Notable: December 2019

• The best work on political economy in 2019  by Daniel Drezner, The Washington Post, December 31, 2019
• The Solow Model: is it the GOAT?  by Arnold Kling, askblog, December 30, 2019
• In the U.S., an Angioplasty Costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400.  By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2019
• Surprise Exception to the Global Manufacturing Slowdown: Greece  By Sarah Chaney and Soo Oh, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 22, 2019
• The big economic lessons of the decade  By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, Dec. 23, 2019
• Bayes theorem, and making probability intuitive  3Blue1Brown, YouTube, December 22, 2019
• The quick proof of Bayes' theorem  3Blue1Brown, YouTube, December 22, 2019
• ‘It’s depressing, isn’t it?’: With little protest, GOP succumbs to Trump on spending  By Robert Costa, The Washington Post, Dec. 19, 2019
• The intellectual spoils of war: How government spending on defence research benefits the private sector  By Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender, John Van Reenen, VoxEU, 18 December 2019
• Macroeconomic frameworks  By Alan Auerbach, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Daniel Murphy, VoxEU, 18 December 2019
• Corporations paid 11.3 percent tax rate last year, in steep drop under President Trump’s law  By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, Dec. 16, 2019
• Banks do not create money out of thin air  By  Pontus Rendahl and Lukas B. Freund, VoxEU, 14 December 2019
• A Data Big Bang  by Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman, The Indian Express, December 9, 2019
• The massive triumph of the rich, illustrated by stunning new data  By Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2019
• The Afghanistan Papers A secret history of the war At war with the truth  By Craig Whitlock, The Washigton Post, Dec. 9, 2019
• Immigration Quotas of 1920s Failed to Aid U.S.-Born Workers’ Pay  By Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg, December 9, 2019
• Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise By Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson, The New York Times, Dec. 7, 2019
• GDP Doesn’t Include Proceeds of Crime. Should It?  By Jo Craven McGinty, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6, 2019
• How a Strong Job Market Has Proved the Experts Wrong  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2019
•  2 Nobel-winning economists speak out on our big economic problem: not enough immigration  By Dylan Matthews, vox.com, Dec 6, 2019
• Administrative assistant jobs helped propel many women into the middle class. Now they’re disappearing.  By Heather Long, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• The one surprising thing the Trump administration got right on health care  By Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• Gilead delayed safer HIV drug to extend monopoly profits, advocates allege  By Christopher Rowland, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• Could Tax Increases Speed Up the Economy? Democrats Say Yes  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2019
• What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know. By Francisco Toro, The Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2019
• Watch 4 Decades of Inequality Drive American Cities Apart  By Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2019
• Against Economics by David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, December 5, 2019. [Review of Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics by Robert Skidelsky]
• Yes, Americans are feeling the squeeze. It’s coming from health care.  by Robert Samuelson, The Washington Post, December 1, 2019

