Best day of the week – best links from Giorgi!

1. Sad news first – Anna Schwartz, famous for being Milton Friedman’s collaborator, passed away at the age of 96. RIP…

2. A somewhat original way of saving the Euro, from NY Times.

3. And an orthodox approach to the same problem, from Economics Help blog.

4. Not exactly economics (in fact, not economics at all!) but I’m sure you, as well as I, have long been interested in why supermarket fruits and vegetables look so well and taste, erm, not so well. Here’s the answer for tomatoes. I’m sure it can be generalized.

5. Earth has an economic center of gravity too! And it moves over time!

6. Economic explanations of why Americans are more religious than Europeans from Gary Becker and Richard Posner. However, none of those explanations work for Georgia – which is way more religious than the USA. Any ideas?

7. Nick Rowe has another insightful post on monetary policy.

8. Mobile phones are changing everything – even the world of retail trading.

9. Finally, a post from Noah Smith – what does science need to really be a science and does macro satisfy the criterion.