links for 2011-01-03

• Making the grade: Equity and efficiency in education - voxeu.org
• States Seek Laws to Curb Power of Unions - NYTimes.com
• He Worked for Goldman Sachs -- But He Didn't Inhale - Andrew Samwick
• House Republicans Outline Budget Cuts - NYTimes.com
• Book review: Dan Gardner's "Future Babble" - Stephen Gordon
• On Reading "The Financial Crisis Primer" - Econbrowser
• The Big Lie - Robert Reich
• Revealing Study of FOMC References to the Fed's Mandate - John Taylor
• Felix Salmon smackdown watch, Rubin/Sperling edition - Felix Salmon
• Saving conservatives from themselves - TheMoneyIllusion
• I'll Never Ration. Not Me. Not I. - NYTimes.com
• Five Possible Dark Clouds Over Brightening Skies - Real Time Economics
• Tax Cuts Trump Deficit Reduction for House Republicans - CBPP
• The Jobs They Are A-Changin' - NYTimes.com
• Taking Aim at Public Workers - NYTimes.com
• Central banks underpin euro and diversify,,, - Rebecca Wilder
• Angus tries to be a one armed economist - Kids Prefer Cheese
• Downward to Stagnation: Wage policies in times of crisis - TripleCrisis
• The Euro and the European Project - Paul Krugman
• Tree-conomics - Nancy Folbre
• Replacing Summers with a Wall Street millionaire - Felix Salmon
• I Am Now, and Have for Eighteen Years Been, a Rubinite... - Brad DeLong
• The End of Relativism? - History of Economics Playground