Links for 01-15-2013

• Japanese Convergence and Non-Convergence - Brad DeLong
• The Debt Ceiling Is Scarier Than the Fiscal Cliff - Alan Blinder
• Bernanke to Congress: Do your job, Pay the Bills - Calculated Risk
• Obama's Gamble on the Debt Ceiling - Robert Reich
• China’s Impact on U.S. Inflation - Liberty Street
• Bernanke Unplugged - NYTimes.com
• Redistribution in the age of robots - Noahpinion
• Risk Shocks (NBER) - Christiano, Motto, and Rostagno
• The New Science of Pleasure (NBER) - Daniel McFadden
• Chimpanzees successfully play the Ultimatum Game - EurekAlert
• Live Giant Squid Filmed In Deep Ocean - Scientific American
• How to Induce Explosive Debt Dynamics - Econbrowser
• On the Unbearable Self-Indulgence of Centrist Economics - Paul Krugman
• Great Moments in Policy Analysis: Heritage on the Debt Ceiling - Econbrowser
• All Our Base Are Belong To Us (Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• The Toll of High Unemployment - Brookings Institution
• Balance of Payments in the European Periphery - FRBSF
• Missing in action: Growth and shared prosperity - EPI
• Can job polarization explain wage trends? - EPI
• Job polarization in the 2000s? - EPI
• Floor Systems - Stephen Williamson
• Will people spend or save? - EurekAlert
• Fed’s Lockhart: Wrong to Call Current Policy ‘QE Infinity’ - WSJ
• Fed’s Williams: Bond Buying Likely to Continue Into Late 2013 - WSJ
• The markets paradox - Chris Dillow
• The Game Theory of the Post-Platinum Coin Debt Ceiling - Rortybomb
• Some Thoughts on James Buchanan - Tim Taylor
• Using the Tragedy of the Commons to the benefit of society - Tim Haab
• The Science of Prophets and Profits - Nancy Folbre
• Resolving the Safe Asset Shortage Problem - David Beckworth