(a post) The Conservative World .....

The Conservative World View and Prison Population and the War on Drugs

A post by Mike Konczal in his blog Rortybomb

To link to this post, click below:
http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/12/23/the-conservative-world-view-and-prison-populations-war-on-drugs/

• Mike Konczal, a former financial engineer, is a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, who also blogs at New Deal 2.0, and is working on financial reform, the 21st century economy, structural unemployment, inequality, risk sharing, consumer access to financial services and more generally what it means to have a social contract in a financialized, post-industrial economy. He’s written papers for the Roosevelt Institute about financial reform several times as well as the deficit and the unemployment crisis. His work has appeared at The Atlantic Monthly’s Business Channel, NPR’s Planet Money, Slate, Baseline Scenario, Seeking Alpha, Huffington Post and The Nation. Originally from Chicago, he enjoys finance, economics, sociology, theory, tacos and center-left politics on the side.

http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/a-little-more-on-prisons-incapacitation-and-conservative-thought/

http://rortybomb.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/a-little-more-on-prisons-incapacitation-and-conservative-thought/

(a link to the post) "How the Financial Crisis Made Big Banks Bigger"

A post entitled How the Financial Crisis Made Big Banks Bigger by David Indiviglio (December 30, 2010) in the The Atlantic.online.

To link to the post, click below:  

How the Financial Crisis Made Big Banks Bigger - Daniel Indiviglio - Business - The Atlantic

•   Daniel Indiviglio is an associate editor at The Atlantic, where he writes about credit markets, regulation, monetary & fiscal policy, taxes, banking, trade, emerging markets and technology. Prior to joining The Atlantic, he wrote for Forbes. He also worked as an investment banker and a consultant.

(a link to the smack-down) Ryan Avent smacks Robert Samuelson on August 24, 2010

What's wrong with the press?
Ryan Avent "smacks down" economist Robert Samuelson  in Grist: A Beacon in the Smog  

To link to post, click below:
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-08-24-the-washington-post-features-rail-hack-job-from-robert-samuelson

• Ryan Avent is Ryan Avent is a freelance economics writer living in Washington, D.C. He blogs at ryanavent.com, and at The Economist’s Free Exchange.  His work has appeared at Condé Nast Portfolio, the Atlantic, the Guardian, the American Prospect, the Washington Independent, the Washington Examiner, Streetsblog, Grist, DCist, and probably some other places.

Matt Bai Still Doesn't Understand Political Parties | The New Republic

Matt Bai Still Doesn't Understand Political Parties | The New Republic

(a link to the post) "Who Wanted What"

Or Why the Republicans Probably Got What They Wanted in the 2010 Tax Bill
A short post by Jame Kwak in the blog Baseline Scenario.com
To link to the post, click below:
  http://baselinescenario.com/2010/12/10/who-wanted-what/#more-8380

• Jame Kwak   a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario, and with Simon Johnson is co-authors of the book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.

• Note: In this link, James Kwak suggests that the Republicans may have got what they wanted in the 2010 tax bill because what they got in the tax package supports their long term goals whereas what the Democrats got are short term (2 year) gains.  From this perspective, the Republicans won --- and for the Democrats, the glass should be seen as half-empty, or less. This is my take, Stephen Cusulos.  PS good charts and references to other "takes" on whether the tax deal served the Democrats well.

(a link to a short post) "The Feudal Lords of Finance"

 What’s wrong with high levels of inequality?
Simon Johnson address this question in the blog Baseline Scenario.com
To link to the post, click below: 
http://baselinescenario.com/2009/12/01/feudal-lords-of-finance/

• Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a member of the CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers.  He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario, Simon Johnson and Jame Kwak are co-authors of the book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.

(a link to the post) " Banking in a State" by Simon Johnson

A post by Simon Johnson (November 17, 2009) in his blog Baseline Scenario.com

To link to the post, click below: 

http://baselinescenario.com/2009/11/17/banking-in-a-state/

• Simon Johnson, former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and a member of the CBO’s Panel of Economic Advisers.  He is a co-founder of The Baseline Scenario, Simon Johnson and Jame Kwak are co-authors of the book 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown.

Food for Political Thought: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/04/financial_reform_0

Food for Political Thought: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/04/financial_reform_0

(a post) "First Define the Problem"

Some Depressing Thoughts on Banking Reform

Posted by Ryan Avent in the Economist on-line blog
 To link to this post, click below
http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/04/financial_reform_0

• Ryan Avent is Ryan Avent is a freelance economics writer living in Washington, D.C. He blogs at ryanavent.com, and at The Economist’s Free Exchange.  His work has appeared at Condé Nast Portfolio, the Atlantic, the Guardian, the American Prospect, the Washington Independent, the Washington Examiner, Streetsblog, Grist, DCist, and probably some other places.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/04/financial_reform_0

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2010/04/financial_reform_0

A link to "The Good Paul Krugman and the Bad Paul Krugman"

A post by Richard A Posner in the "Business" section of the Atlantic.com.(June 3, 2009)
To link to the post, click below: 
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/06/the-good-paul-krugman-and-the-bad-paul-krugman/18718/

• Richard Posner is an author and federal appeals court judge. He has written more than 2500 published judicial opinions and continues to teach at the University of Chicago Law School.   He post along with economist Gary Becker at Becker/Posner blog (http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/)

http://www.tnr.com/blogs/the-vine

http://www.tnr.com/blogs/the-vine

*Zombie Lies Try To Eat Krugman's Brain -- "a quick hit"

