Notable: December 2018

• The deep roots of development - Part 1  By Dietrich Vollrath (growthecon.com), December 31, 2018
•  The best work on political economy in 2018  By Daniel Drezner, The Washington Post, December 31, 2018
• Why the World Needs to Rethink Retirement  By Katie Robertson, The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2018
• New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out By Alexandra Alter, The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2018
• Twitter thread on Trump's corporate tax cut By Jared Bernstein, December 28, 2018
• Bad Faith, Pathos and G.O.P. Economics By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 27, 2018
• ‘This is our reality now.’ The New York Times, December 27, 2018
• Twitter Thread By Paul Krugman, December 26, 2018
• The Case for a Mixed Economy By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 22, 2018
• Did Economist James M. Buchanan Support "Massive Resistance" to School Desegregation? By Art Carden, Forbes, December 21, 2018
• Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expanding Them? By Seema Jayachandran, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2018
• Japan Finally Concedes Its Crazy Low Prices Can’t Be Beat By Megumi Fujikawa, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 21, 2018
• What You Can Learn From One of Warren Buffett’s Smartest Investors By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 21, 2018
• Did This Health Care Policy Do Harm? By Rishi K. Wadhera, Karen E. Joynt Maddox and Robert W. Yeh, The New York Times, December 21, 2018
• Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2018
• Hard-Money Men, Suddenly Going Soft By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 20, 2018
• The Fed’s Risky Plan to Boost Unemployment By Narayana Kocherlakota, BloombergOpinion, December 19, 2018
• Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise, Podcast interview of Kahneman by Tyler Cowen, December 19, 2018
• Remaking Economics: Series of Articles: 
• The re-education of Economics 101 By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 15, 2018
• The dismal cost of economics’ lack of racial diversity By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 16, 2018
• The reinvention of economics after the crash By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 18, 2018
• How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments By Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2018
• The Hutchins Center Explains: Federal budget basics By Anna Malinovskaya and Louise Sheiner, Up Front (blog), Brookings,December 13, 2018
• Out of Power? Political Capture of the Indian Electricity Sector -- Guest post by Meera Mahadevan  Development Impact, December 12, 2018
• Don’t Fall for Facebook’s ‘China Argument’ By Tim Wu, The New York Times, December 10, 2018
• America’s global dominance in technology requires fierce competition at home, not the coddling of monopolies.

Notable: November 2018

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• Failed tax-cut experiment in Kansas should guide national leaders BY HEATHER BOUSHEY, The Hill, 11/29/18
• Consumer Beware: With Less Trade Comes Less Choice By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 28, 2018
• The Monopolization of America By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, Nov. 25, 2018
• 100 Notable Books of 2018, by the editors of The New York Times Book Review, November 19, 2018, 
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; The World, Built by China By DEREK WATKINS, K.K. REBECCA LAI and KEITH BRADSHER, The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; How China Is Rewriting Its Own Script By AMY QIN and AUDREY CARLSEN, The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2018
• China Rules, How China became a superpower: How China Took Over Your TV By QUOCTRUNG BUI and SUI-LEE WEE, The New York Times, June 1, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; How China Made Its Own Internet By RAYMOND ZHONG, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; The American Dream Is Alive. In China. By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ and QUOCTRUNG BUI, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; Part 1; The Land That Failed to Fail By PHILIP P. PAN, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2018
• Economic Liberty Turns Vice Into Virtue By Stephen Miller, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 14, 2018 [Recalling Bernard Mandeville]
• The Tax Cut and the Balance of Payments (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 14, 2018
• What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? By Gary Greenberg, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 7, 2018. [New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.]
• Recommended Reading on Economic Growth By Patrick Collison, November 2018
• The Perversion of Fiscal Policy (Slightly Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 2, 2018
• Why the FTC Should Focus on Labor Monopsony By Eric Posner, Pro Market (blog), November 5, 2018
• Why it can be rational to vote By Andrew Gelman, The Washington Post, November 4, 2018
• What 52,000 Percent Inflation Can Do to a Country By Brook Larmer, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 1, 2018
• The path to economic development is growing more treacherous, again The Economist, November 1, 2018

