links for 2009-11-10

• Paul Krugman: Technology in daily life
• James Fallows: The other shoe drops at Caijing
  According to Ian Johnson in the WSJ just now, Hu Shuli, the founder and editor of Caijing magazine in China, has finally resigned, along with her deputy Wang Shuo. This is Hu, at the magazine's big annual conference last year in Beijing. (I didn't take this picture but was at the event. Update: WSJ story now has co-byline with Sky Canaves.) As Johnson explains in his story, tension at Caijing had been rising for some time. Also see previous links, including to Evan Osnos's profile of Hu in the New Yorker, here. The reason this news matters is that Caijing, a business/finance magazine that had in its 11 years become the main vehicle for independent reporting and criticism of all sorts, has been the very important exception to the rule about the strictures and limits on the Chinese domestic press. "Yes, the press is subject to tight controls, but at Caijing..." For instance, during the SARS outbreak in 2003, Caijing played an important role in questioning the government's story that
• Menzie Chinn: "Where's the Consumption Disaster?"
• TBogg: Another such victory and we are lost
  Marc Ambinder thinks that  NY23 was a “semi-victory” for conservatives...
• DeLong: Can Berkeley Support a Political Economy Major?
• On the Relationship Between Worker Productivity and Layoffs -- Seeking Alpha
• Paul Krugman: TIPS and inflation expectations
• Op-Ed Columnist - Paranoia Strikes Deep - NYTimes.com
• The Washington Monthly