Notable: July 2017

• From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia 1905-2016 By Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman, Working Paper, July 29, 2017
• Did This Game Theory Expert Plot the Perfect Murder? By Steve Volk, Philadelphia Magazine, July 29, 2017
• Is the world really better than ever? By Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, July 28, 2017
• Coase’s theory of the firm By The Economist, July 27, 2017
• Slaves of Isis: the long walk of the Yazidi women By Cathy Oten, The Guardian, July 25, 2017
• How does the US healthcare system compare with other countries? By Josh Holder, Paul Torpey and Feilding Cage, The Guardian, July 25, 2017
• Minimum Wage and Job Loss: One Alarming Seattle Study Is Not the Last Word By Arindrajit Dube, The New York Times, JULY 20, 2017
• A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy By George Monbiot, The Guardian, July 19, 2017
• A New History of the Right Has Become an Intellectual Flashpoint By Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, JULY 19, 2017 [On "Democracy in Chains" by Nancy MacLean.]
• HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ECONOMIST (IF, THAT IS, YOU WISH TO...) By J. Bradford DeLong, Grasping Reality with All Tentacles: bradford-delong.com (blog), July 15, 2017
• The Pricing Answer to Traffic Congestion By Timothy Taylor, The Conversable Economist, July 17, 2017
• Mirror, Mirror 2017: International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care The Commonwealth Fund, July 14, 2017
• IF BORDERS WERE OPEN: THE $78 TRILLION FREE LUNCH, The Economist, July 6, 2017
• How the middle class hoards wealth and opportunity for itself By Richard Reeves, The Guardian, July 15, 2017
• Making it count: Incentives, effort, and performance in higher education By Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton, and Melanie Lührmann, VoxEU, 15 July 2017
• So Many Critics of Economics Miss What It Gets Right By Noah Smith, BloombergView, July 14, 2017
• Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world By Nikil Saval, The Guardian, July 14, 2017
• How economics became a religion By John Rapley, The Guardian, July 11, 2017
• Formerly True Theories By Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal (blog), The New York Times, July 10, 2017
• Why doesn’t anybody know if Swachh Bharat Mission is succeeding? By Diane Coffey and Dean Spears, Ideas for India, July 10, 2017
• Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money By ROBERT H. FRANK, The New York Times, JULY 7, 2017
• Assessing the riskiness of capital inflows based on lender and currency By Glenn Hoggarth, Carsten Jung, and Dennis Reinhardt, VoxEU, 7 July 2017
• A review of labor market conditions The FRED Blog, July 6, 2017
• Institutions and culture co-evolve: Why the quest for the origin of prosperity is so elusive By Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier, VoxEU, 4 July 2017
• Masters of Money: Karl Marx, By Stephanie Flanders, BBC, January 30, 2016. [Stephanie Flanders examines one of the most revolutionary and controversial thinkers of all. Karl Marx's ideas left an indelible stamp on the lives of billions of people and the world we live in today. As the global financial crisis continues on its destructive path, some are starting to wonder if he was right.]
• Masters Of Money: Friedrich Hayek, By Stephanie Flanders, BBC, Aug 29, 2016. [Friedrich Hayek CH (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and ... penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.]
• Masters Of Money: John Maynard Keynes, By Stephanie Flanders, BBC, Mar 4, 2015. [John Maynard Keynes (John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946), one of the most influential modern Western economics economist, founded macroeconomics and Freud's psychoanalysis, created by law and love Einstein discovered the theory of relativity, together known as the three revolutions of the twentieth.]