Thursday assorted links

1. What if Canada can’t become a major tech cluster?  And what does the Canadian trade balance look like without oil?

2. Broken windows theory tests.

3. “Austerity evidently killed GDP, but not the labor market. That’s a very interesting hypothesis, but I’m wondering which textbook theory is consistent with it?”  That’s the UK, folks.

4. Does hiking cigarette taxes drive poor people to enroll in food stamps (pdf)?  And which colleges have the best food?

5. Not a surprise, but a clarification: the U.S. won’t give up what is in effect its IMF veto.

6. Olivier Blanchard is leaving the IMF for the Peterson Institute.  And Piketty will be joining LSE, it seems.

7. UberCopter, pretty cheap, considering…