Links for 10-15-14

• The State of Macro, Six Years Later - Paul Krugman
• Why I Care about Inequality - Growth Economics
• Fed Is Silent on Doomsday Book - NYTimes.com
• Three ways of understanding the world - Noahpinion
• Short-run impulsiveness versus long-run impatience - vox
• Maximising happiness does not maximise welfare - vox
• Nobody Understands the Liquidity Trap - Paul Krugman
• How to do better than the ‘new mediocre’ - Martin Wolf
• It makes sense for the Fed to speak out about dollar - Robin Harding
• Department of "Huh?!": Another Thomas Piketty Edition - Brad DeLong
• Economists on Thomas Piketty's Thesis - Justin Wolfers
• Poll Results: Piketty on Inequality - IGM Forum
• Job polarization - Stumbling and Mumbling
• The Risks of Cheap Water - NYTimes.com
• When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause - NYT
• Walmart’s cuts to worker pay are self-defeating - David Cay Johnston
• Do Plastic Bag Bans Work? - Scientific American
• A Comment on StrawKrugman - Robert Waldman
• Teaching economics - The Enlightened Economist
• Hicks on IS-LM and Temporary Equilibrium - Uneasy Money
• Monetary policy: When will they learn? - The Economist

• The Nobel Prize to Jean Tirole - Tim Taylor
• Tirole’s Work Helps Explain the Internet Economy - NYTimes.com
• Tirole told us how to tame the big firms - Lindau Economics
• Q. and A. With Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize Winner - NYTimes.com
• A Worthy Economics Nobel for Jean Tirole - John Cassidy
• Jean Tirole and the Triumph of Calculated Silliness - Paul Krugman