlett
• The Time Has Come for Direct Job Creation - Economic Perspectives
• Fed Weighs Shift to Market Signals - WSJ.com
• The Big Picture - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Money Supply - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-22

• Fed sets pay limits for banks - FT Alphaville
• Content of economic blogs - Antonio Fatas
• Oil prices in currencies other than the USD - Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
• Build-it-and-They-Will-Fret, Twitter shows the way out. - Virulent Word of Mouse
• Taking Care of Global Imbalances - Antonio Fatas
• Why Congress must now abolish its debt limit - Bruce Bartlett
• Why Wall Street Reform is Stuck in Reverse - Robert Reich
• Achieving growth aspirations in a rebalanced world - Michael Spence
• A carbon tax for France? Encore un effort ! - Art Goldhammer
• Cooperation - UnderstandingSociety
• Everyman’s Financial Meltdown - NYTimes.com
• Why curbing finance is hard to do - Martin Wolf
• Volcker’s A Guy Who Knows A Thing Or Two - Market Talk
• Economists Forum - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Free Exchange - links
  

links for 2009-10-20

• Volcker Has Obama’s Ear, but Not on Overhaul of Banks - NYTimes.com
• Unemployment and inflation - Econbrowser
• The Skyrocketing Costs of Attending College - Economix
• Senators Unveil New Bill to Audit the Fed - Real Time Economics
• American journalism needs public support - FT.com
• What Should be Done About Bank Size? - Martin Baily
• Ben Bernanke vs. Edwin Truman on U.S. Domestic Demand - David Beckworth
• Are Bigger Banks Better? - The Atlantic Business Channel
• How bank equity regulation is akin to inflation targeting - voxeu.org
• Down go prices - Free exchange
• The secret Paulson-Goldman meeting - Felix Salmon
• "Abraham Lincoln's Monetary Policy" - Economic Perspectives
• "Too Big to Fail" Policy (Warning: Long) - Economics of Contempt
• Depends on what you mean by big - Free exchange
• Why companies do stupid things, credit rating edition - Johnson and Kwak
• The Stash - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Economists Forum - links
• Economix - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Free Exchange - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-19

• Holding Off Disaster - The Race to Save Lehman - NYTimes.com
• Canada's-housing-market-is-not-the-US-housing-market - Stephen Gordon
• Embrace the dollar's downfall - Dean Baker
• Economics as a Moral Science - SSRN - A. B. Atkinson
• Expertise, and "expertise" - Free exchange
• Paying for health - UnderstandingSociety
• Benjamin Roth’s View From Inside the Great Depression - NYTimes.com
• Oliver Williamson, a gentleman. - Virulent Word of Mouse
• Is it super freaky? - Knowledge Problem
• Are humans still evolving? Absolutely - EurekAlert
• Dollar’s Decline Brings Troubles, but an Upside for Exports - NYTimes.com
• The Continuing Muddles of Monetary Theory - SSRN - C. A. E. Goodhart
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• The Big Picture - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Economists Forum - links
• naked capitalism - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-18

• How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors - McClatchy
• The free market is not up to the job of creating work - FT.com
• Freakonomics is freaking out! - Environmental Economics
• Is there a solution to the Pundit's Delimma? - Greed, Green and Grains
• The Student of Working Together - Economic Principals
• The costs of externalities in journalism II - Richard H. Serlin
• The externalities in journalism - Richard H. Serlin
• What must we do to end world poverty? At last, an answer - William Easterly
• Countdown to the next crisis is already under way - Wolfgang Munchau
• Patches, Portability, and Punting vs an Estate Tax KISS - David Cay Johnston
• Why Obama Has to Refuse to Pay Hush Money - Robert Reich
• Galbraith on Bartlett - Capital Gains and Games
• Reaganomics is Dead (Long Live Reaganomics) - Capital Gains and Games
• No L - Econbrowser
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-17

• Rules and Culture: Corruption in Hong Kong - Charter Cities
• Levitt and Dubner on the northern spotted owl - Felix Salmon
• Demystifying social knowledge - UnderstandingSociety
• Human capital and world income inequality - NEP-DGE
• If the Grass Looks Greener... - The Bellows
• Ideologically Loaded Rhetoric - unsettling economics
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-10-16

