Assorted links

1. Good charts and graphs about U.S. energy history.

2. Scott Sumner on Piketty on Kuznets, and Scott on the first chapter of Piketty.

3. Are we sexist about hurricanes? (speculative)  The original paper is here.

4. A very optimistic view on the unemployment rate.

5. How loyal was the Chinese army? (significant)

6. David Brooks on Adam Phillips.

7. Benjamin Hermalin responds to my earlier discussion of his paper.  The original page for the paper is here.