Notable: October 2018

• How California has become a national battleground for rent control as money flows in from landlords By LIAM DILLON, The Los Angeles Times, OCT 31, 2018
• Dueling Economists: Rival Analyses of Harvard’s Admissions Process Emerge at Trial By Eric Hoover, The Chronicle of Higher Education, OCTOBER 30, 2018
• Confused by Nutrition Research? Sloppy Science May Be to Blame By Jane E. Brody, The New York Times, Oct. 29, 2018
• Best Way to Fight Climate Change? Put an Honest Price on Carbon, The New York Times, October 29, 2018
• Are the Danes Melancholy? Are the Swedes Sad? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 27, 2018
• They Said Seattle’s Higher Base Pay Would Hurt Workers. Why Did They Flip? By Noam Scheiber, The New York Times, October 22, 2018
• Op-Ed: The economics Nobel went to a guy who enabled climate change denial and delay  By Eugene Linden, Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2018
• ‘Don’t Get Too Excited’ About Medicare for All By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Shefali Luthra, The New York Times, October 19, 2018
• What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control? By Rebecca Diamond, Brookings (blog), October 18, 2018
• Why the Developing World Started Gaining on the West by Noah Smith, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 18, 2018 
• Convergence, Big Time by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 17, 2018
• California Tenants Take Rent Control Fight to the Ballot Box By Conor Dougherty, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2018
• Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? By David Gal, The New York Times, Oct. 6, 2018
• Surprising Truths About Trade Deficits By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, October 5, 2018
• Status goods change over time By Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 5, 2018.
• Can my brain cure my back pain? By Michael Mosley, Horizon, BBC, 4 October 2018
• Can ‘Nudges’ Make Students Study More? Maybe Someday By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, October 3, 2018

Notable: September 2018

• The Economic Future Isn’t What It Used to Be (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 30, 2018
• More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up By Anahad O’Connor, The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2018
• Dowries a major contributor to India's gender imbalance, researchers find By Rebecca Ratcliffe, The Guardian, 28 Sep 2018

• Political party vying in Quebec election promises to kick out immigrants who fail ‘values test’ By Amanda Coletta, The Washington Post, September 28, 2018
• How do you solve catastrophic hyperinflation? By Pablo Uchoa, BBC World Service, September 22, 2018
• Sweden: Lessons for America? (Video)  By Johan Norberg, Free to Choose Network, September 21, 2018
• A top Cornell food researcher has had 13 studies retracted. That’s a lot., By Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz, Vox, Sep 19, 2018
• Financial Times videos marking the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Great Recession:
• Financial crisis explained: how did it happen?
• Financial crisis explained: who benefited from the crisis?
• Financial crisis explained: what is the subprime of our decade?
• Financial crisis explained: the most important lessons learned
• The Human Promise of the AI Revolution By Kai-Fu Lee, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2018
• Deficit hawks are dead, and few in Washington can muster any outrage By Paul Kane, The Washington Post, September 15, 2018
• Walter Mischel, 88, Psychologist Famed for Marshmallow Test, Dies By Benedict Carey, The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2018
• Walter Mischel, psychologist who created ‘marshmallow test,’ dies at 88 By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, September 14, 2018
• Liberalism: The Economist at 175, The Economist, September 13, 2018
• The Economist at 175 A manifesto for renewing liberalism, The Economist, September 13, 2018
• The rise and fall of an alchemical Scottish economist, The Economist, September 13, 2018
• Lehman ten years on: more has changed than meets the eye, The Economist, September 6, 2018
• The world has not learned the lessons of the financial crisis, The Economist, September 6, 2018
• America’s recovery breeds complacency about macroeconomic risks, The Economist, September 6, 2018
• Unions in the 21st century: A potent weapon against inequality By Jared Bernstein and
  Dean Baker, The Washington Post, September 3, 2018
• Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration By Nelson D. Schwartz and Steve Lohr, The New York Times, Sept. 2, 2018

Notable: August 2018

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• Central bankers grapple with the changing nature of competition, The Economist, August 30, 2018
• Rawls rules: Three post-war liberals strove to establish the meaning of freedom, The Economist, August 30, 2018
• John Law: the 18th-century Scot who became richer than the king of France BY LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT, New Statesman, August 29, 2018
• The remarkable story of how John Law transformed the French economy after establishing a national bank.
• Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It By Jesse Eisinger, The New York Times, August 24, 2018
• Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, August 24, 2018
• Governments need better ways to manage migration The Economist, August 23, 2018
• Hayek, Popper and Schumpeter formulated a response to tyranny The Economist, August 23, 2018
• What a rising current-account surplus means for the euro area The Economist, August 23, 2018
• Greece’s Bailouts End, but Its Prospects Still Look Grim By Yannis Palaiologos, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 19, 2018
• Greece’s Bailout Is Ending. The Pain Is Far From Over. By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, August 19, 2018
• Was John Maynard Keynes a liberal? The Economist, August 18, 2018
• Productivity and wages: What’s the connection?  By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, August 14, 2018
• How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, August 7, 2018
• Notes on a Butter Republic By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 5, 2018
• Apple’s $1 Trillion Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies By Matt Phillips, The New York Times, Aug. 2, 2018

