Notable: August 2017

• Partition: Borders of Blood By Steve Chao, Al Jazeera, August 17, 2017
  
• Gains from trade: evidence from nineteenth century Japan By Daniel M. Bernhofen and John C. Brown, Microeconomic Insights (blog), August 30, 2017
• The Fed's Foray Into Forex By Tim Sablik, Econ Focus, federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Second Quarter, 2017
• Workers Save More for Retirement When Employers Tell Them to, Study Says The Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2017
• The financial crisis, ten years on By Stephen Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz, VoxEU, 29 August 2017
• How Wall Street Gets Rich Off Savers By Noah Smith, BloombergView, August 24, 2017
• The long-term benefits of quality early childcare for disadvantaged mothers and their children By Jorge Luis García, James Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, and María Prados, VoxEU, 25 August 2017
• Learning from Thirty Years of Experience with Cap-and-Trade Systems By Robert Stavins, An Economic View of the Environment, August 25, 2017
• How Colleges Are Strangling Liberalism By Mark Lilla, The Chronicle of Higher Education, AUGUST 20, 2017
• What are economists for? By Christopher Snyder, LSE Business Review, August 18, 2017
• The Scotsmen Who Invented Modernity By Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest, August 17, 2017
• The Endowment Effect By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), August 24, 2017
• Reflections on Galbraith’s New Industrial State, 50 years later By Joshua Gans, Digitopoly (blog), August 22, 2017
• Bloomberg QuickTake: Universal Basic Income By Paula Dwyer, Bloomberg View, August 22, 2017
• Blockchain: New Frontiers By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), August 18, 2017
• Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world By Stephen Metcalf, The Guardian, August 18, 2017
• "Theory vs. Data" in statistics too By Noah Smith, Noahpinion (blog), August 17, 2017
• The 2008 Financial Crisis: How It All Began The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2017. [A video explaining how developments at an obscure French bank in August 2007 sowed the seeds of the 2008 financial crisis.]
• The Jobs Most Segregated by Gender and Race By Justin Fox, BloombergView, August 16, 2017
• Old Ideas About Foreign Trade Are Being Retired By Noah Smith, BloombergView (blog), August 15, 2017
• THE BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS PARADOX Stumbling and Mumbling (blog), August 15, 2017
• The global financial cycle: Closer to an anticlimax than a juggernaut By Andrew Rose, VoxEU, 14 August 2017
• What economists study: A guide for the curious By Christopher Snyder, VoxEU, 12 August 2017
• The whys of increasing inequality: A graphical portrait By Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg, The Washington Post, August 14, 2017
• Straw men in the debate on basic income versus targeting By Martin Ravallion, Ideas for India (blog), August 11, 2017
• Governance and public service delivery in India By Farzana Afridi and Nalini Gulati, Ideas for India (blog), August 7, 2017
• Trilemma redux: New evidence from emerging market economies By Maurice Obstfeld, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Mahvash S. Qureshi, VoxEU, 11 August 2017
• The transmission of global financial shocks to domestic financial and macro-economic conditions, as well as to capital flows, is magnified under fixed exchange rate regimes relative to more flexible regimes.
• Healthier Workers Are More Productive, Study Finds By Lauren Weber, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2017
• What Econ 101 Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 9, 2017
• Who Ultimately Pays for Corporate Taxes? The Answer May Color the Republican Overhaul By Richard Rubin, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2017
• Looking Back: The Financial Crisis Began 10 Years Ago This Week By Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, Money and Banking (blog), August 7, 2017
• Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI, The New York Times, AUG. 7, 2017 [The memo is available at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf]
• Six big ideas: Gary Becker’s concept of human capital The Economist, August 3, 2017