Wednesday Links: Rebooted for the new semester!

Good luck to everyone on their first day of class!  Here are some links to get you through some of the more boring lectures:

• First off, NYU's own Professor Richard Epstein has a number of newly published articles:
• The Perils of Price Controls
• Collective Bargaining = Collective Suicide
• How Is Warren Buffett Like the Pope?
• Alex Epstein (no relation?) on the folly of using Standard Oil as a justification for antitrust laws
  MasterResource: Vindicating Capitalism: The Real History of the Standard Oil Company
• Robert Smith on Dept. of Education's decision to lower the standard to prove sexual harassment on college campuses
  RCP: On Sexual Harassment and Title IX
• Apparently, now you can't bring dogs into NYC bars
  Volokh: New York City Bars Dogs from Bars
• Russ Roberts on Keynesianism and the broken window fallacy
  Cafe Hayek: The Microeconomics of the Broken Window Fallacy

Thursday Reading: 2012, 10th Amendment, & more

• Steve Chapman argues that Republicans are not serious about the 10th Amendment
  Reason: Phony Federalism
• Eugene Volokh on the hyperbolic attacks on Republican holdouts in the debt ceiling debate
  Volokh Conspiracy:  Debt Limits, Union Strike Threats, and Talk of “Extortion” and “Hostage-Taking”
• Kay Hymowitz says the gender gap in pay is not going away any time soon, and that it's ok
  City Journal: Why the Gender Gap Won’t Go Away. Ever.
• Jay Cost thinks that Obama is unlikely to face a primary contender
  Weekly Standard: No Serious Democrat Will Challenge Obama
• Jim VanDehei and Mike Allen see problems ahead for Obama's re-election
  Politico: Obama's Big Drags
• Karl Rove says that the GOP came out of the debt ceiling debate well-positioned for 2012
  WSJ: The Debt-Ceiling Debate & 2012
• Quote of the day
  

  The State is the great fiction through which everyone endeavours to live at the expense of everyone else.
  

  - Frédéric Bastiat

Wednesday Reading: Teacher salaries, debt ceiling aftermath, & more

• Nick Gillespie challenges policy-wonk Matt Damon's claim that teachers are underpaid
  Reason: Is Matt Damon Right That Teachers Make a "Shitty" Salary?
  
• Paul Ryan wants to see the president's budget
  WSJ: Where's Your Budget, Mr. President?
• Becker and Posner on the aftermath of the debt ceiling compromise
  Becker: Immediate and Medium Term Debt and Deficit Problems
  Posner: The Depression, the Deficit Debacle, and the Debt-Ceiling Crisis
• Becker & Posner again on those stubborn unemployment numbers
  Becker: The Abysmal Recovery in Employment
  Posner: What to Do about Unemployment in the Short Term?
• Ilya Somin makes a case for divided government
  Volokh Conspiracy: The Debt Deal & Divided Government

Tuesday Reading

• Richard Epstein calls on the government to cut back on tax expenditures
  Defining Ideas: The Tax Expenditures Muddle
  

  Tax expenditures—such as ethanol subsidies—allow the government to spend money in disguise. There are trillions of dollars of such tax expenditures which are waiting to be canceled out—enough, in fact, to ease our deficit woes. 

• NY Magazine profiles rivals Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman
  NY Mag: Running for Grown-Up

Monday Reading: Apocalypse averted(?) & more

• Tyler Cowen & Brad Delong discuss the effect of the debt ceiling debacle on the balance of power in Washington
  Marginal Revolution: Has there been a shift in the political balance of power?
  Grasping Reality: Are We Shifting Toward a Parliamentary System?
• George Condon says the debt debate hurt the president's 2012 prospects
  National Journal: Obama Hurt By Debt Debate
  
  
• For next time: Megan MaCardle has some charts that anyone thinking about the debt ceiling should consider
  The Atlantic: A Few More Charts That Should Accompany All Debt Ceiling Discussions
• In other news: Jonathan Adler on overfishing
  Volokh Conspiracy: Learning How to Fish
• Robert Barnes on two potential candidates for the Supreme Court's next affirmative action case
  WaPo: College Affirmative Action Back On Supreme Court's Horizon