Links for 10-07-14

• Why public investment really is a free lunch - Larry Summers
• Why Weren’t Alarm Bells Ringing? - NYRB - Paul Krugman
• Has China’s Economy Become More “Standard”? - FRBSF
• The Return of Voodoo Economics - Jeffrey Frankel
• Is growth in east Africa for real? - vox
• A Gulf in Ocean Knowledge - NYTimes.com
• A hard look at corn economics - Marketplace.org
• The Relationship Between Economics and Geography - Rebecca Diamond
• Lost Consistency of European Policy Makers - Gloomy European Economist
• New theorem determines the age distribution of populations - EurekAlert
• What Can We Learn from Prior Periods of Low Volatility? - Liberty Street
• The Fed and the Secular Stagnation hypothesis - Jérémie Cohen-Setton
• Making Finance Safe - Cecchetti & Schoenholtz
• Labour market effects of migration in OECD countries - vox
• The overlooked history of African technology - MIT News
• Bond markets help lower inflation - vox