Links of the Week - 31 October 2014

A weekly collection of links from the Conscience Warrior Newsfeed


Dollar strength and inflation expectations
Sober Look

How the media has helped normalize GOP crazy
Paul Waldman

Greenberg’s Folly

Zachary Karabell

An Excess of Virtue?

Jonathan Wight

One paper by Nobel Prize winner Jean Tirole that every internet user should know

Matthew Yglesias

The Nobel prize goes to Jean Tirole

The Economist

Understand the research that just won Jean Tirole the economics Nobel Prize

Danielle Kurtzleben

Morning Must-Read: Annie Lowrey: Amazon Is Not a Monopoly

via Brad DeLong

Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics for actually showing us how the real world works

Matt O'Brien

Jean Tirole’s Nobel Prize Is Also a Win for Modern Microeconomic Theory

Justin Wolfers

Posner Rethinks Voter I.D. Laws

Jonathan Wight

Three ways of understanding the world

Noah Smith

Paul Ryan has a trick up his sleeve when it comes to taxes. It won’t work.

Matt O'Brien

An American billionaire wants to save the US economy with a betting market in New Zealand

Timothy B Lee

Wading Toward Home

Michael Lewis

When the Guy Making Your Sandwich Has a Noncompete Clause

Neil Irwin

Top economists say Piketty is wrong about wealth inequality. They misunderstood him.

Matt O'Brien

Sins of Omission

Fred Kaplan

You know there’s something wrong with the economy when sandwich-makers have non-compete clauses

Matt O'Brien

To say: “we fought the war on poverty and lost” is to reveal your contempt for facts.

Jared Bernstein

The Civility Whine

Paul Krugman

What’s the “normal” unemployment rate?

The FRED Blog

Big move for vol of vol

Sober Look

This is what the legacy of ‘white privilege’ looks like in Bill O’Reilly’s hometown

Emily Badger

Imperfect Competition, Legitimate at Last

David Warsh