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The top of today’s reading list discusses the loss of value for a college education …….. and the last article shows the correlation between higher levels of corruption and lower country GDPs.
- College Value Alert: Many “G.E.D. Jobs” Pay More (Seth Mason, Ecominoes)
- The overselling of behavioral economics (Jill Priluck, Reuters)
- What Walmart Could Learn from Henry Ford (Robert Reich) Robert Reich has contributed to Global Economic Intersection.
- Bitcoin vs. South Seas Stock (Mebane Faber Research)
- 24,000-Year-Old Body Shows Kinship to Europeans and American Indians (Nicholas Wade, The New York Times) See GEI News stories about ancient Americans and conections to Europe.
- Do Your Clients Need an Exit Strategy? (Samantha Allen, Financial Planning)
- The Silly Season is Here (5 Min. Forecast)
- The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne (Rebecca Schuman, Slate) Hat tip to Roger Erickson. See GEI News article about the value of MOOC in emerging economy countries. Perception of value is greatly dependent on circumstances.
- Krugman Goes Splat (Richard Heinberg, Post Carbon Institute) Hat tip to Rob Carter.
- Growing Out of Corruption (Jie Bai, Seema Jayachandran, Edmund Malesky and Benjamin Olken, VoxEU) Hat tip to Naked Capitalism.