Around the Traps 12/4/13 Maggie Thatcher Edition

It is Friday yet again down under and I have a special  Maggie Thatcher section.

I would appreciate if anyone has seen anymore pieces on Maggie Thatcher ,sympathetic ones in particular


Aussie,Aussie,Aussie,Oy,Oy,Oy

• Guy looks at carbon-tax-repeal-rhetoric-and-reality
• Matt Cowgill writes on on-tax-expenditures/ and then looks at how-would-we-know-if-the-labour-market-was-flexible
• Don Arthur asks does-radical-welfare-reform-require-cultural-change?
• Mumble on time_to_get_boring,, how_labor_can_win , greens_and_the_labor_vote andvalues_schmalues
• Possum on megapoll-full-breakdowns
• Grogs' Gamut on drum-piece-socio-economic-advantage
• Ricardian Ambivalence talks about-that-rba-easing-bias and very latemarch-jobs-report-little-changed
• Gordon on why-the-alp-should-return-to-the-hawke-and-keating-period-of-electoral-governance
• Sinclair Davidson asks how-is-that-stimulus-working. err fiscal policy is contractionary Sinclair. wow
• John Quiggin is exasperated about people being unable to be counting-to-three
• The Kouk on some-facts-on-the-rba-dividend-molehill or why does Stutch have a job?
• Very Very late but Harry Clarke on high-speed-rail-on-australias-east-coast

US

• Jim Hamilton on is_the_recovery_dying?
• Steve Roth on saving doesn't equal saving resources and then follows up and up again
• Calculated Risk on existing-home-inventory
• Canada actually but Frances Woolley says were-free-up-here-too-eh

General

• Noah Smith ,who we learn has noah opinion  (getit),wonders about a-world-without-macroeconomists , two-versions-of-goodharts-law and solar-is-libertarian-nuclear-is-statist
• Kruggers says we-get-results-japan-edition it just took them 15 years to do it!, doing-the-math ,deficit-derangement-syndrome
• Pro-growth liberal looks at factor-price-equalization-outsourcing
• Ricardian Ambivalence on this-time-is-different-boj-edition
• Lord Keynes on origin-of-money-and-coins,herbert-hoover-rejected-keynesianism and  that-liquidationism-passage-in-hoovers-memiors
• Simon Wren-Lewis on nasty-politics-in-hard-times and myths-and-realities-of-1970s
• David Glasner and hawtrey-and-the-treasury-view ( a must read if you are interested in economic history or monetary economics)
• Via Mark Thoma did-the-fed-cause-the-housing-bubble? and another  is-the-real-interest-rate-too-high-or-too-low  (you need to read Kruggers
• Scientific American shows new-method-proves-climate-change-is-real
• Menzies Chin on some_new_estimates_on_Japanese_trade_elasticties
• Sandwichman on of-property-and-mercantilist-fallacy

Europe

• Mark Thoma on the-commission-on-portugal-is-this-for-real and blind-to-the-obvious-in-europe
• Kruggers on the-ecb-omt-and-moral-hazard
• Philip Lane on reliance-on-austerity-is-counterproductive-says-former-imf-mission-chief
• Very later but Simon Wren-Lewis on the-ecb-as-lender-of-last-resort-to-governments

Margaret Thatcher

• Kruggers and again
• voxeu
• another voxeu
• john quiggin
• David Glasner
• harry clarke
• larvatusprodeo
• Lord Keynes and more
• mumble sort of
• Duncum Weldon on 1981-and-the-364-redux
• Simon Wren-Lewis  (Best one)
• Dan Crawford
• VERY VERY late but Don Arthur
• and Paul Frijters

Andrew Gelman(Statistics actually)

• scatterplot-charades
• the-supreme-court-meets-the-fallacy-of-the-one-sided-bet
• continuing-conflict-over-conflict-statistics
• Good stats Bad stats looks at whether AP exams measure school performance

Wonk

• rajiv-sethi-haircuts-on-intrade ( via Mark thoma , who else!!)
• Dan Crawford    Mike Kimel on the-fed-primary-dealers-and-the-ineffectiveness-of-monetary-policy
• Mark Thoma on solow-has-financialization-gone-too-far
• Econbrowser guest contribution on currency_wars_v _currency_spillovers
• late but David Glasner  asks -gold-bubble-is-bursting-whos-to-blame?

Voxwonk

• banking-union-eurozone
• budget-balance-structural-unemployment-and-fiscal-adjustments-spanish-case
• financial-crises-questions-and-lessons
• Is-more-finance-better-disentangling-intermediation-and-size-effects-financial-systems
• measuring-potential-output-eye-financial-cycle
• social-multiplier-versus-social-norms-what-matters-most-outcomes
• measuring-potential-output-eye-financial-cycle
• asian-noodle-bowl-when-preferences-are-underused
• measuring-clarity-central-bank-communication
• distorted-beliefs-and-financial-sector
• federal-reserve-breeding-next-financial-crisis