Assorted links

1. The soviets bad taste for architecture
   
   
2. The economic case for scrapping fossil-fuel subsidies (via Paul Barter)
   
   
3. The newly-created Journal of Demographic Economics (via Bernardo L Queiroz)
   
   
4. 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... ∞ = -1/12 shocked?  (via Tim Harford)
   
   
5. China has just overtaken America as the world's biggest trader in goods
   
   
6. Income ineq. and pop. health: An analysis of panel data for 21 developed countries,1975–2006 (via Carl Schmertmann)
   
   
7. GIF showing the growth of Walmart

[gif credit: Mashable]