This & That Assorted

Some links worth having a look;

What Should a Billionaire Give – and What Should You?
A Speculator’s Guide on What’s Happening in Putin’s Russia
What We Learn When We Learn Economics
Amaranth and the limits of mathematical modelling
Capitalists We Don't Trust- Sebastian Mallaby
Bad Apples and Good Bets -David Warsh

Malatesta Estimator
Baker and Summers
John Quiggin and Hal Varian on Stern Report
Primitive Accumulation
A Student Writes...
Levitt vs. Levitt & Dubner
Obscure Economic Indicator: The Guns-to-Caviar Index
Does Prison Harden Criminals ?
The S&P 500 at Your Fingertips
Galbraith's Contribution
Additional thoughts on Iraq
China in Revolt
Leisure Inequality
Musicians' demands for copyright extension are off key
Dilemmas of Formal Economic Theory
Does the future really belong to China?
Why aren't there more investment bankers?
The Top Ten Stories You Missed in 2006
To Be An American...
Thinking about the human mind