1. Six case studies of writers who changed their minds. On what basis were they picked to contribute? And when you like the writer but not the books.
2. Markets in everything: I want to be Brahms’s German Requiem.
3. Brad DeLong on Piketty.
4. Styrofoam essentialism.
5. The North Carolina experience with cutting unemployment benefits.
6. Leading economists endorse Christmas presents, sort of. And Times Higher Ed best books list, deep and broad.
7. What is the deal on the new banking union?
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