Links for 01-02-2014

• The Rich Country Trap - NYTimes.com
• Economics and the Immigration debate - mainly macro
• An economic model for amending the Treaty of Lisbon - Basu and Stiglitz
• Connecting the Research World with the Policy World - Jim Bullard
• The UK Coalition’s fiscal ‘mission accomplished’ twaddle - longandvariable
• Auctions and Binary Quadratic Programs - Leisure of the Theory Class
• Nominal-loss-aversion and its consequences - Nick Rowe
• A lack of ethics - Econbrowser
• Respect - Chris Dillow