Links for 08-16-2013

• How the wealthy keep themselves on top - Tim Harford
• Peggy Noonan’s telling anecdote - Incidental Economist
• The Soft Bigotry of Low European Expectations - Paul Krugman
• Controlling Health Care Spending, Revisited - NYTimes.com
• Some Economic Implications of Global Climate Change - Econbrowser
• Top Economics graduate programs are not as good as you think - Economic Logic
• No, Lending To Poor People Did Not Cause The Financial Crisis - ThinkProgress
• New Keynesians really need the Pigou effect - Nick Rowe
• A Euro Narrative - Tim Taylor
• From boom to bust? - vox
• The Good Web - Paul Krugman
• Corporate Taxes and Union Wages in the United States - owenzidar
• Some Fiscal Implications of Monetary Policy - Liberty Street Economics
• Which Is Worse: Airline Monopolies or Airline Competition? - Justin Fox
• Annals of Austerity FAIL, Eurozone Redux - Kenneth Thomas
• New Zealand May Clip Central Banker’s Wings - WSJ
• The wrong sort of recovery - mainly macro