Worth reading

A few recent and varied pieces:

* Ronald Dworkin poses Three Questions for America at the NYRB

* Ben Waxman explains why students are forced to spend so much on textbooks

* Menzies Chinn discusses the US labor market and the incipient slowdown

* The FT's Martin Wolf says we should Share gains with globalisation’s losers (alternative version available via Economist's View, which also includes excerpts from the online debate)

* OECD Chief Economist Jean-Philippe Cotis provides an interim assessment (PDF) of the world economic outlook