- 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
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
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