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