links for 2010-02-19 John Holbo: Trompe le Mond: Deceiving Demons and Universal Holograms Andrew Samwick: Difficult to Administer and Prone to Abuse The Medium Lobster: Mule Variations Todd Gitlin: Brain Death at the Washington Post The Washington Post Masthead The Epic Of Gilgamesh Howard Gleckman: Dueling Jobs Credits: And the winner is—Obama. Bradford Plumer: How Worrisome Is Ocean Acidification? Tom Braithwaite: Obama to push for stricter capital levels Samuel Brittan: Greek light on an over-hasty project Michael Cohen: What Makes America Ungovernable Gillian Tett: The US battle to pull the props Kate Nepveu: LotR re-read: Boskone panel on worldbuilding anomalies with Tom Shippey European Monetary Fund Roundtable gonzoecon.com Austin Frakt: The Atlantic’s Contrarian Problem Matthew Yglesias: After Career of Backing Huge, Growing Deficits, Jim Kolbe Says It’s Time to Tell The Truth Rufus F.: The Epic of Gilgamesh Rajiv Sethi: Natural Selection, Self-Deception and the Moral Hazard Explanation of the Financial Crisis James R. Horney and Robert Greenstein: Getting the Facts Straight — A Tale of Deficits Under Two Presidents Dan Gross: Don't listen to those Republicans. The stimulus has been a big success. Giulia Catini et al.: Macro Data 4 Stata Wonkette : Black Man Puts His Feet On Desk, Wingnuts Furious Ran Abramitzky et al.": The productivity effects of migration controls: New insights from the 19th century Charles Goodheart et al.: Dividend restrictions as macroprudential regulation Lydia Peatey: Very simple way to generate high-quality DeLong smackdowns: Sell your soul and disagree with Paul Krugman more... Adam Haslett: Is the Treasury Secretary Doing a Good Job? UC Davis: Institute of Governmental Affairs: All-UC Group in Economic History Conference Adam Serwer: Refusing To Get What You See Matt Steinglass: Israel, demography, democracy or apartheid: Ehud Barak breaks the apartheid barrier Bob Litan: In Defense of Much, But Not All, Financial Innovation
