Assorted links

1. Nick Rowe on Japan and interest rates, and he asks whether Japan is already dead.

2. Parlor game, island, Japanese Chamber of Commerce, stir and mix.

3. Eichengreen essay on Robert Fogel (jstor).

4. The culture that is Vietnam: festival of killing inner insects, and TNR resurrects its “Plank Blog.”

5. Dan Drezner on Albert Hirschman.

6. Turkish Jugaad, and basketball in an arbitrage economy.

7. Disputes over the economic benefits of the human genome project, be careful not to measure inputs!