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3. Why Norway deported the Norwegian of the Year.
4. How flu spreads among schoolchildren.
6. Leonhardt on Cowen vs. Meyerson; I view inequality as a residual of processes in the real economy. Some common factors are causing both inequality and stagnation (e.g, lack of major broad-based innovations, problems with the financial sector, aging), and to some extent inequality and stagnation have different causes. As Scott Sumner says: "do not reason from a price change," I say: "do not reason from a distribution change." Changes in distribution are not autonomous causes of stagnation.