• The September CPI with all the trimmings - macroblog
• It's official: The media no longer believes in global warming - Andrew Leonard
• Rotunda on Obama's Nobel Prize Tax Consequences - ataxingmatter
• Food security - Daniel Little
• Bankers’ pay - Clive Crook
• The ABC Dilemma of Health Reform - Vernon L. Smith
• Did Lawrence Kudlow Say That President Obama is Doing a Great Job? - pgl
• Don’t give up on quantitative easing - Roger Farmer
• A counterintuitive train wreck - Paul Krugman
• The Keynes Bubble - John Makin
• Levitt, Dubner Embarrass Themselves on Climate Change - Discover Magazine
• Don't Cut The Payroll Tax - Bruce Bartlett
• One industry that's booming: debt collection - McClatchy
• Greenspan Says U.S. Should Consider Breaking Up Large Banks - Bloomberg.com
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• PSD - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-15

• Federal Contractors Report 30,000 Stimulus Jobs - washingtonpost.com
• Am I actually sticking up for the Millennium Villages? - Chris Blattman
• Understanding a systemic banking crisis - voxeu.org
• Zero interest rate policy: Treatment may be expensive - Economists' Forum
• Getting Back To Work - Forbes.com
• Arguments for Big Banks - Rortybomb
• More Fed Cheerleading - Macro and Other Market Musings
• More Desperation from the Right - Robert Reich
• Why the US dollar may strengthen in 2010 - voxeu.org
• Was Monetary Policy Optimal During Past Deflation Scares? - Roberto Billi
• The Real Effects of Financial Sector Risk - SSRN - Tieman and Maechler
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economics - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Free Exchange - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-14

• Targeted liquidity operations - Econbrowser
• Nickeled and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich - Justin Wolfers
• Fed slacker fightback - FT Alphaville
• Q&A: John Taylor on His Rule and Fed’s Balance Sheet - Real Time Economics
• Tightening the Bankruptcy Laws in the Midst of a Deep Recession - Credit Slips
• Charter Cities debate, round 2 0 - Chris Blattman
• The Economic Effects of Reduced Greenhouse-Gas Emissions - CBO Blog
• Perils of a Talking Head - Capital Gains and Games
• The fear of depleting international reserves - voxeu.org
• The Kool-Aid Factor - Arnold Kling
• Senator Snowe on the Public Option - pgl
• Retail Sales Tumble From Armageddon ‘08 - Market Talk
• Saving labor - MIT News
• Economic theory and the financial crisis - Eric Maskin
• Against the common gouda - MIT News
• Free Exchange - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-13

• How low is 1.48 (USD/EUR)? - Antonio Fatas
• Yes, We Can--Afford More Short-Run Deficit Spending, That Is - Brad DeLong
• The effectiveness of central bank swaps as a crisis-fighting tool - voxeu.org
• Reducing Incentives for Risk-Taking - Lucian Bebchuk
• Student Loans as the New Indentured Servitude - Rortybomb
• Take America back from the banks - Dean Baker
• Some Lessons from the Crisis - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Growing local-currency bond markets - voxeu.org
• A Long, Melancholy Roar - Olivia Judson
• G20 leaders must back up their rhetoric with deeds - Economists' Forum
• Diana Farrell And The White House Theory Of Bank Size - The Baseline Scenario
• HealthGrades: 52 percent lower chance of dying at top-rated hospitals - EurekAlert
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Creative Class - Links
• Felix Salmon - links
• Economix - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economists Forum - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-12

• The Audacity of Greed: Health Insurers Just Blew Their Cover - Robert Reich
• Under Obama, Regulatory Agencies Step Up Enforcement - washingtonpost.com
• On Stimulus Spending, Deficit Hawks' Concern Is Misplaced - Johnson and Kwak
• Credit Vise Tightens for Small and Midsize Businesses - NYTimes.com
• Summers Letter Defends Stimulus - Real Time Economics
• Two Views: Blame It on Beijing Redux, or Joint Determination - Econbrowser
• Railroad Traffic Doesn’t Support Recovery Notion - Market Talk
• Information is stimulus - Interfluidity
• Unusual Spider Species Passes Up Live Prey for Plants - Scientific American
• Pentagon, Others Start Ramping Up For Climate Change - Miller-McCune
• Inflation Targeting Performance: Evolutionary Co-spectral Analysis - Zied Ftiti
• The Productivity Surge of the Early 2000s? - David Beckworth
• Department of "Huh?" (David Warsh Edition) - Brad DeLong
• Top Incomes in the Long Run of History - NBER
• Empty Hands on the Climate, and What Obama Needs to Do - Robert Reich
• The Problem With Financial Services Compensation - naked capitalism
• Across the Curve - links
• Chris Blattman - links
• Money Supply - links
• The Big Picture - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economists Forum - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Creative Class - Links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-11