Zombie Lies Try To Eat Krugman's Brain | The New Republic
"A Quick Hit" by Jonathan Chait at The New Republic.com

A link to "The Retreat of Macroeconomic Policy"

Posted by Brad Delong in the "Anatomy of Global Economy" column at Project Syndicate.org
    To link to the post, click: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/delong108/English

• J. Bradford DeLong, a former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research

A link to "A Time to Spend"

Posted by Brad Delong in the "Anatomy of Global Economy" column at Project Syndicate.org
To link to the post, click below:

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/delong109/English

•  J. Bradford DeLong, a former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, is Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and a Research Associate at the National Bureau for Economic Research.

A link to an article "Mr. Bernanke Goes to War"

 An essay by Barry Eichengreen published in the National Interest.org
To link to this article, click below:
  http://nationalinterest.org/article/mr-bernanke-goes-war-4573

• Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System (Oxford University Press, 2011).

A link to "Shaking the Invisible Hand" (a review of books)

A review by Liquat Ahamed on books by authors John Cassidy, Brad Delong and Stephen Cohen, Richard Posner, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, and Joseph Stiglitz, that explore the failures of the marketplace economics (published in The National Interest.org
 http://nationalinterest.org/bookreview/shaking-the-invisible-hand-3386?page=6

• Liquat Ahamed is the author of Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Penguin Press, 2009).

TPMtalks with Liaquat Ahamed

A link to "First Bank of the Living Dead" | (a review of books)

 Daniel Drezner reviews books by
 http://nationalinterest.org/bookreview/bank-living-dead-3926?page=5

• Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a senior editor at The National Interest.

(a post) by Simon Johnson

Voodoo Economics Revisited
In "Hopeful Science" blog at Project Syndicate.org.,  Simon Johnson posts: "The market is nervous – mostly about the prospect of large fiscal deficits as far as the eye can see. Some commentators dismiss this as irrational, but, again, that is wishful thinking. The path-breaking work over many years of Carmen Reinhart, my colleague at the Peterson Institute in Washington, makes this very clear – no country, including the US, escapes the deleterious consequences of persistent large fiscal deficits. (Indeed, her book with Ken Rogoff, This Time Is Different, should be required reading for US policymakers.)"

To link to this post, click below:
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/johnson15/English

• Simon Johnson, a former chief economist of the IMF, is co-founder of a leading economics blog, http://BaselineScenario.com, a professor at MIT Sloan, and a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International. H Economics. And with James Kwak, he is co-author of  13 Banker:  The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdowon.

(A post) "Gordon Gekko Reborn" (addressing the problem of "greed")

  A post by Nuriel Roubini in the Project Syndicate's International Economics column.  
Mr Roubini begins his post: "In the 1987 film Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko famously declared, “Greed is good.”

To link to this post, click below:
 http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/roubini28/English 

• Nouriel Roubini is Professor of Economics at the Stern School of Business, NYU, Chairman of Roubini Global Economics (www.roubini.com), and co-author of the book Crisis Economics. He has a cameo role in Oliver Stone’s new film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
  

A link to "The Phony Attack on Climate Science"

A commentary posted by Jeffrey Sachs in the Project Syndicate's "Economics of Development" column.
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sachs163/English

• Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.

A link to "America’s Political Class Struggle"

 A commentary posted by Jeffrey Sachs in the Project Syndicate's "Economics of Development" column.     http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/sachs173/EnglishJeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.

A link to "Where Do We Go from Here?"

 An article by Paul Krugman and Robin Wells   published in the New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jan/13/where-do-we-go-here/
 

A link to "An Economic Theory That Uses Micro Forces to Explain Macro Outcomes: Why the Economy Stubbornly Insists on Growing More Slowly When Taxes are Lower"

A post in Presemtrics.com on December 12, 2010 by Mike Kimel
http://www.presimetrics.com/blog/?p=256

A link to "A Simple Explanation for a Strange Paradox: Why the US Economy Grew Faster When Tax Rates Were High, and Grew Slower When Tax Rates Were Low"

 A post on December 18, 2010,  by Mike Kimel in the blog Presimetrics
 http://www.presimetrics.com/blog/?p=261

A link to "GOP Victory May End Government Economic Intervention"

 A post published in The Fiscal Times.com by economist by Mark Thoma
 http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Issues/The-Economy/2010/11/09/GOP-Victory-May-End-Government-Economic-Intervention.aspx

"Robert Samuelson's Social Security Demagoguery ..." (A smack-down)

A smack-down of the economist Robert Samuelson posted by Dean Baker in his Beat the Press, a blog of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
To link to this post, click: http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/robert-samuelsons-social-security-demagoguery-at-the-washington-post?sms_ss=blogger&at_xt=4d19855fa5be541c%2C0 

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A Link to "Faking Right: How the Republican Congress will abandon Tea Party ideas and legislate toward the center."

A post by Jacob Weisberg on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010, at 6:54 AM ET in his Slate.com blog.

 http://www.slate.com/id/2272766/ 

A link to "Tea Party Taxonomy: A short history of the activists that started the groups that helped create the movement that became the Tea Party"

A post by David Weigel Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, at 2:35 PM ET in his blog at Slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2272766/