US Tertiary Education

Patent Generation at top US Universities

http://www.renewoureconomy.org/sites/all/themes/pnae/patent-pending.pdf

Governor Daniels Gets a New Job

Mitch Daniels has been appointed as the next President of Purdue University. Succeeding the fantastic current president France Cardova (a former Chief Scientist at NASA) is not going to be easy, but Daniels has done a decent job as the Governor of Indiana.

http://www.purdue.edu/president/p12/index.html

Global Housing Price Changes

A Report from Lloyds provides a fascinating perspective on the best and worst performing global housing markets.
Not surprisingly, a few emerging markets saw extraordinary housing price increases over the past decade.

http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/media/pdfs/LTSB/2012/1703_global.pdf

Interesting Items - June 25

Robert Samuelson on the Current Global Slowdown

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/robert-j-samuelson-the-sources-of-the-global-economic-stalemate/2012/06/24/gJQAvuFP0V_story.html

Excess Supply of Law School Graduates is Starting to Impact Job Placements

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304458604577486623469958142.html

Economist Anna Schwartz’s Obituary

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/business/anna-schwartz-economist-who-worked-with-friedman-dies-at-96.html

North American Agricultural Renaissance

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-triumph-of-the-family-farm/8998/

The Value of Higher Education

http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Documents/The%20Economics%20of%20Higher%20Education_REPORT%20CLEAN.pdf

Krugman on PBS

Watch Krugman's Solution to Fiscal Stimulus? It Involves Aliens on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.

Business Cliches – Forbes List

Quite a Funny List of Business Cliches – Must Read for Business School Students

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/06/19/89-business-cliches-that-will-get-any-mba-promoted-to-middle-management-and-make-them-totally-useless/print/

Fresh Empirical Evidence on Comparative Advantage

MIT economists Arnaud Costinot and Dave Donaldson find some empirical support for Ricardo’s Comparative Advantage theory:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/confirming-ricardo-0620.html

Gold Standard During the Great Depression

On France's Gold Accumulation During the Great Depression

A Wonderful Discussion Involving Economists Irwin, Calomiris and Hamilton:

Two Great Commencement Speeches

Michael Lewis at Princeton on the Role of Luck

David McCullough Jr at a High School Graduation Ceremony on Unwarranted Exaltation

Green Accounting

There is a growing push to place an economic value on services provided by nature – might turn out to be one of the more dramatic developments of the 21^st century

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-17/ugandan-swamp-helps-stiglitz-show-benefits-beyond-gdp.html

http://news.yahoo.com/accounting-natural-wealth-gains-world-traction-052906350--finance.html