Deflation Nation - Could falling prices send the U.S. into a Japanese-style recession? By Robert Shapiro: "...Now, mainstream economists like MIT's Paul Krugman and Stanford's Bradford DeLong..." Nooo!!!! Stanford? Berkeley! Berkeley!! BERKELEY!!!!! BERKELEY!!!!!!!! BERKELEY!!!!!!!!!!...

Peter Passell writes about his twelve favorite economics websites. From the Milken Review that he edits: paul krugman | www.wws.princeton.edu/~pkrugman/ | Unofficial site:www.pkarchive.org/ Everyone, it seems, either loves Paul Krugman, or loves to hate him. One reason is that he gets amazing exposure through his Op-Ed column in The New York Times. Another is that he writes better than any economist since Keynes. Yet a third is that he doesn’t suffer fools (or knaves) easily – which often makes his opinion pieces a gas to read. His own Web site contains a sampling of his work, including some striking analytic pieces. But his unofficial site, run by Krugman groupies, is a whole lot more complete, and a whole lot more fun. It includes a lot of material about Krugman as well as stuff by him. xavier sala-i-martin | www.columbia.edu/~xs23/home.html Some economists are smart. A few are funny. A very few, including Columbia University’s Xavier Sala-i-Martin are smart and funny. Who else, after all, would grace his home page with a picture of Miss Piggy in her pigs-in-space getup, and a pair of floating eyeballs that follow your cursor around the site? Check out the picture of his favorite supermodel. Or...