TODAY'S recommended economics writing:

The troubling dean-to-professor ratio (Businessweek)

Deadline looms for long-term unemployed (WSJ)

Taxes and cliffs (John Cochrane)

The process of technological diffusion over time and space (VoxEU)

Disaster economics (New Yorker)

Argentina shows the integrity of default (Mario Blejer)

Fed's Dudley signals a shift towards bank reform (Simon Johnson)

Skills don't pay the bills (NYT)