Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Links

Why does this cost less than a salad?
  • The New York Times has a story saying that competition from charters is forcing public schools to compete for student. Imagine that.
  • Super Economy compares the fortunes of Swedish-Americans with actual Swedes in Sweden. I think he is pretty dead-on in his conclusions.

1 comment:

Paradigm Shifter said...

Read Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma." It's a great accounting of the distortion present in the US food economy due to agricultural subsidies. Talk about a non-functioning subset of the economy! He even progresses from corn field to McDonald's parking lot.