Notable: November 2019

• When a Disappointment Helped Lead to a Nobel Prize  By Seema Jayachandran, The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2019
• From local to global: A unified theory of public basic research  by  Hans Gersbach, Ulrich Schetter, Samuel Schmassmann, VoxEU, 28 November 2019
• Will the U.S. Bring Down the WTO?  By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2019
• The ‘crisis of capitalism’ is not the one Europeans think it is   by Branko Milanović, The Guardian, November 27, 2019
• The Horrible History of Thanksgiving  By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2019
• The Vicious Reality Behind the Thanksgiving Myth  By David J. Silverman, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2019
• The 10 Best Books of 2019  The New York Times, November 22, 2019
• 100 Notable Books of 2019  The New York Times, November 22, 2019
• The Jim Crow South? No, Long Island Today  By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Nov. 21, 2019
•  Economic Security Programs Cut Poverty Nearly in Half Over Last 50 Years  by Danilo Trisi and Matt Saenz, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 26, 2019
• Meet the Leftish Economist With a New Story About Capitalism  By Katy Lederer, The New York Times, Nov. 26, 2019
• The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More.  By Hillary Chute, The New York Times, Nov. 12, 2019
• Will Science Ever Give Us a Better Night’s Sleep?  By Kim Tingley, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 19, 2019
• The Life and Death of the Local Hardware Store  By Tim Wu, The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2019
• Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project  By William J. Broad, The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2019
• Wealth taxes often failed in Europe. They wouldn’t here.  By Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, The Washington Post, Oct. 25, 2019
• Which College Graduates Make the Most?  By Josh Mitchell, Andrea Fuller and Michelle Hackman, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2019
• Trump’s tax ‘reform’ might have backfired  By Robert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post, November 19, 2019
• Americans have questions about Medicare-for-all. Canadians have answers.  By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington Post, November 19, 2019
• General election 2019: How much tax do British people pay?  By Helen Miller, BBC News, 19 November 2019
•  One Explanation for Weak Wage Growth: Workers’ Reluctance to Switch Jobs  By Tom Fairless, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 17, 2019
•  ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’ Review: Sticky Markets, Tricky Solutions  By William Easterly, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 17, 2019
• Review of “Good Economics for Hard Times,” by  Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann  By Jørgen Veisdal, Medium, Nov 11, 2019
• Long Island Divided  By Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow
  and project editor Arthur Browne, Newsday, Nov. 17, 2019
• Raise Billions From Billionaires? Tax Experts Say It’s Not That Simple  By Paul Sullivan, The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2019
• How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0  By Jim Tankersley, Peter Eavis and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2019
• Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo: 'You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration'  Channel 4 News, YouTube, November 13, 2019
• Is surge pricing the fairest way to manage demand?  by Tim Harford, BBC, November 12, 2019
• Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender  by Deirdre McCloskey, Quillette, November 10, 2019
• Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize-winning economist  BBC HARDtalk, YouTube, November 8, 2019
• How Is a Wealth Tax Like a Cigarette Tax?  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2019
• Here’s how Warren’s plan would make it nearly impossible for U.S. businesses to stash profits overseas  By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, November 5, 2019
• Are We in a Recession? Experts Agree: Ask Claudia Sahm By Kate Davidson, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2019
• In the Amazon, Fires Steal Breath, but Smoke Smells of Money  By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2019
• What Could Come Between These Two Allies? A $100 Jar of Honey  By Jamie Tarabay, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2019
• The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions  By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo and Benjamin Novak, The New York Times, Nov. 3, 2019
• 39 Vietnamese Died in a U.K. Truck. 18,000 More Endure This Perilous Trip. By Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times, Published Nov. 1, 2019

Notable: October 2019

• Rawls & Theodicy  By Samuel Moyn, Commonweal, October 30, 2019
• What John Rawls Missed  By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The New Republic, October 29, 2019
• Savoring the Taste of Memories in Northern India  By Romy Gill, The New York Times, Oct. 28, 2019
• Indian Economic Reform: Much More Than You Wanted To Know  by Scott Alexander, Slate Star Codex (blog), October 23, 2019
• How to Get a Better Deal From a Real Estate Agent  By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, Oct. 24, 2019
•  Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans  By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2019
• How liberalism became ‘the god that failed’ in eastern Europe  By Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes, The Guardian, Ocober 24, 2019
• Economists rush to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren solve Medicare-for-all tax puzzle  By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2019
• Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think  By Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern, The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2019
• Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed?  By Eliza Gray, The Washington Post Magazine, October 21, 2019
• Who tips best on Uber? Economists analyzed 40 million trips  By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, Oct. 22, 2019
• The French Economist Who Helped Invent Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax  By Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, October 19, 2019
• We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All’  By Lindsay Koshgarian, The New York Times, OCT. 17, 2019
• Lessons from Mexico’s poverty reduction programme  VoxDev, October 9, 2019
• Socialism doesn’t work? An emerging middle class of Bolivians would beg to differ.  By Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2019
• Americans already pay a ‘gigantic’ hidden health-care tax, economists say  By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2019
• The Should-Be Solution to the Student-Debt Problem  By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, Oct. 13, 2019
• Should We Soak the Rich? You Bet!  By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2019
• Why U.S. Businesses Want Trustbusting  By Matt Stoller, The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 11, 2019
• How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice  By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2019
• Bad company: The astonishing and violent rise of the East India Company  The Economist, October 12, 2019
• Review of "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company" By William Dalrymple.
• What Trump’s Aggressive Trade Tactics Have Achieved  By Veronique de Rugy, The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2019
• An economic crisis in your teens can alter your behavior for life, economists find By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2019

