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