Notable: December 2018

• The deep roots of development - Part 1  By Dietrich Vollrath (growthecon.com), December 31, 2018
•  The best work on political economy in 2018  By Daniel Drezner, The Washington Post, December 31, 2018
• Why the World Needs to Rethink Retirement  By Katie Robertson, The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2018
• New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out By Alexandra Alter, The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2018
• Twitter thread on Trump's corporate tax cut By Jared Bernstein, December 28, 2018
• Bad Faith, Pathos and G.O.P. Economics By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 27, 2018
• ‘This is our reality now.’ The New York Times, December 27, 2018
• Twitter Thread By Paul Krugman, December 26, 2018
• The Case for a Mixed Economy By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 22, 2018
• Did Economist James M. Buchanan Support "Massive Resistance" to School Desegregation? By Art Carden, Forbes, December 21, 2018
• Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expanding Them? By Seema Jayachandran, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2018
• Japan Finally Concedes Its Crazy Low Prices Can’t Be Beat By Megumi Fujikawa, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 21, 2018
• What You Can Learn From One of Warren Buffett’s Smartest Investors By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 21, 2018
• Did This Health Care Policy Do Harm? By Rishi K. Wadhera, Karen E. Joynt Maddox and Robert W. Yeh, The New York Times, December 21, 2018
• Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2018
• Hard-Money Men, Suddenly Going Soft By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 20, 2018
• The Fed’s Risky Plan to Boost Unemployment By Narayana Kocherlakota, BloombergOpinion, December 19, 2018
• Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise, Podcast interview of Kahneman by Tyler Cowen, December 19, 2018
• Remaking Economics: Series of Articles: 
• The re-education of Economics 101 By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 15, 2018
• The dismal cost of economics’ lack of racial diversity By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 16, 2018
• The reinvention of economics after the crash By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 18, 2018
• How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments By Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2018
• The Hutchins Center Explains: Federal budget basics By Anna Malinovskaya and Louise Sheiner, Up Front (blog), Brookings,December 13, 2018
• Out of Power? Political Capture of the Indian Electricity Sector -- Guest post by Meera Mahadevan  Development Impact, December 12, 2018
• Don’t Fall for Facebook’s ‘China Argument’ By Tim Wu, The New York Times, December 10, 2018
• America’s global dominance in technology requires fierce competition at home, not the coddling of monopolies.