Notable: September 2019

• Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice.  By Gina Kolata, The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2019
• Lifting the Curtain on Income-Share Agreements  By Andrew Kreighbaum, Inside Higher Ed, September 26, 2019
• Top of the class: Labour seeks to emulate Finland's school system  By Sally Weale, The Guardian, 27 Sep 2019
• Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need Help Least?  By Tara Westover, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2019
• Review of THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST: How College Makes or Breaks Us, By Paul Tough
• We’re Getting Ripped Off  By Jordan Weissmann, Slate, Sept 27, 2019
• Income inequality in America is the highest it’s been since census started tracking it, data shows By Taylor Telford, The Washington Post, September 26, 2019
• In Ukraine Phone Call, Alarmed Aides Saw Trouble  By Peter Baker, The New York Times, Sept. 27, 2019
• Employer Health Insurance Is Increasingly Unaffordable, Study Finds  By Reed Abelson, The New York Times, Sept. 25, 2019
• A relentless rise in premiums and deductibles is putting insurance out of reach for many workers, especially those with low incomes.
• What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?  By William Langewiesche, The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 20, 2019
• Chicago School Professor Fights ‘Chicago School’ Beliefs That Abet Big Tech  By Daisuke Wakabayashi, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2019
• What People Say About the Economy Can Set Off a Recession  by Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2019
•  A generation of economists helped get us into this mess. A new generation can get us out.  By Jared Bernstein, Vox, Sep 13, 2019
• Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment  by James Bessen, VoxEU, Sptember 12, 2019
• A gift that keeps on giving: The contributions of Martin Weitzman to environmental economics by Robert Stavins, VoxEU, September 9, 2019
• Is Majoring in English Worth It?  By William McGurn, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 9, 2019
• Germany Offers a Model to Corporate America on Labor Relations  By William Boston and Eric Morath, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 9, 2019
• Workers in Germany enjoy high protections and a say in management decisions that their U.S. counterparts would envy
•  Poor and middle-class Americans are much less likely to survive into their 70s than the wealthy, federal report says  By Christopher Ingraham and Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, September 9, 2019
• End Legacy College Admissions  by The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2019
• Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas  By Farah Stockman and Carlos Mureithi, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2019
• When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says  By Cade Metz, The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2019
• Do we have an endogenous growth model in which human capital has two uses: the creation of human capital (education) and the creation of patentable ideas (R&D)? If not, is it worth writing up such a model? Might it be possible to use this phenomenon to build a model with innovation cycles? When there are lots of experts in education, lots of successful innovation occurs; some sort of complementarities attract teachers into industry, thereby harming education; this reduces students' innovation; the complemetarities now work in reverse, which sends more experts to academia; and the cycle renews.
• Death by Diet Soda?  By Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2019
• A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man  By Emily Badger, The New York Times, Sept. 5, 2019
• Martin Weitzman, Virtuoso Climate Change Economist, Dies at 77 By Sam Roberts, The New York Times, Sept. 4, 2019

