Monday assorted links

1. Was David Ricardo the richest economist in history? (pdf)

2. More evidence on the growing importance of social skills in the workplace.

3. Demographics will work against state and local government employment.

4. What makes Denmark tick?  And are the Democrats in trouble?

5. There is no great curling stagnation but maybe there should be.

6. “Police “disappeared” more than 7,000 people at an off-the-books interrogation warehouse in Chicago, nearly twice as many detentions as previously disclosed, the Guardian can now reveal.” Link here, yikes throughout.

7. Review of Roger Lowenstein’s new book America’s Bank, on the origins of the Fed.