Notable: April 2017

• February’s Book Club Pick: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ by David Grann By Dave Eggers, The New York Times, April 28, 2017
  
• A progressive VAT By John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist (blog), April 26, 2017
• Some Myths About Interest on Reserves By Josh Hendrickson, The Everyday Economist (blog), April 25, 2017
• We Know What Causes Trade Deficits By Joseph E. Gagnon, Trade and Investment Policy Watch, Peterson Institute for International Economics, April 7, 2017
• Theory and evidence for the last two decades of tariff reductions By Lorenzo Caliendo, Robert Feenstra, John Romalis, Alan Taylor, VoxEU, 26 April 2017
• Minimum wages and the distribution of family incomes in the United States By Arindrajit Dube, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, April 26, 2017
• How Best to Tax Business By N. GREGORY MANKIW, The New York Times, APRIL 21, 2017
• The impact of immigration barriers on native workers: Evidence from the US exclusion of Mexican braceros By Michael Clemens, Ethan Lewis, Hannah Postel, VoxEU, 19 April 2017
• Ricardo and comparative advantage at 200 By Douglas Irwin, VoxEU, 19 April 2017
• Toward a New Economy: Introduction By Mark Levinson and Timothy Shenk, Dissent, Spring 2017
• “The Sense That the System Is Rigged Relates to Governments’ Failure to Address Inequality and Concentration” ProMarket (blog), April 15, 2017 [Interview of Anat Admati]
• A Twisted Tale of Rent Control in the Maximum City By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), April 17, 2017
• Supply-Side Economics, but for Liberals By NEIL IRWIN, The New York Times, APRIL 15, 2017
• Understanding inflation in India By Laurence Ball, Anusha Chari, Prachi Mishra, VoxEU, 14 April 2017
• Economists are arguing over how their profession messed up during the Great Recession. This is what happened. By Henry Farrell, The Washington Post, April 12, 2017
• How Behavioral Economics Can Produce Better Health Care By Dhruv Khullar, The New York Times, APRIL 13, 2017
• Why flying in America keeps getting more miserable, explained by Matthew Yglesias, Vox, April 12, 2017
• Austerity in the aftermath of the Great Recession By Christopher House, Christian Proebsting, Linda Tesar, VoxEU, 11 April 2017
• How big a problem is the zero lower bound on interest rates? By Ben Bernanke, April 12, 2017
• Keynesian Economics Is Hot Again By Noah Smith, BloombergView, April 10, 2017
• A Quick Theory of the Industrial Revolution (or, at least, an answer to 'Why Europe?') By Douglas L. Campbell, April 11, 2017
• Financial Crises and the Desirability of Macroprudential Policy By Ozge Akinci and Albert Queralto, Liberty Street Economics (blog), April 10, 2017
• Why India Is Ready for a Universal Basic Income By Shamika Ravi, Foreign Affairs, April 6, 2017
• The everyday economics we rarely hear about could have a hugely positive impact on society By Hamish McRae, The Independent, April 8, 2017
• On the Need for (At Least) Five Classes of Macro Models By Olivier Blanchard, Realtime Economic Issues Watch (blog), April 10, 2017
• Interview with Angus Deaton on Death Rates, Inequality, and More By Timothy Taylor, The Conversable Economist, April 8, 2017
• Principles for Financial Regulatory Reform By William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer, New York Fed, April 7, 2017
• Six Patterns Behind the US Productivity Slowdown By Timothy Taylor, The Conversable Economist, April 7, 2017
• Kenneth Arrow and the golden age of economic theory By Steven Durlauf, VoxEU, 8 April 2017
• Why an Open Market Won’t Repair American Health Care By JACOB S. HACKER, The New York Times Book Review, APRIL 4, 2017 [Review of AN AMERICAN SICKNESS: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back By Elisabeth Rosenthal]
• The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews By JASON DANA, The New York Times, APRIL 8, 2017
• The Professor and the Jihadi By ROBERT F. WORTH, The New York Times Magazine, APRIL 5, 2017 [When a terrorist made a death threat against Gilles Kepel, France’s most famous scholar of Islam, it deepened his embroilment in a national debate over Muslim assimilation and extremism.]
• The Economy May Be Stuck in a Near-Zero World By JUSTIN WOLFERS, The New York Times, APRIL 7, 2017
• Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s Most Eloquent Apostate By TUNKU VARADARAJAN, The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2017
• Offshore Money, Bane of Democracy By OLIVER BULLOUGH, The New York Times, APRIL 7, 2017
• Do Tax Cuts Really Spur Growth? It Depends on the Details. By NEIL IRWIN, The New York Times, APRIL 5, 2017
• Wisdom gleaned from data and behavioral economics By Dylan Walsh, MIT News, April 3, 2017
• How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons By NOAM SCHEIBER and graphics by JON HUANG, The New York Times, APRIL 2, 2017 [The company has undertaken an extraordinary experiment in behavioral science to subtly entice an independent work force to maximize its growth.]