• Can a government encourage economic experiments? - Virulent Word of Mouse
• Is international activism increasing child labour? - voxeu.org
• Are the state's rich paying their fair share? - latimes.com
• When should the Fed raise rates? (even more wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• Obstfeld and Rogoff's New Paper - David Beckworth
• The State of Monetary - Models & Agents
• Irony Alert: CNN, Fox and The Disappearing General Audience - Swampland
• A Volley Between Fox News and Obama Administration - NYTimes.com
• Get a Grip on It - Economic Principals
• Shiller wonders what the turnaround in house prices means - Richard Green
• Brueckner, Helsley find subsidized sprawl produces urban blight - Richard Green
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns
• naked capitalism - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-10

• China’s Dollar Problem - Kenneth Rogoff
• A Home Price Rebound Isn’t Necessarily a Boom - Robert Shiller
• Earnings of New Immigrants to the United States - NBER - Borjas, Friedberg
• Alternative Measures of the Unemployment Rate - FRB Cleveland
• Small Banks Fail at Growing Rate, Straining F.D.I.C. - NYTimes.com
• The End of Easy Money and Renewal of the Economy - Review - NYTimes
• The Availability and Profitability of Credit Cards - FRB Cleveland
• The Effects of “Cash for Clunkers” on the Auto Industry - FRB Cleveland
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• Marginal Revolution - links

links for 2009-10-09

• Modified goldbugism at the WSJ - Paul Krugman
• Radical Reform of Executive Pay - Freakonomics
• Oligopoly in Alaska’s wholesale gasoline market - Knowledge Problem
• Trade Picture Worsens in August - BusinessWeek
• The United States Trade Deficit Shrank in August - NYTimes.com
• How an inconvenient economist upset the cool crowd - Tim Harford
• Making the ‘public option’ a simple one - The Boston Globe
• Rebuilding employment - UnderstandingSociety
• Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis - The Irish Economy
• The Fed Doesn’t Really Understand Asset Bubbles - Economix
• Felix Salmon - links
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• Economix - links
• Creative Class - Links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-08

• Citigroup is Well Run? - Bruce Judson
• Trade Procyclicality in the Current Recession: The View from the US - Econbrowser
• Concerns Grow About Another Mortgage Giant - Series - NYTimes.com
• The Amazing Resilience of the Fed's Inflation-Fighting Credibility - David Beckworth
• Our low-carbon growth future - Nicholas Stern
• Rift Emerges in Fed Over When to Tighten Money - NYTimes.com
• Felix Salmon - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Stash - links
• The Big Picture - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Economix - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-07

• Answering Your Questions on the Economy - Paul Krugman
• Jorgenson on Bush - Capital Gains and Games
• To trust or not to trust - voxeu.org
• Micro-based macro - Crooked Timber
• U.S. Begins Antitrust Inquiry of I.B.M. in Mainframes - NYTimes.com
• How hedging instruments can destablize markets - Richard Green
• International Economic Update - FRB Dallas
• Krugman on the end of trade - Felix Salmon
• Will stimulating nominal aggregate demand solve our problems? - Econbrowser
• That's not shadow banking, that's the stock and bond markets - Nick Rowe
• Casey Mulligan’s Straw Man - The Baseline Scenario
• The Perils of Not Knowing that You Don’t Know - Aid Watch
• Still chasing shadows? - Paul Krugman
• Future Research in Finance - Rortybomb
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• The Stash - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Economix - links
• Economists Forum - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-06

