links for 2009-12-17

• Slouching Toward Health Care Reform - Robert Reich
• Pointing the finger - Free Exchange - The Economist
• The Simpsons turns 20 today - Boing Boing
• Public intellectuals and the financial crisis - Prospect Magazine
• Modellers claim wars are predictable - Scientific American
• I Disagree with Paul Krugman about the Minimum Wage - Robert Waldmann
• Using inflation to erode the US public debt - voxeu.org
• Merton's sociology of science - UnderstandingSociety
• The personal side of economics - Harvard Gazette
• Thoma Discusses Bernanke Second Term, Fed's Regulation: Video - Bloomberg
• Mark Thoma: Libertarians & populists against Bernanke - Credit Writedowns
• Greenspan warns on deficit threat - Money Supply
• On the Distribution of Gains from Government Action - Rajiv Sethi
• Financial market regulation: Stability through democratic diversity - voxeu.org
• Minimum Wage Cuts: What Are Economists Arguing About? -  Modeled Behavior
• Teaching Macro, after the Great Recession - Econbrowser
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims - Calculated Risk
• Economix - links
• New Deal 2.0 - links
• The Stash - links
• Economists Forum - links
• Free Exchange - links
• Credit Writedowns - links
• Marginal Revolution - links
• Abnormal Returns - links
• Market Talk - links
• Brad DeLong - links