Assorted links

1. Price transparency in earlier German medicine.

2. Labor productivity in Latin America; an important post, though I don't so much view IS and WC as causal in this context.

3. Ryan Avent on the stimulus debate.

4. Do chimps need a single tax on land?

5. Do World Cup losses predict negative stock returns?  (A fun topic, but I do wish to encourage a healthy skepticism about results such as these.)

6. The problem of missing heritability, and more here.