Notable: July 2018

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• How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women By Brent Staples, The New York Times, July 28, 2018
• Learning the Right Lessons From the Financial Crisis by N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, July 27, 2018.
• How Consumers Can Resist Companies’ Market Power By Austan Goolsbee, The New York Times, July 20, 2018
• The Trump administration’s new poverty report builds a phony rationale to punish the poor by By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, July 16, 2018
• Psychology Itself Is Under Scrutiny By Benedict Carey, The New York Times, July 16, 2018
• Many famous studies of human behavior cannot be reproduced. Even so, they revealed aspects of our inner lives that feel true.
• Has Greece finally escaped the grip of catastrophe? By Helena Smith, The Guardian, July 15, 2018
• 7 Fast-Food Chains to End ‘No Poach’ Deals That Lock Down Low-Wage Workers By Rachel Abrams, The New York Times, July 12, 2018
• Trump Should Just Give People Money By Annie Lowrey, The New York Times, July 7, 2018
• High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too By Noam Scheiber, The New York Times, July 7, 2018
• Fresh Proof That Strong Unions Help Reduce Income Inequality By Susan Dynarsky, The New York Times, July 6, 2018
• Understanding the importance of monopsony power in the U.S. labor market By Kate Bahn, Value Added (blog), July 5, 2018
• The new Fama puzzle By Matthieu Bussière, Menzie Chinn, Laurent Ferrara, and Jonas Heipertz, VoxEU, 05 July 2018
• Fiscal Sustainability: A Primer by Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, Money and Banking (blog), July 2, 2018

Notable: June 2018

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• G.M. Says New Wave of Trump Tariffs Could Force U.S. Job Cuts By Tiffany Hsu, The New York Times, June 29, 2018
• What’s the Yield Curve? ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention By Matt Phillips, The New York Times, June 25, 2018
• "Typically, when an economy seems in good health, the rate on the longer-term bonds will be higher than short-term ones. The extra interest is to compensate, in part, for the risk that strong economic growth could set off a broad rise in prices, known as inflation. Lately, though, long-term bond yields have been stubbornly slow to rise — which suggests traders are concerned about long-term growth — even as the economy shows plenty of vitality.
  
  At the same time, the Federal Reserve has been raising short-term rates, so the yield curve has been “flattening.” In other words, the gap between short-term interest rates and long-term rates is shrinking."
• Sudden Stops: A Primer on Balance-of-Payments Crises By Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz,  June 25, 2018
• Short of Workers, Fast-Food Restaurants Turn to Robots By Julie Jargon and Eric Morath, The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2018
• Inequalities in household wealth across OECD countries: Evidence from the OECD Wealth Distribution Database by Carlotta Balestra and Richard Tonkin, OECD Statistics Working Papers, June 2018
• Twitter post, @OECD, June 20, 2018
• Thinking About a Trade War (Very Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 17, 2018
• Ten years on, how countries that crashed are faring By Phillip Inman, The Observer, June 16, 2018
• Tax Cuts and Leprechauns (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 15, 2018
• What to Do When the Labor Market Stops Working for Workers By Alan S. Blinder, The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2018
• How trend-riding Trump is taking credit for the economy he inherited By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, June 11, 2018
• E-Commerce Might Help Solve the Mystery of Low Inflation By Patricia Cohen and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, June 11, 2018
• A Trade War Primer By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 3, 2018
• "It seems to me that this might be a good time to write down a brief, non-scholarly primer on how the trading system – and U.S. trade policy within that system – work."

Notable: May 2018

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• India, Buried in Sugar, Tries to Dig Out By Vibhuti Agarwal, The Wall Street Journal, May 29, 2018
• My attempt to cut through the fog of our fiscal debate By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, May 29, 2018.
• Review: A New Film Investigates the Time America Banned an Entire Race By Mike Hale, The New York Times, May 28, 2018
• "[T]he documentary is centered on the 1882 act of the title, the first American law to restrict the immigration of a particular ethnic group and ban its members from citizenship. ...
  
