Around the Blogs, Vol. 47: Social Sciences, Broadly Conceived

1. An unconventional idea for reducing prison rape

2. How do sticky wages cause unemployment?

3. "This is an example of what I call the 'invisible double standard' -- the unspoken, unquestioned assumption on the part of most Americans that the standards other countries use to judge each others' conduct should not, or do not, apply to the United States. Of course, this double standard is only invisible to Americans."

4. The economics of book length