Assorted links

1. The political economy of Bitcoin.

2. Pizza Hut reads your mind.

3. Chris Rock won’t play colleges any more: “You can’t even be offensive on your way to being inoffensive.”

4. The economics of Seinfeld.

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.”

8. Cochrane covers Deirdre McCloskey on Piketty.

9. Profile of Reihan Salam.