  [The film] provides a well-documented but not well-known alternate history — a corrective to the national myth of the melting pot.
  
  The filmmakers and their cast of mostly Asian-American historians frame the Exclusion Act as part of a long national narrative of racism, xenophobia, predatory capitalism and political calculation."
• It Saves Lives. It Can Save Money. So Why Aren’t We Spending More on Public Health? By Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frakt, The New York Times, May 28, 2018
• Income inequality is changing how we think, live, and die By Sean Illing, Vox, May 24, 2018
• A radical proposal to fight poverty in the developing world: tax the rich more than the poor By Charles Kenny and Justin Sandefur, Vox, May 24, 2018
• Freeing Econ 101: Beyond the Grasp of the Invisible Hand  By Greg Rosalsky, Behavioral Scientist, May 14, 2018
• Who was Karl Marx?  by DW Documentary, May 5, 2018

Notable: April 2018

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• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac By Joe Light, Bloomberg QuickTake, April 27, 2018
• How the Loss of Union Power Has Hurt American Manufacturing By LOUIS UCHITELLE, The New York Times, APRIL 20, 2018
• Economists still lack a proper understanding of business cycles, The Economist, April 19, 2018
• Hong Kong defends its dollar peg in both directions, The Economist, April 19, 2018
• Parag Pathak, Clark Medalist 2018, American Economic Association Honors and Awards Committee, April 2018
• Parag Pathak wins the John Bates Clark Award by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (blog), April 20, 2018
• Marx and modern microeconomics By Samuel Bowles, VoxEU, 21 April 2018
• The Fed’s New Operating Procedures by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), April 5, 2018
• Lessons from “The Profit” by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), April 4, 2018
• Enough already with GDP: Putting growth in its proper perspective By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, April 2, 2018

Notable: March 2018

• Escape Artist by Peter J. Walker, FINANCE & DEVELOPMENT, MARCH 2018, VOL. 55, NO. 1 [Profile of Angus Deaton]
• Misconceptions about Trade Deficits By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), March 30, 2018
• How to Think About Corporate Tax Cuts By JUSTIN WOLFERS, The New York Times, MARCH 30, 2018
• Laplace's Theories of Cognitive Illusions, Heuristics, and Biases By Joshua B. Miller and Andrew Gelman, SSRN Working Paper, March 26, 2018
• What’s Up With That: Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse By Adam Mann, Wired, June 17, 2014. [Old article seen on March 26, 2018!]
• Tax Cuts and Wages Redux (Slightly Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 25, 2018.
• Trade and the Cities (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 24, 2018.
• National Accounts Statistics Back Series 2007 (1950-51 to 1999-2000) Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, Government of India, Downloaded on March 25, 2018
• National Accounts Statistics 2017 Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, Government of India, Downloaded on March 25, 2018
• Statistical Year Book India 2018 Ministry of Statistics and Program Implementation, Government of India, Downloaded on March 25, 2018
• The euro area’s deepening political divide By Ashoka Mody, VoxEU, 21 March 2018
• Financial engineering will not stabilise an unstable euro area By Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji, VoxEU, 19 March 2018
• Sovereign GDP-linked bonds: Rationale and design By Robert Shiller, Jonathan D. Ostry, James Benford, and Mark Joy, VoxEU,16 March 2018
• Noncompete Agreements Take a Toll on the Economy By Noah Smith, Bloomberg View, March 22, 2018.
• Weak productivity growth and monetary policy: A Keynesian growth perspective By Gianluca Benigno and Luca Fornaro, VoxEU, 15 March 2018
• Why History Goes in Circles By Eric Ormsby, The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2018 [Review of “Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography” by Robert Irwin.]
• A Billionaire and a Nurse Shouldn’t Pay the Same Fine for Speeding By ALEC SCHIERENBECK, The New York Times, MARCH 15, 2018
• I added an online comment to the article.
• Paul Krugman Explains Trade and Tariffs By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 15, 2018
• Why is free trade good? The Economist, March 14, 2018
• Ten Years After Bear By Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, Money and Banking (blog), March 12, 2018
• Ten Years After the Bear Stearns Bailout, Nobody Thinks It Would Happen Again By Justin Baer and Ryan Tracy, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2018
• What Steven Pinker gets wrong about economic inequality — and the Enlightenment By David Lay Williams, The Washington Post, March 11, 2018
• Inflation? Bring It On. Workers Could Actually Benefit. By ISABEL V. SAWHILL, The New York Times, MARCH 9, 2018
• The Real Engine of the Business Cycle By Atif Mian and Amir Sufi, Project Syndicate, March 5, 2018
• Trump White House quietly issues report vindicating Obama regulations By David Roberts, Vox, March 6, 2018
• Economic Forecasts with the Yield Curve By Michael D. Bauer and Thomas M. Mertens, FRBSF Economic Letter, March 5, 2018
• The Truth About the SAT and ACT By Nathan Kuncel and Paul Sackett, The Wall Street Journal, March 8, 2018
• Right-to-Work Laws Have Devastated Unions — and Democrats By JAMES FEIGENBAUM, ALEXANDER HERTEL-FERNANDEZ and VANESSA WILLIAMSON, The New York Times, MARCH 8, 2018
• Trump’s tariffs: We’re missing the bigger picture By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, March 2, 2018

