Notable: November 2016

• Low Definition in Higher Education By Lyell Asher, The American Scholar, NOVEMBER 16, 2016
• How Latin America Pays the Price of Protectionism By TAOS TURNER and PAUL KIERNAN, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 25, 2016
• China Issuing ‘Strict Controls’ on Overseas Investment By LINGLING WEI, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 25, 2016 [Government to announce new measures intended to curb capital flight]
• The Thin Gene By PAGAN KENNEDY, The New York Times, NOV. 25, 2016
• Two Children, One Rich, One Poor, Gasping for Air in Delhi’s Smog By ELLEN BARRY, The New York Times, NOV. 23, 2016
• 100 Notable Books of 2016 The New York Times, November 23, 2016
• India’s Cash-Canceling Experiment By Bruce Einhorn, BloombergBusinessweek, November 23, 2016
• Economists are prone to fads, and the latest is machine learning The Economist, November 26, 2016. [Big data have led to the latest craze in economic research.]
• How Indians triumphed in America, The Economist, November 26, 2016. [Review of The Other One Percent: Indians in America. By Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur and Nirvikar Singh]
• The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton. By Lawrence Lessig, The Washington Post, November 24, 2016
• Researchers have found a troubling new cause of death for middle-aged white Americans By Max Ehrenfreund, The Washington Post, November 23, 2016
• Alaska’s Novel Plan to Cut Health Premium Costs By SHAYNDI RAICE and
  ANNA WILDE MATHEWS, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 22, 2016 [Could this be a plus point for Medicaid?]
• TROUBLING STUDY SAYS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAN PREDICT WHO WILL BE CRIMINALS BASED ON FACIAL FEATURES By Sam Biddle, The Intercept, November 18, 2016 [What's to be done about findings such as this? Would it help to inform a person that their facial features suggest they are likely/unlikely to commit crime? If Big Data identifies interventions -- say a particular ethics course --  that are inversely correlated with  criminal behavior, should such interventions be subsidized? Should plastic surgery be subsidized (a) for procedures to "correct" the facial features associated with criminal behavior or (b) for procedures to adopt, as a gesture of solidarity, the facial features associated with criminal behavior?]
• RETHINKING HOW THE HOUSING CRISIS HAPPENED By Zach Church, MIT Sloan,  November 9, 2016
• Breathe. Exhale. Repeat: The Benefits of Controlled Breathing By Lesley Alderman, The New York Times, November 9, 2016
  
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