Assorted links
1. David Bowie’s favorite one hundred books.
2. Ten major events from the history of the repo markets.
3. Philip Delves Broughton, at The Wall Street Journal, reviews *Average is Over*. And there is a William Galston WSJ review here, though I would say Galston, despite his invocation of Swift, hasn’t studied Swift enough to get when someone actually is…moralizing. Insofar as Average is Over has a moral lesson (and most of the book really is positive or predictive or prescriptive at the individual level), it is that we are not doing — and for reasons of self-interest and self-deception not about to do — most of those things which would in fact make human lives much better.
4. If they added an Albanian character to HBO’s *Girls*.
5. Juan Linz has passed away. And here is Matt Yglesias on Linz.