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Articles

• The psychology of financial markets: Keynes, Minsky and emotional finance, Sheila Dow
• Mechanism Design: How to Implement Social Goals, Eric S. Maskin
• The ethics of efficiency, Irene van Staveren
• Learning From Schelling's 'Strategy Of Conflict', Roger B. Myerson
• Fiscal Stimulus: Is More Needed? Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Greg Hannsgen and Gennardo Zezza
• Is Per Capita Real GDP Stationary in Latin American Countries? Chang, Lee, Kang and Liu
• The Good Life and the Good Economy, Edmund S. Phelps
• The Behavioural Economics of Climate Change, Kjell Arne Brekke and Olof Johansson-Stenman
• The Great Credit Squeeze: How It Happened, How to Prevent Another, Brookings Institution
• The Political Economy of Financial Systems, Stephen Haber and Enrico Perotti
• What do Scientists Want: Money or Fame? Devrim Göktepe
• The Discrete Charm of the Washington Consensus, Jan Kregel
• On the Scientific Status of Economic Policy: A Tale of Alternative Paradigms, Giorgio Fagiolo

The Economics Profession

• Comment on "On Gender Balance in the Economics Profession", Deirdre McCloskey
• Bernanke's Bubble Laboratory, Wall Street Journal
• Acceptance and Rejection at the Journal of International Economics, Ivan Cherkashin
• Financial Bubbles, Recessions and Economic Reporting, American Prospect

Economics in the News

• Soros sees 'reflexivity' theory of economics as life's work, USA Today
• Economics: Which Way for Obama? New York Review of Books
• Where are the economists? Peter Pogany
• Meet the economists who know why we buy what we buy, Guardian

The Economy

• Fed and Bubbles: First, Heal Thyself?, Wall Street Journal
• Inflation and the lessons of the 1970s, Business Standard
• Double, oil and trouble, The Economist
• What makes this economic slump different? Wall Street Journal
• The Trouble in Housing Trickles Up, NYT
• African Economists Lower Expectations As Price Hikes Threaten Growth
• Long era of cheap food is over, BBC

Reviews

• The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles Morris and The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means by George Soros, NYT
• Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? by Jared Bernstein, reviewed in the NYT

Viewpoints

• Presidential Candidates Should Address Looming Budget Deficits, Isabel V. Sawhill
• Replace 'GDP': Toward a new Political Economy of Social Justice and Environmental Protection, John Stokes
• The Committed Intellectual - Reviving And Restoring the National Project, Yash Tandon
• American Complicity, Timothy Gatto
• Remember Malthus? He's back for good, Energy Bulletin
• A New Deal for Poor Farmers, Jeffrey D. Sachs
• The Dollar Hits an Oil Slick, Martin Feldstein
• How Does the Weak Dollar Affect Oil Prices?, A. F. Alhajji

Economists' Blogs

• Dean Baker
• Brad DeLong
• Paul Krugman
• Greg Mankiw
• Marginal Revolution
• Mark Thoma
• Dani Rodrik
• Naked Capitalism
• Vox
• 2UBH
• International Political Economy Zone
• Harry Clarke
• 80 more blogs

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