Links for 11-19-2012

• ‘Shadow Banking’ Up to $67 Trillion, Financial Group Says - NYT
• Should the Eurozone’s fiscal rules be abolished? - mainly macro
• Curtailing Intellectual Monopoly - Rajiv Sethi
• The Story of the Recent Election - Economic Principals
• Is the U.S. the most immigrant friendly country? - Modeled Behavior
• FSB seeks to tame shadow banking - FT.com
• FDL Book Salon Welcomes Sheila Bair - James Galbraith
• What not to worry about in the euro crisis - FT.com
• The Insecurity Election - Paul Krugman
• Europe in recession - Jim Hamilton
• Assessing Heckman's Two-Step Estimator - Dave Giles
• The Next Chapters in the Republican War on Math - Heather Boushey
• Do parents act in the best interests of their children? - Miles Corak
• Are Roads Public Goods? - Kids Prefer Cheese
• Precautionary taxation vs tax-smoothing - Nick Rowe
• Thomas Friedman Says Employers Can't Do Arithmetic - Beat the Press