Notable: February 2018

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• How Low Can Unemployment Really Go? Economists Have No Idea By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Feb. 28, 2018
• Paroling the Spanish Prisoner (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 24, 2018
• You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes By Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View, February 23, 2018
• John Stuart Mill: higher happiness By CHRISTOPHER MACLEOD, The Times Literary Supplement, February 13, 2018
• Mindless eating: is there something rotten behind the research? By Pete Etchells and Chris Chambers, The Guardian, 16 Feb 2018
• A storm of retractions, corrections, data irregularities and controversy over duplicate publication are destroying the credibility of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab. It’s time for the university to be open about what’s going on.
• The Tyranny of Convenience By Tim Wu, The New York Times, February 16, 2018
• Why Economists Are Worried About International Trade By N. GREGORY MANKIW, The New York Times, FEB. 16, 2018
• What Can the U.S. Learn From How Other Countries Handle Immigration? By QUOCTRUNG BUI and CAITLIN DICKERSON, The New York Times, FEB. 16, 2018
• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac By Joe Light, Bloomberg QuickTake, February 15, 2018
• Rising Interest Rates, but Easier Financial Conditions By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), February 15, 2018 [On the Chicago Fed's National Financial Conditions Index]
• India’s Universal Basic Income: Introduction  by Saksham Khosla, Carnegie India, February 14, 2018
• Nudge Policies By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), February 14, 2018
• The President’s new budget. Sorry, but attention must be paid. By Jared Bernstein, On the Economy: Jared Bernstein Blog, February 12, 2018
• Economists don’t know when we’re at full employment. Here’s why that’s so important right now. By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, February 12, 2018.
• The Enlightenment Is Working By Steven Pinker, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 9, 2018 [Don’t listen to the gloom-sayers. The world has improved by every measure of human flourishing over the past two centuries, and the progress continues.]
• You May Now Kiss the Algorithm By Jo Craven McGinty, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 9, 2018 [On the Gale-Shapley solution to the stable marriage problem.]
• The Era of Fiscal Austerity Is Over. Here’s What Big Deficits Mean for the Economy. By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Feb. 9, 2018
• The Rise of China and the Fall of the ‘Free Trade’ Myth By PANKAJ MISHRA, The New York Times Magazine, FEB. 7, 2018
• Nudging grows up (and now has a government job) By Bob Holmes, Knowable Magazine, February 1, 2018

Notable: January 2018

• Trump’s tax cuts are worse than fiercest critics claim By Jacob Hacker, The Washington Post, January 30, 2018
• Deficit hawks have flown the coop By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, January 29, 2018
• 'Structural Vector Autoregressive Analysis' by Lutz Kilian and Helmut Lütkepohl, preliminary version of the Cambridge University Press book, 2017
• The Financial Times's 404 page is an ingenious, hilarious introduction to major concepts in economic theory By Cory Doctorow, BoingBoing, January 26, 2018
• Time Consistency: A Primer By Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, Money and Banking (blog), January 29, 2018
• Oxford Review of Economic Policy Volume 34, Issue 1-2, Spring-Summer 2018
• How Blockchain Can End Poverty By Phil Gramm and Hernando de Soto, The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 25, 2018
• Yup, Rent Control Does More Harm Than Good By Noah Smith, Bloomberg View, January 18, 2018. [Economists put the profession's conventional wisdom to the test, only to discover that it's correct.]
• Income Inequality By Esmé E Deprez, Bloomberg QuickTake, January 19, 2018
• Still Not Convinced You Need a Flu Shot? First, It’s Not All About You By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, January 15, 2018. [Adults also need to get vaccinated to provide herd immunity for others, especially babies and older people.]