• Prospects for a small business-fueled employment recovery - macroblog
• Don't Blame China - Simon Johnson and James Kwak
• Crisis breeds short memories - Stephen Roach
• Support Builds for a Tax Credit for Creating Jobs - NYTimes.com
• Jeffrey Sachs Rails against Ex-Fed Chief Greenspan - Real Time Economics
• For the Cartels, an Economic Battle - washingtonpost.com
• Bruce Bartlett’s Argument to Improve His Republican Party - NYTimes.com
• Health Care and the 'Predator State' - Thomas Frank
• Fiddling with accounting rules won’t fix the banks - voxeu.org
• Markets after the age of efficiency - FT.com
• Illusions: What's in a face? - Scientific American
• Time to tackle America’s widening inequality - FT.com
• Paralysis in the Debt Markets Is Deepening the Credit Drought - NYTimes.com
• ‘Leopard Behind You!’ - Olivia Judson
• Paul Krugman vs. John Cochrane on the instant replay - Curious Capitalist
• Economic crisis in Europe: Cause, consequences, and responses - voxeu.org
• The Involuntary Unemployment of John Maynard Keynes - American Spectator
• Keynes' Uncertainty Principle - The American Spectator
• Business cycle asymmetry and sectoral shocks - Marginal Revolution
• Older workers retiring early or working more? - Free exchange
• Australia raises rates from 49-year low - FT.com
• Macro and Other Market Musings - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Economix - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-05

• Does Obama Get It? - NYTimes.com
• Toles - Washington Post
• How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com
• Keynesian economics: the basics - Bluematter
• As Job Loss Rises, Obama Aides Act to Fix Safety Net - NYTimes.com
• Disagreement about the Inflation Outlook - FRBSF Economic Letter
• The worm in the bud - John Quiggin
• Should the government intervene to reduce obesity? - voxeu.org
• Reinventing 1934 macro - Paul Krugman
• Paul Krugman asks a Question - Arnold Kling
• Writing for Tyler - The Bellows
• How the Fed Can Avoid the Next Bubble - Nouriel Roubini and Ian Bremmer
• Cap-and-Trade versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy - Robert Stavins
• New York Fed’s Dudley: Fed Won’t Raise Rates Soon - Real Time Economics
• Big Isn't Beautiful - Robert Shapiro
• Specifically, What Should Be Done For Job? - Robert Reich
• Rethinking the American consumer - Free exchange
• Worry about the coming conflict over T-bills and derivatives - Daniel Gross
• Abnormal Returns - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Free Exchange - links
• The Stash - links
• Paul Kedrosky - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Economists Forum - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-10-04

• Pew Study Finds Wall St. and Capitol Dominate Financial News - NYTimes.com
• Capital market theory after the efficient market hypothesis - voxeu.org
• Greenspan Takes Measure of the Economy - Real Time Economics
• Paul Romer on Charter Cities - Aid Watch
• Will consumer spending really stay down? - James Surowiecki
• In Which a Spear-Carrier Vents a Little - Economic Principals
• Greenspan Expects Jobless Rate to Climb - NYTimes.com
• Reconciliation financing - voxeu.org
• The US recession ended in May - voxeu.org
• Too much Milk and Economics of Invention 101 - Virulent Word of Mouse
• Public-Private Investment Program Almost Ready to Begin - NYTimes.com
• Larry Summers and the White House economic team - The New Yorker
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Marginal Revolution - links

links for 2009-10-03

• Recession, You Look Familiar - Review - NYTimes.com
• The U.S. Must Prioritize Its Carbon Strategy - Jeff Sachs
• Fossil Skeleton From Africa Predates Lucy - NYTimes.com
• Matching Theory and Data: Bayesian VARs and DSGE Models - NEP-DGE Blog
• A “new normal” for the world economy: After the storm - The Economist
• Fat chance for obesity epidemic - Project Syndicate
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-10-02

• Economic troughs, unemployment, and fed policy - macroblog
• Was it Nominal or Real? - Macro and Other Market Musings
• Rolling the dice on wasteful home subsidies - Ed Glaeser
• Internal migration - UnderstandingSociety
• The Stimulus Debate, Revisited - Arnold Kling
• Glass-Steagall 2.0? - Arnold Kling
• More on the medium-term outlook for the recovery - Antonio Fatas
• In Defense of Forecasting - Economix
• The Political Impact of Keynesian Ideas - The Monkey Cage
• Fed Chest-Thumping for Beginners - The Baseline Scenario
• Multipliers - Marginal Revolution
• Credit Spreads and Monetary Policy - SSRN - Curdia, Woodford
• Robust Cointegration Testing - SSRN - Ulrich Müller, Mark Watson
• Crisis Roundup - The World Bank Group
• Black holes and financial crises - voxeu.org
• Trade protection, prosperity, and freedom - voxeu.org
• The Stash - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links

