links for 2010-08-26

• Fiscal Austerity and America's Future - Simon Johnson
• Prices vs quantities in the great trade collapse: New evidence - voxeu
• We're Still In A Paradox Of Thrift World - Paul Krugman
• Displaced Workers Summary - BLS
• Stephen Williamson and Cargo-Cult Macroeconomics - Brad DeLong
• Global Imbalances: Good for the World? - MacroMania
• A Nice Sentence - Arnold Kling
• O'Hare on the Public Good--The Case of the University - Underbelly
• We Are What We Read (I Think) - Maxine Udall
• Why Boehner's Blaming Bureaucrats - Robert Reich
• The return of beggar-my-neighbour policy - Samuel Brittan
• No Bailout Needed for Social Security - CBPP
• Economic analysis of localvore choices - Knowledge Problem
• Fiscal policy: Is economics a right wing conspiracy? - The Economist
• Synergy Between Cato and Koch Industry Lobbyists on FinReg? - Rortybomb
• Superfreakymacroeconomics - TheMoneyIllusion
• Income inequality: How inequality fueled the crisis - The Economist
• Am I an activist for caring about my grandchildren's future? - James Hansen
• Fears of Regime Change in New York - naked capitalism
• Wonk City: More on Deflation and Interest Rates -  Modeled Behavior
• Book Review: The Big Short by Michael Lewis - A Dash of Insight
• Spending vs. PSST - Arnold Kling
• Anchors Away - Paul Krugman
• Growth in a Buddhist Economy - Jeff Sachs
• Mechanisms of contention reconsidered - UnderstandingSociety
• An Increasingly Awkward Dance - The White House