links for 2011-02-24

• The Economic Silly Season Is Upon Us - Alan Blinder
• Is free trade efficient and/or good? - Urbanomics
• Is trade really always efficient? - Noahpinion
• Winners & Losers from Free Trade - pgl
• Thoughts on International Trade - The Bonddad Blog
• Peer effects in education - voxeu.org
• The irony of the tragedy of the commons - The Economist
• How we can get America working again - FT.com
• Oil prices and consumer spending - Angry Bear
• Tolstoy On Hyperbolic Discounting - Cheap Talk
• Global inflation and the Fed: One more time - macroblog
• Really Bad Reporting in Wisconsin - David Cay Johnston
• Rising Oil Prices Pose the Latest Threat To U.S. Economy - NYTimes.com
• The Two Worlds of Trade - EconoSpeak
• Calibrating the Macro Effects of Higher Oil Prices - Macroadvisers
• Migrants’ Remittances and Related Economic Flows - CBO Director's Blog
• Home Sales: Distressing Gap - Calculated Risk
• What Will New Economic Thinking Look Like? - TripleCrisis
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decrease to 391,000 - Calculated Risk
• Putting People Back to Work - NYTimes.com
• Quantitative Easing and America’s Economic Rebound - Martin Feldstein
• An Antidote for the Corporate Poison Pill - Lucian Bebchuk
• Does the U.S. Really Have a Fiscal Crisis? - Simon Johnson
• Econ Journal Footnote of the Year - Twenty-Cent Paradigms