Notable: October 2017

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• Small farmers in Indian agriculture By Daniel Little, Understanding Society (blog), October 29, 2017
• Nudges Made British Life Better By Cass Sunstein, BloombergView, October 26, 2017
• Online schooling: Who is harmed and who is helped? By Susan M. Dynarski, Brookings: Evidence Speaks, Thursday, October 26, 2017
• THE MORNINGSTAR MIRAGE By Kirsten Grind, Tom McGinty and Sarah Krouse, The Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2017
• Doing Business in India: Myths and Realities By Matthew Lillehaugen and Milan Vaishnav, Ideas for India, October 25, 2017
• The Cookie Crumbles: A Retracted Study Points to a Larger Truth By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, OCT. 23, 2017
• One last time on who benefits from corporate tax cuts By Lawrence H. Summers, The Washington Post, October 22, 2017
• Single-payer would drastically change health care in America. Here’s how it works. By Kim Soffen, The Washington Post, Oct. 17, 2017
• GST Explainer: Value Added Tax 2.0 By Aprajit Mahajan and Shekhar Mittal, Ideas for India (blog), October 18, 2017
• GST Explainer: A legal scholar’s view By Arvind P. Datar, Ideas for India (blog), October 17, 2017
• GST Explainer: A public finance expert’s view By Kavita Rao, Ideas for India (blog), October 16, 2017
• GST Explainer: Introduction By Ashok Kotwal, Ideas for India (blog), October 16, 2017
• Taylor Rule Utility Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, updated on October 13, 2017
• The Fed Claims to Be Independent. That’s Mostly a Myth. By SARAH BINDER and MARK SPINDEL, The New York Times, OCT. 19, 2017
• A Stock Market Panic Like 1987 Could Happen Again By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, October 19, 2017
• When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy By SUSAN DOMINUS, The New York Times Magazine, OCT. 18, 2017
• Beyond “power pose”: Using replication failures and a better understanding of data collection and analysis to do better science By Andrew Gelman,
  Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (blog), October 18, 2017
• Why Big Cities Thrive, and Smaller Ones Are Being Left Behind By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, October 10, 2017
• Growth Without Industrialization? By Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate, October 10, 2017
• Promising ideas for future research on the employment effects of minimum wages By David Neumark, VoxEU, 09 October 2017
• Thaler Changed My Life (and Everybody Else's) By Cass Sunstein, BloombergView, October 9, 2017
• THE 2017 NOBEL: RICHARD THALER By Kevin Bryan, A Fine Theorem (blog), October 9, 2017
• Richard Thaler: The 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 9, 2017
• Richard Thaler, Nobel winner from Chicago, fought to get heretical economic theories published By Gregory Karp, The Chicago Tribune, April 30, 2012 [Reprinted on October 9, 2017]
• How We Think About the Deficit Is Mostly Wrong by Stephanie Kelton, The New York Times, October 5, 2017
• Interview with Ricardo Hausmann: Venezuela's Economy By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 6, 2017
• Foreign Direct Investment in the US: Size and Effects By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 5, 2017
• The Gherkin Story: For Explaining Exchange Rate Risk By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 4, 2017
• How the New Math of Gerrymandering Works By NATE COHN and QUOCTRUNG BUI, The New York Times, OCT. 3, 2017
• Some Economics of Immigration By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, October 3, 2017
• Why don't tax cuts boost growth? By Dietrich Vollrath, Growth Economics (blog), October 3, 2017
• Tax Cuts, Sold as Fuel for Growth, Widen Gap Between Rich and Poor By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, October 3, 2017