Links for 2011-12-06

• Asset Price Booms and Current Account Deficits - FRBSF
• The Case for Active Labor Market Policies - Tim Taylor
• It’s the Wrong Time to Withdraw Help for the Economy - Treasury Notes
• What to teach intro economics students - Noahpinion
• Black Holes Are Most Massive Ever Discovered - Scientific American
• Mankiw channels Lukacs - Crooked Timber
• The Search for an Era of Labor Peace - NYTimes.com
• Things That Never Happened In Macroeconomics - Paul Krugman
• Fed’s Evans Willing to Risk Higher Inflation to Boost Growth - WSJ
• Review Of David Graeber's 5,000 Years of Debt - Gavin Kennedy
• Keynesian and Permanent Income Motivations... - Econbrowser
• Students can’t write (or read) - The Berkeley Blog
• OECD Suggests Raising Taxes to Combat Inequality - RTE
• Would You Trust a Randian Banker? - FrumForum
• With changes, the grid can take it - MIT News
• Time to Legalise Cannabis - Vox EU