Links of the Week - 8 August 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Trick or Tweak
Paul Krugman

The economy’s troubling double standard for black men
Jonnelle Marte

Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby and the Decay of Welfare Capitalism
Brad DeLong

A Few More Thoughts on the Ex-Im Bank
Jared Bernstein

Mapping international data
The FRED Blog

The Great Disinvestment
Paul Krugman

The return of ‘47 percent’ and the endless political class war

Paul Waldman

These Ages of Shoddy

Paul Krugman

Donors Give More When They Have a Sense of Belonging

Robert Shiller

Why I'm tired of hearing about 'that' civil rights movement

John Blake

Austrian Economists, 9/11 Truthers and Brain Worms
Noah Smith

The Tragic Success of Freedom Summer
Josh Zeitz

"I Thought I Could Swing It": The Strange Life and Presidency of Silent Cal
Anthony Bergen

Why printing more money could have stopped the Great Recession
Timothy B. Lee

The spontaneous combustion theory of inflation
Greg Ip