links for 2009-06-12

• Ed Hugh: Brad Setser Need Be Curious No Longer: China’s exports fell by a record in May
• Peter Groenwegen: Thomas Carlyle, ‘The Dismal Science’, and the Contemporary Political Economy of Slavery
• Rothstein: Preventing Markets from Self-Destruction: The Quality of Government Factor
• Bernanke (2002): Deflation: Making Sure "It" Doesn't Happen Here
• Elizabeth Warren et al.: Assessing Treasury's Strategy: Six Months of TARP
• Gene Steuerle: Why CBO Won't Credit Congress for Reducing Health Costs
• Acemoglu: Introduction to Modern Economic Growth
• Paul Kedrosky: What is This 'Lehman' Incident of Which You Speak?
• CBO (March 20, 2009): A Preliminary Analysis of the President’s Budget and an Update of CBO’s Budget and Economic Outlook
• Martin Wolf: Rising government bond rates prove policy works
• Jo Walton: The Net of a Million Lies: Vernor Vinge’s <em>A Fire Upon the Deep</em>
• Kathy Sierra: Creating Passionate Users
• Joey Devilla: Fast Food Apple Pies and Why Netbooks Suck — The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century
• Matthew Yglesias: How Bipartisan Do You Want?
• Fred L. Block
• UC Davis: Sociology : Fred Block
• George Stewart: The Year of the Oath: The Fight for Academic Freedom at the University of California
• Henry Farrell: What to do with Yoo
• Ernst Kantorowicz: The Fundamental Issue: Documents and Marginal Notes on the University of California Loyalty Oath
• Gene Sperling, Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury, Opening Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services