- Venezuela Is Living a Hyperinflation Nightmare By Noah Smith, Bloomberg View, December 19, 2017
- Heretics welcome! Economics needs a new Reformation By Larry Elliott, The Guardian, December 17, 2017.
- Steve Keen, who has always been good at making the conventional wisdom about the weaknesses of academic economics sound contrarian, has organized a nice stunt: Recalling Martin Luther's protest in Wittenberg 500 years ago, Keen has nailed his "33 Theses" about the parlous state of current academic economics onto a door in the London School of Economics. His "33 Theses" are here: http://www.newweather.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/33-Theses-for-an-Economics-Reformation.pdf.
- Interview with Anne Case By DOUGLAS CLEMENT, The Region, December 12, 2017 [Princeton economist on the cost of AIDS in South Africa, “deaths of despair” in the U.S. and women in economics.]
- The toll on I-66 hit a high of $44 this morning By Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post, December 14, 2017
- Stronger Labor Unions Could Do a Lot of Good By Noah Smith, BloombergView, December 6, 2017
- The Elusive Benefits of Flexible Exchange Rates By Gita Gopinath, Project Syndicate, December 4, 2017
Saturday, December 09, 2017
Notable: December 2017
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