Notable: August 2019

• Historic Asset Boom Passes by Half of Families By David Harrison | Graphics by Danny Dougherty and Maureen Linke, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 30, 2019
• Can an infusion of public R&D investment revitalize a lagging economy? PBS Newshour, August 29, 2019
• How Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America by Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic, September 2019
• Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2019
• Should Government ‘Pick Winners’? It’s Worked Before By Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, August 22, 2019
• Don’t worry too much about all the uproar over the inverted yield curve  By Allan Sloan, The Washington Post, August 23, 2019
• The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money  By Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, August 20, 2019
• What’s the Deal With That Inverted Yield Curve? A Sports Analogy Might Help  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019
• A bet by investors that the future will be worse than the present.
• I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have.  By Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019
• In Delaying Tariffs, Trump Faces Up to Economic Reality  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Aug. 14, 2019
• President Trump insists China is paying the full cost of his tariffs. But his decision to push some of them off until December is an admission of their impact on American consumers.
• What Makes an American?  By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, Aug. 9, 2019
• The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism  By Jo Becker, The New York Times, Aug. 10, 2019
• Prices for many goods do not move the way economists think they should  The Economist, August 8, 2019
•  College Still Pays Off, but Not for Everyone  By Josh Mitchell, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 9, 2019
• Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns  By Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, August 8, 2019
• Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200 Billion in I.O.U.s  By Alexandra Stevenson and Cao Li, The New York Times, August 6, 2019
• Russians Flock to Easy Loans as Income Dips  By Ann M. Simmons, The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2019
•  Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let's rethink it  by Andrew Simms, The Guardian, August 3, 2019
•  Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class  By AnnaMaria Andriotis, Ken Brown and Shane Shifflett, The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2019
•  Japan has weaponized its trade relationship with South Korea By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, The Washington Post, August 1, 2019
• By restricting the export of key chemicals, Japan threatens South Korea’s electronics industry.

Notable: July 2019

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• Thick as a brick: Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works  The Economist, July 20, 2019
•  For Decoding Labor Market, Unemployment Rate May Not Do the Job  By David Harrison, The Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2019
•  Two Economists Fuel Democratic Debate Over How Far Left to Go  By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2019
• The Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushion Against Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration?  By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, July 11, 2019
• The Trade-Off Between Jobs and Inflation Disappears  By Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, July 12, 2019
• The Effects on Employment and Family Income of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage  by Congressional Budget Office, July 8, 2019
• Politicians Don’t Actually Care What Voters Want  By Joshua Kalla and Ethan Porter, The New York Times, July 11, 2019
• Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force  By Ben Casselman and Adam Satariano, The New York Times, July 11, 2019
•  Adam Smith’s Refreshing Idea of Justice  By Vernon Smith, The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2019
• ‘Our Duty’ to Fight: The Rise of Militant Buddhism  By Hannah Beech, The New York Times, July 8, 2019
• Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate, July 2, 2019
• Mysteries of Monetary Policy by Robert J. Barro, Project Syndicate, July 4, 2019
• There Should Be a Public Option for Everything By Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne L. Alstott, The New York Times, July 6, 2019
• Trump Is Losing His Trade Wars  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, July 4, 2019
• Interest Rates Just Keep Falling. Economic Orthodoxy Is Falling With Them.  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, July 4, 2019
• What Would Giving Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants Mean?  By Jan Hoffman, The New York Times, July 3, 2019
• 10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too.  by Gina Kolata, The New York Times, July 1, 2019
• Plane Stowaway Found Dead After Plunge Into a London Garden  by Megan Specia, The New York Times, July 2, 2019

Notable: June 2019

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• A gamble on the rains: The South Asian monsoon, past, present and future The Economist, June 27, 2019
  
• A Comprehensive Guide to Taking Your Smartphone Abroad for Cheap By Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, June 26, 2019
  
• A foreign mafia has come to Italy and further polarized the migration debate By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli, The Washington Post, June 25, 2019
  
• The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism by Andy Beckett, The Guardian, June 25, 2019
  
• How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The New York Times, June 24, 2019
  
• The National Debt Is Still a Problem by N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, June 20, 2019
• Best Drummers Of All Time: 100 Legendary Musicians You Need To Know by uDiscover Team, uDidscoverMusic.com, June 19, 2019
  
• Behavioural economics: People are more honest than they think they are The Economist, June 22, 2019
  
