Links for 12-05-2012

• 11 shocking facts about Simpson-Bowles - Ezra Klein
• Unionizing at the Low End of the Pay Scale - NYTimes.com
• The midlife crisis in humans and other apes - Andrew Oswald
• Psychodrama Queens, Revisited - Paul Krugman
• How to Get a Budget Deal Instead of the Cliff - Alan Blinder
• The Importance of Unemployment Insurance - Brookings Institution
• The allies who moulded the welfare state - FT.com
• Climate Change Strategies (Including Mangroves) - Tim Taylor
• The Debtor Prisoner’s Dilemma - Harold James
• Industry Structure and Systemic Risk Regulation - FRB - Tarullo
• Degree Inflation? Jobs That Newly Require B.A.'s - NYTimes.com
• The IMF and Capital Controls - Paul Krugman
• Three-Card Budget Monte - Paul Krugman
• Fiscal Slope Negotiations - Menzie Chinn
• Against the Coupon State - Next New Deal