Jacob Christensen

Paul Krugman on the Euro, nominal wages and Polish plumbers.

Back-to-back holidays in Denmark (today) and Sweden (tomorrow). Here are the published Constitution Day speeches from Danish political leaders:

• Liberals: Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Lars Løkke Rasmussen (pdf-files)
• Social Democrats: Helle Thorning-Schmidt
• Danish People’s Party (no speech published on the party’s homepage as of 1430 CEST)
• Socialist Party: Villy Søvndal
• Conservative People’s Party: Bendt Bendtsen (If you are really in the mood, the Conservatives have published speeches from nearly all of their MPs)
• Social Liberal Party: Margrethe Vestager (MS-Word document!)
• Red-Green Alliance: Per Clausen
• Ny Alliance: Naser Khader

Enjoy your reading. I’ll be going to a party tonight to celebrate Joakim Norberg’s defence of his Ph.D.-dissertation about Swedish foreign policy and ideology.

• Joakim Norberg: Ideologiska mål och utrikesdebatt
  The overall conclusion about what explains the content and importance of ideological goals in the foreign policy debates studied here is that explanations at the systemic level are inadequate…nstead, explanations like type of foreign policy issue, party
  (tags: sweden foreignpolicy research politicalscience)
• Salon.com News | What role did race play with white Democrats?
  As the primaries end, a round table of experts — Tom Schaller, Ruy Teixeira and Sean Wilentz — weighs the influence of white racism on the Clinton vs. Obama contest.
  (tags: elections politicalscience usa politics BarackObama hillaryclinton)

New York Times summarises the Democratic primaries.

HT: Andrew Gelman.