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.]