Links for 05-24-2013

• The case for 4% inflation - Laurence Ball
• It’s Not About You - Paul Krugman
• Michael Kinsley's Repeated Factual Errors - Brad DeLong
• The Liquidity Trap and Macro Textbooks - mainly macro
• America's Frogs and Toads Disappearing Fast - Scientific American
• Conservative economists push immigration reform - Seung Min Kim
• The strangely familiar browsing habits of 14th-century readers - MIT News
• The Economic Nature of the Resource Curse: Mechanisms - Why Nations Fail
• I-5 bridge collapses, throwspeople into river (Infrastructure) - Register-Guard
• Is There Really a "Conservative Reform" Movement in Policy? - Rortybomb
• An Economist's Warning on Global Warming - Paul Solman
• Martin Wolf's climate change column - The Interpreter
• Google faces fresh inquiry from FTC - FT.com
• Fed Study Rebuts Banks on Swipe Fees - WSJ
• A Subtle View of Labor Market Improvement - macroblog
• IMF Rethinking Role in Managing Sovereign Debt in Crises - WSJ
• Michael Kinsley Gets It Wrong On "Austerians" - Rortybomb
• The Anatomy of a Digital Business Negotiation - Digitopoly
• Who Will Stick Up For the IRS? - Kevin Drum
• The Changing Face of Community Colleges - Economix
• Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims decline to 340,000 - Calculated Risk
• Elementary, My Dear Watanabe-san (Somewhat Wonkish) - Paul Krugman
• How a Big-Bank Failure Could Unfold - Economix