• Globalization Is Moving Past the U.S. and Its Vision of World Order by Peter Goodman, The New York Times, June 19, 2019
• The IPO Shortcut: A Direct Listing By Maureen Farrell and Ana Rivas, The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2019 [How companies like Slack and Spotify can go public without a traditional IPO]
  
• Facebook Plans Global Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency By Mike Isaac and Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times, June 18, 2019
• How Libra, Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Would Work for You By Nathaniel Popper and Mike Isaac, The New York Times, June 18, 2019
• How Food-Delivery Couriers Exploit Desperate Migrants in France By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, June 16, 2019
  
• More than Two Decades of Macroeconomic History Through the Lens of Four Key Components of Aggregate Demand By Brad DeLong, June 16, 2019
  
• How Washington Learned to Love Debt and Deficits By Kate Davidson and Jon Hilsenrath, The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2019
  
• U.S. Inflation Expectations Decline to Lowest Level Since Late 2017, N.Y. Fed Says by Michael S. Derby, The Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2019
  
• The first folio of finance: A revolutionary treatise goes on the block The Economist, June 8, 2019
  
• The trouble with economics The Economist, June 8, 2019
• Review of "Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us." By Jonathan Aldred, Allen Lane
• ‘Socialism for the rich’: the evils of bad economics  by Jonathan Aldred, The Guardian, June 6, 2019
• The rise of millennial socialism By Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman, June 5, 2019
  
• Modern Monetary Theory’s Reluctant Poster Child: Japan by Ben Dooley, The New York Times, June 5, 2019
• Despite its huge debt, the country remains an economic powerhouse. Some say it provides a model for the United States, but its leaders disavow the idea.
• Magical Monetary Theory  by John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke, The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2019
• The Best Tools for Fighting Recession Run on Autopilot by Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, June 5, 2019 [On Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers]

Notable: May 2019

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• The Bond Market Is Trying to Tell Us Something (Worry)  By Matt Phillips and Stephen Grocer, The New York Times, May 30, 2019
• Unhappy With Findings, Agriculture Department Plans to Move Its Economists Out of Town  By Alan Rappeport and Thomas Kaplan, The New York Times, May 30, 2019
• Modern U.S. antitrust theory and evidence amid rising concerns of market power and its effects  by Fiona Scott Morton, Equitable Growth, May 29, 2019
• The Bond Market Is Giving Ominous Warnings About the Global Economy  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, May 29, 2019
• Rise in Unruly Behavior on Planes Is Tied to Stress of Flying  By Amy Zipkin, The New York Times, May 27, 2019
• The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics  by  Dylan Matthews, Vox.com, May 22, 2019
• A Tale of Two Yield Curves  By Daniel Kruger, The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2019
• The Economy Is Strong. So Why Do So Many Americans Still Feel at Risk?  By Jacob S. Hacker, The New York Times, May 21, 2019
• Masters of Austrian Economics #3: Ludwig von Mises  by Academic Agent, YouTube, May 26, 2019
• Masters of Austrian Economics #2: Eugen Böhm-Bawerk  by Academic Agent, YouTube, May 20, 2019
• Masters of Austrian Economics #1: Carl Menger by Academic Agent, YouTube, May 17, 2019
• Even Harvard Is Now Teaching Personal Finance By Julia Carpenter, The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2019
• Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers By Harriet Torry, The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2019 
• Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say  By Anatoly Kurmanaev, The New York Times, May 17, 2019
• Killing the Pax Americana by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 11, 2019
• Trump Is Terrible for Rural America  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 9, 2019
• Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History By Corey Robin, The New Yorker, May 9, 2019
  
• The Economics of Kenneth J. Arrow: A Selective Review  by Eric Maskin,  Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 11:1-26 (Volume publication date August 2019). First published as a Review in Advance on May 6, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-030323
• A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech  By Paul Romer, The New York Times, May 6, 2019
• Putting a levy on targeted ad revenue would give Facebook and Google a real incentive to change their dangerous business models.
• Under Narendra Modi, India’s ruling party poses a threat to democracy by The Economist, May 2, 2019
• Nationalist fervour is likely to secure a second term for Narendra Modi by The Economist, May 2, 2019
• Emi Nakamura wins the John Bates Clark medal by The Economist, May 2, 2019
• A Rare Prize for an Economist Looking at the Big Picture by Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, May 1, 2019

