A good article on T-Mobile

Read it here, there is already more news in antitrust than I thought we would see all semester!

Clarity on the merger

In case you have trouble following telecom mergers, this diagram should clarify everything. And here is the union argument in favor of the now-thwarted merger, a good quick case for it.

Unexpected news

The U.S. blocks the AT&T and T-Mobile merger, read about it here.

The Rodrik essay

Here is the link to the extra Rodrik essay, for the productivity section, which is not on all of your reading lists:

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/drodrik/Research%20papers/The%20Future%20of%20Economic%20Convergence%20rev2.pdf

It goes with the short Rodrik blog post already listed.