Links

Probably won't get to blog these properly, but they deserve attention.

-- Sad that this is necessary, but Barry Eichengreen discusses why a return to the gold standard is probably impossible, and not at all desirable anyway.

-- "The network of global corporate control", a very interesting research paper.

-- "The Convulsions of Political Economy", an application of Marx to the current environment from an unlikely source: a Senior Economic Advisor at UBS.