More Assorted Links

1.  What economists and sociologists can learn from Akerlof and Kranton's Identity Economics; a review by Tom Slee.

2.  Everyone on TV reads the same newspaper.

3.  The Rise of the Order of Assassins.

4.  Clay Shirky: "It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity."