Assorted links

1. 100 Greatest Swedes?  So much for factor endowment theories…

2. What makes a football player smart?

3. Japanese cat islands.

4. Gavin Kelly on Average is Over and The Second Machine Age.

5. “Spike Away,” maybe more useful in Japan and India than Singapore, where it was the result of a two-day workshop at the National University.

6. Zimbabwe now has dollarized prices, and then some.

7. A fifteen-year-old in Delhi owns what is perhaps the world’s greatest pencil collection.