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