TGI Friday – let’s see, what have economist bloggers and blogging economists prepared for us!

1. Interesting examples of perverse incentives from Mark Perry. Can you think of other examples?

2. How companies are replacing oil – from LA Times and Startribune. Again, examples from our readers would be appreciated.

3. Not exactly a blog post but an ingenious business idea. Shall South Caucasus offer its united forces for sale too?

4. What happens, when policymakers don’t know their Econ 101, from EclectEcon.

5. Pros and cons of austerity. Mostly basic stuff but nice to have it compiled in one post.

6. What determines bond yields – from the same blog.

7. The Economist Free Exchange blog talks about the knowledge burden.

8. Posts by Gary Becker and Richard Posner from their common blog discuss capitalism. Insightful.

9. Two interesting posts from Worthwhile Canadian Initiative – the first one about the main questions in monetary economics.

10. … and the second one, about the distributional consequences of monetary policy.

11. A primer in balance sheet monetary policy – from Miles Kimball.

12. And finally, several posts from my favorite blogger Noah Smith:

1. Economic theory that really works (with a question in the very end that our friend Zac will certainly like).

2. Fake GDP and whether there does exist one in reality.

3. Libertarians and public goods. I like the last sentence in this one J

4. Will carbon taxes work? No, I didn’t think so either.