Sunday Links

A few things I've found interesting lately, but don't have time to properly blog:

-- Trying to understand the crisis, with Ed Glaeser, Daron Acemoglu, and Ragu Rajan.

-- Turkey's audacious "post modern" monetary policy.

-- China's growing problems. (ht: Drezner)

-- IMF: 2011 "pivotal year" for global cooperation.

-- Eichengreen: will "exorbitant privilege" continue?

-- Bhagwati: we need to think more carefully about corruption.

What I've Been Reading...

I wanted to pass along a couple of interesting works I've been reading over break as some of you may have extra free time over the holidays to check out some new stuff.

Nineteenth Street NW by Rex Ghosh - This is the first novel by international economist Rex Ghosh who has taught at Georgetown and Princeton and worked for the IMF as the Chief of Policy Review and Research. The book is a financial thriller about terror in the global financial markets. I've been hooked line since I started it this morning. I highly recommend it.

The recently released Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR) by the US State Department. They have some really interesting sections on 21st century statecraft, economic sanctions, terrorist financing and financial terrorism.

Interesting piece by Carolyn Johnson in the Boston Globe on new research about group IQ and what makes one team of people smarter than another.

Imperial By Design by John Mearsheimer in the National Interest.

Companies granted licenses and exemptions to sanctions legislation by OFAC and allowed to do business within Iran, North Korea, Cuba and others.

I just finished Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker which for some reason had never read.

Also, I can't wait til this comes out on March 8: Homefront.

Midweek Link Dump

I've been trying to stay away from links posts, just because. But I've got full tabs and not enough time to blog about most of this stuff, so here you are.

-- A Cato symposium on James Scott (famous for Seeing Like a State) that includes, erm, James Scott. Respondents include Brad DeLong, Don Boudreaux, and Timothy Lee.

-- Paul Krugman and Robin Wells on the slump and the way out. Also Howard Kurtz on Krugman.

-- An argument that China will not revalue the yuan under almost any circumstances. I'm not entirely convinced, but some useful stuff in there.

-- The "most underappreciated general in U.S. history" was an ancestor of mine, and won a decisive battle during the Revolutionary War about 15 miles from where I now sit, in Hillsborough, NC.

-- A classic from DeLong on understanding Marx.

-- A classic from Bowie and the Arcade Fire, "Wake Up". Good morning:

Wednesday Links

How Iran evades trade sanctions

Stuart Levey's War

Emirates orders more super-jumbos (ht: Emmanuel)

New Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album full free preview

Blackwater is up for sale

Michael Mandelbaum reviews three new books: "Questioning the Wisdom of American Restraint"

James Surowiecki on Regulation