Assorted links
1. The political economy of Bitcoin.
3. Chris Rock won’t play colleges any more: “You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.”
5. How much do different quintiles benefit from government?
6. Twitter-driven economic history reading list. And more writers’ book picks from The Guardian. And NYT’s 100 Notable Books of 2014.
7. “Watch two Japanese women fry shrimp with a “cooking detonation” cannon.”