Notable: December 2016

• How a Pandemic Might Play Out Under Trump By Ed Yong, The Atlantic, December 20, 2016
  
• Redeeming Economics: The Achievement of Vernon Smith By SAMUEL GREGG, The Stream (blog), December 31, 2016
• The best work on political economy in 2016 By Daniel W. Drezner, The Washington Post, December 30, 2016
• THOMAS C. SCHELLING: A REMINISCENCE By Robert Jervis, War on the Rocks (blog), December 28, 2016
• THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT WEBSITE
• Improving How Job Markets Function: Active Labor Market Policies by Timothy Taylor, The Conversable Economist (blog), December 30, 2016
• Keynes Reborn by Koichi Hamada, Project Syndicate (blog), December 28, 2016
• Why time management is ruining our lives by Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, December 22, 2016
• It may have seemed like the world fell apart in 2016. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it didn’t. by Julia Belluz, Vox (blog), December 22, 2016
• Economists versus the Economy By Robert Skidelsky, Project Syndicate (blog), December 23, 2016
• Talking to children about untouchability By Diane Coffey and Amit Thorat, The Hindu, December 30, 2016
• Still frowning upon intermarriages By Diane Coffey and Amit Thorat, The Hindu, December 29, 2016
• How to Back Up Your Social Media Feeds By J. D. BIERSDORFER, The New York Times, DEC. 15, 2016
• Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory By Ajit Sinha, Institute for New Economic Thinking (blog), DEC 26, 2016
• India’s currency crisis is stalling small industries and sending workers home By Rama Lakshmi, The Washington Post, December 25, 2016
• Cornerstone: The Rise and Fall of a Health Care Experiment By REED ABELSON, The New York Times, DEC. 23, 2016
• Growth, Not Forced Equality, Saves the Poor By DEIRDRE N. McCLOSKEY, The New York Times, DEC. 23, 2016
• 11 Charts That Show Income Inequality Isn't Getting Better Anytime Soon by EDWIN RIOS AND DAVE GILSON, Mother Jones, DEC. 22, 2016
• PNC Christmas Price Index December 1, 2016 
• How’s the Economy? Just Look at How Much Celebrating ‘The 12 Days of Christmas’ Will Cost By Elizabeth Olson, The New York Times, December 23, 2016
• Cambridge economists The art and science of economics at Cambridge The Economist, December 24, 2016
• The Case for a Rules-Based Fed By John Taylor, The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2016
• A Computer Can’t Do the Fed’s Job By Neil Kashkari, The Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2016
• All’s well that spends well By David Throsby, The Times Literary Supplement, December 14, 2016
• Nobody, including the Fed, knows the lowest unemployment rate that’s consistent with stable inflation By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, December 19, 2016
• Nine New Findings About Inequality in the United States By JEREMY ASHKENAS, The New York Times, DEC. 16, 2016
• Trump’s outrageous lies come straight from big businesses’ playbook By Ari Rabin-Havt, The Washington Post, December 16, 2016
• When Economics Was Radical By Marshall Steinbaum and Bernard Weisberger, The Chronicle of Higher Education, DECEMBER 04, 2016
• Slavery and Capitalism Redux By Peter Dorman, Econonospeak (blog), December 14, 2016
• Shackles and Dollars By Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, DECEMBER 08, 2016
• Donald Trump Should Know: This Is What Climate Change Costs Us By MICHAEL GREENSTONE and CASS R. SUNSTEIN, The New York Times, DEC. 15, 2016
• Thomas C. Schelling, Master Theorist of Nuclear Strategy, Dies at 95 By WILLIAM GRIMES, The New York Times, DEC. 13, 2016
• Prize lecture: Bengt Holmström, Laureate in Economic Sciences 2016, December 11, 2016
• Prize lecture: Oliver Hart, Laureate in Economic Sciences 2016, December 11, 2016
• Economists Pretend They Don't Pick Winners and Losers by Noah Smith, BloombergView, December 9, 2016
• The Economy’s Hidden Problem: We’re Out of Big Ideas By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, December 6, 2016
• When Presidents Defy Economic Gravity, Gravity Usually Wins By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, December 7, 2016
• Private versus Public Health Care in India By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution, December 6, 2016
• U.S. life expectancy declines for the first time since 1993 By Lenny Bernstein, The Washington Post, December 8, 2016
• A Dilemma for Humanity: Stark Inequality or Total War By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, December 6, 2016
• Economic growth in the United States: A tale of two countries By Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman, Equitablog, December 6, 2016
• The U.S. Is a Low-Tax Nation By Justin Fox, BloombergView, December 5, 2016
• Monte Carlo Simulation Basics, III: Regression Model Estimators By Dave Giles,
  Econometrics Beat: Dave Giles' Blog, December 5, 2016
• Want to Rev Up the Economy? Don’t Worry About the Trade Deficit By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, December 11, 2016
• Josh Lerner: Interview By David Pryce, Econ Focus (blog), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Second Quarter, 2016
• Banking regulatory reform: The way forward By Xavier Vives, VoxEu, 6 December 2016
• When behavioural economics meets randomised control trials: Examples from Canadian public policy By Robert French, Philip Oreopoulos, VoxEu, 5 December 2016
• Indian Nationalism Goes to the Movies By Noah Feldman, BloombergView, December 2, 2016
• Budget versus project aid: A tradeoff between control and efficiency By Axel Dreher, Sarah Langlotz, Silvia Marchesi, VoxEu, 02 December 2016
• Employment subsidy schemes: Firm-level evidence from the 2012 Spanish labour market reform By Elisa Gamberoni, Katerina Gradeva, Sebastian Weber, VoxEu, December 3, 2016
• The interest rate effect on private saving: Alternative perspectives By Joshua Aizenman, Yin-Wong Cheung, Hiro Ito, VoxEu, December 3, 2016
• Minimum wage increases by US states fuelled earnings growth in low-wage jobs By Sandra Black, Jason Furman, Laura Giuliano, Wilson Powell, VoxEu, 02 December 2016
• The best films of 2016 Sight & Sound, December 2, 2016
• How to Back Up Your Social Media Feeds