links for 2009-10-01

• Multipliers, Reviewed - Econbrowser
• Barro on Stimulus -  Modeled Behavior
• The Economics of Models - The Baseline Scenario
• More capital will not stop the next crisis - FT.com
• The case for issuing SDRs regularly - voxeu.org
• A stronger US economy requires a weaker dollar - Willem Buiter
• The Dollar Share in Central Banks’ FX Reserves Resumes its Decline - Jeff Frankel
• Glass-Steagall 2.0: The American People Deserve An Explanation - Bruce Judson
• Bernanke Welcomes Oversight, Says Fed Can Corral Giant Firms - washingtonpost.com
• The Big Picture - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-30

• Generating a Robust Recovery - Brad DeLong
• E.P.A. Moves to Curtail Greenhouse Gas Emissions - NYTimes.com
• A new initiative on research blogging - The RePEc Blog
• Bill Would Make Ratings Agencies Share Liability - NYTimes.com
• World Bank to buy distressed assets - FT Alphaville
• I.M.F. Calls for Overhaul of Financial System - NYTimes.com
• A Michigan job loss tsunami - UnderstandingSociety
• PPIP Starts with Modest $1.13 Billion Investment - WSJ.com
• I think markets are more efficient than does Robert Lucas - Richard Green
• Peer pressure builds more latrines than financial assistance - EurekAlert
• Journalism and Economics - Nick Rowe
• Another crash is all too possible - FT.com
• Determining the size of the fiscal multiplier - voxeu.org
• Does unconventional mon, policy solve the zero bound problem? - Paul Krugman
• Updated Long-Term Fiscal Deficit and Debt Projections — CBPP
• G.D.P. Shrank Less Than Expected in Quarter - NYTimes.com
• Q&A: Shiller Sees 5 Years of Stagnant Home Prices - Real Time Economics
• The Big Picture - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Economix - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Creative Class - Links
• naked capitalism - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-29

• Ryan Avent Does the Intellectual Trash Pickup - Brad DeLong
• The benefits of "population control" - Free exchange
• The true fiscal cost of stimulus - Paul Krugman
• The brighter side of high unemployment - Salon.com
• Fed Proposes Rules on Credit Cards - NYTimes.com
• Critics of ‘Cadillac Tax’ on Insurance Miss an Opportunity - NYTimes.com
• How Economists Lost Hayek, and Then Found Him - TCS Daily
• Bringing Economic Theory Back Down to Earth - Harold Meyerson
• Alternative economists - UnderstandingSociety
• America has passed on the baton- Jeff Sachs
• Monetary Theory, Once Again - Arnold Kling
• Whose Macro is Bizarre? - Arnold Kling
• The Newest Global Religion - Bill easterly
• Are financial products like technology? - Free exchange
• Brad DeLong - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Abnormal Returns
• Economix - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Economists Forum - links
• The Stash - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links

links for 2009-09-28

• The 4 percent solution - Paul Krugman
• Return of the old ways of thinking threatens recovery - FT.com
• Predicting Crises, Part II - FRBSF Economic Letter
• The Wrong Way to Criticize Healthcare Reform - Atlantic Business Channel
• In Liquid and Air, Scientists Find Order Among the Chaos - NYTimes.com
• Monetary Policy, Inflation Expectations, and the Price Puzzle - ERN
• Greenspan’s Legacy and Bernake’s attitude to Financial Crisis - ERN
• Evaluating Monetary Policy - NBER - Lars E.O. Svensson
• Asset Prices and Monetary Policy - ERN - Ichiro Fukunaga and Masashi Saito
• The hub and spoke model of money -- a rejoinder to Arnold Kling - Nick Rowe
• Putting Klingonomics to the Test - Macro and Other Market Musings
• Taxes and Deficits, Part 2 - Bruce Bartlett
• Lessons from the 1970s for Fed Policy Today - David Papell
• Paying more attention to financial shocks - voxeu.org
• ...like dropping acid, but not - Neave Strobe
• What did we really learn from the economic crisis? - FT.com
• The Fed draining reserves? - News N Economics
• Lab-grade economics - MIT News
• Is Mankiw being completely above board? - Environmental Economics
• Is Krugman being completely above board? - Environmental Economics
• The Stash - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Felix Salmon - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Economix - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-27

