Links of the Week - 19 September 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


The Beveridge Curve hysteresis and the long-term unemployed

Sober Look

The case against time zones: They're impractical & outdated

Matthew Yglesias

Finding old inflation data

The FRED Blog

What libertarians and conservatives get wrong about Ferguson

Paul Waldman

RBC models we can believe in?

Noah Smith

By all means, we should ‘politicize’ Ferguson

Paul Waldman

Deutsche Bank: Ignoring food price pressures could be a mistake

Sober Look

40 maps that explain the Roman Empire

Timothy B. Lee

Inequality Delusions

Paul Krugman

Fall of the House of Vanderbilt

Jonathan Wight

A conservative economist makes a devastating case against his own inflation fear-mongering

Dylan Matthews

M2 velocity and inflation

The FRED Blog

5 charts that prove it's time workers got a raise

Matthew Yglesias

Chart of the Day: Welfare Reform and the Great Recession

Kevin Drum

Mr. Piketty and the classics

Branko Milanovic