Links for 10-17-15

• On Thoughtful Conservatives - Paul Krugman
• Populism and Patrimonialism - Crooked Timber
• Nobel Winner Prizes Data That Congress Disdains - NY Times
• ABM approaches to social conflict - Understanding Society
• Putting Numbers to a Tax Increase for the Rich - The New York Times
• Interest Rates, Ideology and Caring About the Future - EconoSpeak
• When Global Demand Shifts: Cars and Movies - Tim Taylor
• JP Morgan Slimming Down Due toCapital Requirements - Rortybomb
• Migration, “Free” Trade and China in History - Econbrowser
• Conning the working-class - Stumbling and Mumbling
• Who Wants to Be the Richest Economist? - Liberty Street Economics
• The Role of Rents in the Rise in In equality - Furman and Orszag
• A Rising Tide Does Not Lift All Boats - David Cay Johnston
• End of Too Big to Fail Subsidies? - Dean Baker