• The textbook economics of cap-and-trade - Paul Krugman
• Federal Reserve reverse repurchases - Econbrowser
• Neo-positivist philosophy of social science - UnderstandingSociety
• The Straw That Stirred the Drink - Economic Principals
• The dangers of puffing up asset bubbles -- Nouriel Roubini
• Decoding Kevin Warsh - Models & Agents
• Testing the Dexterity of a Crisis Manager - NYTimes.com
• The Virtues (and Vice?) of Central Bank Communication - SSRN - Alan Blinder
• The Evolution of Monetary Policy - SSRN - Otmar Issing
• Credit Frictions and Optimal Monetary Policy - SSRN - Curdia and Woodford
• Inflation Expec., Uncertainty and Monetary Policy - SSRN - Christopher Sims
• Responses to Two Critics - Arnold Kling
• “Too Big To Fail” Weakened Monetary Policy - Fisher and Rosenblum
• What Went Wrong-Krugman And Beyond - Open Left
• Fed Held Back as Evidence Mounted on Subprime Loan Abuses - washingtonpost
• The Fiscal Austerity Trap - Thomas Palley
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-26

• The great divide in macroeconomics - Urbanomics
• U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio - NYTimes.com
• Did Bankers’ Pay Add to the Financial Crisis? - NYTimes.com
• Making It Easier to Register as an Organ Donor - NYTimes.com
• Implications of Climate Change on Food Crops - Greed, Green and Grains
• A risky revival - FT.com
• Vanilla is a commodity - Interfluidity
• A (Bright) Students' Choice - Adam Smith's Lost Legacy
• Mackerels and Money - Nick Rowe
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-25

• Can China be the world’s growth engine? - voxeu.org
• Will output return to the pre-crisis level? - Antonio Fatas
• Meet the Hazzards - Nomi Prins & Christopher Hayes
• Economics focus: Much ado about multipliers - The Economist
• The G-20’s Empty Promises - Martin Feldstein
• Risk held at AIGFP was not a surprise - Economics of Contempt
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Stash - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Econbrowser - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-24

• Nice Try, Ed (Prescott) - Kids Prefer Cheese
• Keynes: The Return of the Master - Book review - Paul Krugman
• Cracking the brain's numerical code - EurekAlert
• The long-lasting socio-political effects of the economic crisis - voxeu.org
• A new way to auction off toxic assets - voxeu.org
• The Fed’s Job Is Only Half Over - Kevin M. Warsh
• What is the IMF's Mission? - Barry Eichengreen
• Jonathan Weil doesn't quite get the FDIC - The Curious Capitalist
• Volcker Says Obama Plan Could Lead to Future Bailouts - NYTimes.com
• Why social cues confuse babies and dogs in classic hiding game - EurekAlert
• Monetary Policy Shouldn’t Be Used to Pop Asset Bubbles - RTE
• Economy Recovered? Not So Fast, Romer Says - Real Time Economics
• How the feds are collecting billions in fees from bailed-out banks - Daniel Gross
• Goolsbee defends Obama fiscal policies - MTEF
• Can Countries Cut Carbon Emissions Without Hurting Growth? - Robert Stavins
• Securitisation and subprime mortgages - a contrarian view - FT Alphaville
• To coordinate or not to coordinate - voxeu.org
• Do jobless claims point to high structural unemployment? - Credit Writedowns
• Guantanamo: the new Canadian Hong Kong – Chris Blattman
• Asset Price Exuberance and Macroprudential Regulation - FRB Chicago
• Memories (Casey Mulligan edition) - Economics of Contempt
• The Stash - links
• The Big Picture - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Economix - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-23

• Government Spends Stimulus Money Faster Than Expected - NYTimes.com
• Study uncovers 'de-urbanization' of America - EurekAlert
• A Letter to Gerard Henderson - Andrew Leigh
• 10 Quick Questions For NYU Economist Mark Gertler - NYU Local
• GOP Favors Public Option for Property, Not People - David Cay Johnston
• Give women choices - Free exchange
• White House Pares Its Financial Reform Plan - NYTimes.com
• The freshwater backlash (boring) - Paul Krugman
• Animal Spirits and The Confidence Man - Trollblog
• Does the EMH Deny the Existence of Idiots? -  Modeled Behavior
• How I Became A Keynesian - Richard Posner
• The Stash - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-22

