Links for 01-14-15

• Rage and Reaganolatry - Paul Krugman
• Why Wages Won't Rise - Robert Reich
• Wall St. Pushes to Undermine Dodd-Frank Reform - NYTimes.com
• The Industrial Revolution and Modern Development - Growth Economics
• A simple model where NGDP targeting beats inflation targeting - Nick Rowe
• What's the Right Model for the Worker Organizations? - Prospect.org
• Higher Wages for Lead to Higher Productivity - Wolfers and Zilinsky
• Shale oil and gasoline prices - Vox EU
• The $250 Econ 101 Textbook - Craig Richardson
• The Costs of Stinginess in Medicaid - NYTimes.com
• A Trip Down Euromemory Lane - Paul Krugman
• The Invisible Hand of Alan Blinder - TripleCrisis
• 0.5% annual CPI inflation. Good news? - longandvariable
• The 2014 oil price slump: Seven key questions - Vox EU
• Is higher education the answer to reducing income inequality? - Nick Bunker
• How much is a (micro)life worth? - Tim Harford
• Austerity & debt stabilization - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Financial crises as global sunspots - Roger Farmer
• Why did Osborne not try to protect the recovery in 2010? - mainly macro
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen’s Bold Attack on Inequality - Jared Bernstein
• Financial Transaction Tax Would Curb Risky Trading - The New Republic
• Elites fight back against mismeasure of poverty - David Cay Johnston
• No gain if unfair - EurekAlert!
• How to measure risky sex - Vox EU