links for 2009-09-26

• Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found
• Christina D. Romer: Back from the Brink
• Something Real: A Culture Novel-Based Fan Film By Hieroglyphic Films
• Torrie Atkinson: Star Trek Re-Watch: “Mirror, Mirror”
• Nicholas Thompson: "Greenspan? Gipper? Gates?": Republicans can't bear to give Clinton credit for the economic boom. But they should
• Eric Alterman: The House That Irving Kristol Built
• Rob Stavins: Can Countries Cut Carbon Emissions Without Hurting Economic Growth?
• Free Exchange: What's college all about?
  There is no question that much of what counts as the educational part of college is digitisable and nearly endlessly duplicable. Texts and papers fall into this category, as do lectures and demonstrations. In the past, the economics of universities were based on provision of these things; books and experts were scarce, and so it made sense to gather students in one place, in proximity to those things, in order to learn from them. If this is all that underpins the modern institute of higher education, then it is only a matter of time until it vanishes. But it may be the case that aura is more important than pieces of information where colleges are concerned. It could be that the key value is in being in a room with an expert and other interested students, in participating in dorm-room bull sessions, in napping on a pile of texts in a musty old library, and in running naked across the quad at three in the morning. These things can't be digitised and infinitely replicated. If the primary
• Ezra Klein: Medicare Part 'E'
• Ken Rogoff: How Will World Leaders Fix the Financial Mess?
• Gillian Tett: The ghosts of AIG prosper
• Brad Setser: Bridging to Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth
• Tim Duy's Fed Watch: Rushing to the Exits?
• Kevin M. Warsh: The Fed’s Job Is Only Half Over
• Goolsbee defends Obama fiscal policies
• Barry Eichengreen: What Is the IMF's Mission?
• Maistre Chiquart: Du Fait de Cuisine
• Kate Nepveu: “Frodo and the Great War,” John Garth
• Isam Laroui: Musings of a Trader: More Macro Feuds
  The current economic crisis has followed Keynesian theory to a T and those economists who have either never learned Keynes (because their professors told them it was a discredited theory) or spent their careers ridiculing Keynes are having a difficult time, to say the least, accepting, let alone graciously accepting, that they were wrong.