ASSORTED LINKS

• Eric Crampton has a summary of National’s policy changes around the youth minimum wage

• Paul Walker on the economic impact of the RWC

• Katharine Birbalsingh on education, freedom and the profit motive

• Four Nations, Four Lessons – Greg Mankiw discusses the four horsemen of the economic apocalypse

• World power swings back to America

• Occupy Wall Street and Washington’s history of financial bailouts: why we need more capitalism, not less

• Ten times as many people are demonstrating in Westminster for an EU referendum as in London City against banks

• The science of media bias

• The global warming movement is waning in the US

• How text messages could change global healthcare

ASSORTED LINKS

• Two ‘Non-Keynesian’ economists pick up the 2011 Nobel Prizes in economics for their research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.

• Siri, the iPhone virtual assistant vs a real assistant, is the new iPhone a replacement for the real deal?

• Sandwich envy, scientists think they have uncovered why we prefer to eat a sandwich made by someone else.

• Get a Job! A collection of economic experts and commentators provide their suggestions on what would solve the unemployment crisis in the US.

• Unravelling the Greek basket case, Oliver Marc Hartwich on the European debt crisis

• The rust belt comes back to life. Shale gas revolution could bring 200,000 jobs to Ohio

• Pankaj Ghemawat of Barcelona’s IESE Business School questions the extent to which the world really has globalised.

ASSORTED LINKS

– University of Canterbury economist Eric Crampton on government splashing on stadiums and events

– Noel Pearson calls for a new paradigm on closing the gap between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, based on equality of all 

– The minimum wage is hurting the worst off… in Britain too

– Australia’s pointless carbon experiment: the question, asks Anthony Watts, is how long will this last, and how long will the public tolerate these two kissy faced politicians?

– Complaints choirs around the world – seriously

– Slovakia fetches the Eurocrats a delicious slap across the chops, but the bailouts will go ahead regardless – Hannan

– George Will slams Elizabeth Warren’s claim that the government should take a chunk of entrepreneurs’ profits

– 20% of the world’s 6.9 billion people speak English to some extent

– Does the US economy need a little inflation?  A former chief economist at the
International Monetary Fund says yes, a former Treasury official under
President George W. Bush says no

– Private health insurance increases 400% in Sweden

– Anarchists for good government: interesting perspectives on the Wall Street protests

ASSORTED LINKS

• Chancellor George Osborne vows that the government will no longer be bound by unilateral targets that cut CO2 emissions in Britain faster and deeper than other countries in Europe.

• PayPal founder, Facebook investor and New Zealand enthusiast, Peter Thiel on the end of the future

• The solution to Warren Buffett’s and other prominent individuals’ assertions that they should be paying more tax… voluntary tax?

• Social media ad revenues to hit $10 billion in 2013

• Denmark’s attempt at the world’s first nationwide fat tax

• A new –ism for the ‘you have two cows challenge’?

• Detailed airport maps from Bing include information on parking garages, ticket counter location, terminals and gates etc

• Magician, and H.L. Mencken Research Fellow, Penn Jillette on Capitalism, Magic and Morality