• Is it Models or the Economists? - David Colander
• Update on global protectionist measures - voxeu.org
• Break up America's banks - Dean Baker
• 'The Age of Empathy' by Frans de Waal - latimes.com
• Malpractice System Breeds More Waste in Medicine - NYTimes.com
• My day in at the University of Chicago - The Curious Capitalist
• Why China must do more to rebalance its economy - Economists' Forum
• The real effects of bank bailouts: Evidence from Japan - voxeu.org
• Central bank rates one year from now...FF up 52 bps - News N Economics
• Why the Dow is Hitting 10,000... - Robert Reich
• Is Stimulus Still Necessary? - Robert Skidelsky
• A Rough Consensus on Lessons of Crisis as G-20 Gathers - NYTimes.com
• What's new in inequality? - Free exchange
• Output, employment and productivity during the crisis - Antonio Fatas
• In Defense of the Rating Agencies — IV - The Aleph Blog
• The age of electric vehicles is upon us - Jeffrey Sachs

links for 2009-09-21

• Looking to Healthy Banks to Lend to the F.D.I.C. - NYTimes.com
• Household debt, consumption and wealth - Ilian Mihov
• Political competition produces better politicians - voxeu.org
• New Light on the Plight of Winter Babies - WSJ.com
• A Critical Assessment of Estimates of Core Inflation - WP - Colin Bermingham
• Misperceptions About American Income Inequality - NBER - Robert Gordon
• Sadly for Paul Kedrosky, newspapers are not dead - Kids Prefer Cheese
• Meeting at Duke to discuss the Krugman critique - Hist. of Econ. Playground
• The next casualty of the financial crisis: public universities - PSD Blog
• Is the very idea of "economic development" racist? - Andrew Gelman
• As I read the debate over the stimulus... - Richard Green
• What's next? - Free exchange
• Why the Lehman failure did change everything - Economists' Forum
• It’s all over: The banks have won - The Great Debate
• Unemployment Insurance for the Great Recession - Brookings Institution
• Mankiw on Drugs - Cheap Talk
• This Is Greg Mankiw On Drugs -  Modeled Behavior
• Karl Smith Is Somewhat Bewildered by the State of Modern Macro - Brad DeLong
• What it means to predict a crisis - Marginal Revolution
• Alex Rosenberg on Cochrane and Economics - Leiter Reports
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• Economix - links
• FT Alphaville - links
• The Big Picture - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-20

• What to do with Moody’s, S & P and the rating agencies - James Surowiecki
• Keynes: The Return of the Master - Book Review - Mankiw
• Keynes In Context - Economic Principals
• Krugman vs. Cochrane - Karl Smith
• Neurath on sociology - UnderstandingSociety
• Is this really a success? - Richard Green
• Estimating the Effect of Stimulus: Just What Is Going on Here? - Brad DeLong
• The State of Macro: Narayana Kocherlakota Leaves Me Puzzled - Brad DeLong
• A Petition to Save Heterodox Economics at Notre Dame - Open Economics
• Leading Senator Pushes New Plan to Oversee Banks - NYTimes.com
• Economy improves but concerns remain - Jim Hamilton
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Brad DeLong - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Abnormal Returns - links

links for 2009-09-19

• Pittsburgh will shape global financial system - Barry Eichengreen
• The essential pillars of a new climate pact - Olmstead and Stavins
• Chicago Schooled - The University of Chicago Magazine
• The Vienna Circle on interdisciplinary science - UnderstandingSociety
• The Financial Crisis and America’s Casino Culture - NYTimes.com
• Tax Code Woefully Out of Date on Energy Policy - Miller-McCune
• Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions (ch. 9) - Marxists.org
• Memories of the Phelps/Lucas administration - Nick Rowe
• Outside the bubble - The Age
• The Intellectual Bankruptcy of the Chicago School... - Brad Delong
• New Deal - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Cheap Talk - links
• The Big Picture - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• naked capitalism - links
• Economix - links
• Brad DeLong - links

links for 2009-09-18

• Review of 'Keynes: The Return of the Master' - washingtonpost.com
• The Redemption of Keynes - BusinessWeek
• The Fed contemplates compensation rules for banks - Curious Capitalist
• Fed Considers Bank Pay Limits - NYTimes.com
• An Open Letter to Paul Krugman - David K. Levine
• In search of discipline - Free exchange
• Maybe Securitization Didn't Cause The Crisis - The New Republic
• The WSJ fudges the facts on economic inequality - Bruce Judson
• Guest Post: Are Financial Blogs Trustworthy? - naked capitalism
• Some Obama Foes Are Indeed Racists - washingtonpost.com
• "Homeless student count surges" - The Register-Guard
• Getting finance into macro models - Mostly Economics
• Not Brixton, Barking - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Industrial Policy Showdown at World Bank - Easterly
• Summers hits back at agency plan critics - FT.com

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Recent additions to "What's Wrong with Macroeconomics?":

Added 9/19:

• David K. Levine: An Open Letter to Paul Krugman
• Gilles Saint‑Paul: A "modest" intellectual discipline
• David Gruen: Outside the Bubble
• Paul Krugman: Memories of the Carter Administration

Added 9/18:

• Arnold Kling: On the state of macro
• Justin Wolfers: The macro wars ... or not
• Barry Ritholtz: The Mystery of the Awful Economists (3/05 alternate link)
• Barry Ritholtz: Mystery of the Awful Economists, part 2 (4/05)
• Barry Ritholtz: Mystery of the Awful Economists (Part III) (4/05)
• Barry Ritholtz: The Illusory World of Economic Forecasting (9/06)
• Barry Ritholtz: RIP Chicago School of Economics: 1976-2008
• Barry Ritholtz: Read It Here First: “What Good Are Economists?”
• Barry Ritholtz: Why Economists Missed the Crises

Added 9/17:

• John Quiggin: The Macro Wars
• John Quiggin: Micro-based macro-introduction
• Mark Thoma: "Did Economists Ever Get it Right?"
• Narayana Kocherlakota: Some Thoughts on the State of Macro

Added 9/16:

• Malin Hu: The Curious Case of Macroeconomics
• Mark Thoma: Who Has All the Answers?
• Michael Roberts: About the Great Marcoeconomic Debate
• Murat Iyigun: Johnny B. Goode

Added 9/15:

• Brad DeLong: The Chicago School's Intellectual Collapse Continued: Richard Posner Is Uranus...
• Peter Dorman: Did Krugman Get it Right on How the Economists Got it Wrong?
  (part 2)
• Murat Iyigun: Paul: Hand Johnny Some Rope, Will You?
• Justin Wolfers: Lucas on the Shortcomings of Modern Macro

links for 2009-09-17

• Is Paul Volcker a liquidationist? - Free exchange
• An agnostic gets a little religion - macroblog
• All Microeconomics gets Say's/Walras' Law wrong - Nick Rowe
• Lack of insurance causes more than 44,000 U.S. deaths annually - SciAm
• A Modern Safety Net - The American Prospect
• Proposals Ban ‘Flash’ Trading and Limit Rating Firms - NYTimes.com
• About the Great Marcoeconomic Debate - Michael Roberts
• What would it take for Say's law to hold - Robert's Stochastic thoughts
• History of sociology as sociology - UnderstandingSociety
• Former top IMF economist sees rosy days ahead - McClatchy
• Reducing media bias through regulation - voxeu.org
• Why Olympia Snowe Should Vote Against the Baucus Plan - Robert Reich
• Friends Don't Let Friends Mix Say's Law with Money - David Beckworth
• Road to Harmonious Decline in Japan - Project Syndicate
• A Short History of Fast Times on Wall Street - NYTimes.com
• Serves Us Right - NYTimes.com
• Does the Equation of Exchange Shed Light on the Crisis? - David Beckworth
• Some Thoughts on the State of Macro - N. Kocherlakota (Minnesota)
• The Imperial Origins of State-Led Development - Easterly
• ND to Dissolve 'Heterodox' Side of Econ Dept - Chron of Higher Ed
• Agrarian history -- the Weber edition - UnderstandingSociety
• The Right Wing is Smearing David Michaels - Discover