Notable: April 2019

• Wynton Marsalis on 12 Essential Jazz Recordings  by Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, April 29, 2019
• Emi Nakamura, Clark Medalist 2019 American Economic Association Honors and Awards Committee, April 2019
• Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, April 30, 2019
• Japan Is Giving Up on Activist Monetary Policy  By Mike Bird, The Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2019
•  5 Reasons to Reject Any Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment  By Richard Kogan, off the charts (blog), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 29, 2019
•  Recession Graduates: The Long-lasting Effects of an Unlucky Draw  By Hannes Schwandt, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, April 2019.
• Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’  By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, April 26, 2019
• Where Are the Socially Conservative Women in This Fight?  By Helen Andrews, The New York Times, April 27, 2019
• Splat! Bam! It’s the Federal Reserve to the Rescue  By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, April 26, 2019
• The Truth About Jobs in India  By Shamika Ravi, Bloomberg Opinion, April 16, 2019
• Why Has Australia Fallen Out of Love With Immigration?  By Damien Cave and Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, April 22, 2019
• What Can the U.S. Health System Learn From Singapore?  By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, April 22, 2019
• Inequality Will Eventually Hurt the Rich, Too  By Michael Pettis, Barron's, April 18, 2019
• Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron By Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times, April 19, 2019
• A smarter way to think about willpower  By Angela Duckworth, Katherine Milkman and David Laibson, The Washington Post, April 17, 2019
• Inequality Fuels Rage of ‘Yellow Vests’ in Equality-Obsessed France By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, April 15, 2019
• Government to Measure Who Gets What Share of the Economic Pie By David Harrison, The Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2019
• Modern Monetary Theory, explained By Dylan Matthews, Vox.com, Apr 16, 2019 
• Keep the Federal Reserve I Love Alive  By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, April 11, 2019
• One Man vs. McKinsey: A Billionaire Says the Consultancy Has Rigged the Bankruptcy System  By Mary Williams Walsh, The New York Times, April 11, 2019
• Everyone’s Income Taxes Should Be Public  By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, April 13, 2019
• Twitter thread on the politics of climate change legislation
• College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street By Claire Boston, Bloomberg Businessweek, April 9, 2019
• Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment.
• DEADLY GERMS, LOST CURES In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, April 6, 2019
• Overuse of the medicines is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world antibiotics are dispensed with no prescription required.
• DEADLY GERMS, LOST CURES A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, April 6, 2019
• The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
• You Are Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing. By Spencer Greenberg and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times, April 6, 2019 
• State regulation in India – the art of rolling over rather than rolling back  by Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla, The Print, 4 April, 2019
• Winning the War on Poverty  By David Brooks, The New York Times, April 4, 2019
• These Countries Have Prices on Carbon. Are They Working?  By BRAD PLUMER and NADJA POPOVICH, The New York Times, APRIL 2, 2019
• Beware Algorithms That Could Collude on Prices  By Matthew Kassel, The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2019 [In a study, two pricing algorithms learned on their own to raise prices together to unfairly high levels.]
• Congestion Pricing: N.Y. Embraced It. Will Other Clogged Cities Follow? By Winnie Hu, The New York Times, April 1, 2019

Notable: March 2019

• For Some in Japan, Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt Doesn’t Sound So Bad  By Megumi Fujikawa and Kosaku Narioka, The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2019 [The IMF puts Japan’s debt at roughly 240% of GDP, but an antiausterity movement there argues now is the time to borrow more.]
•  Examining an MMT model in detail  by Noah Smith, Noahpinion (blog), March 31, 2019
• Modern Monetary Theory Makes Sense, Up to a Point  By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, March 29, 2019
•  How the rich, the poor and the rest of us make and spend our money  By Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch, March 21, 2019
• The most consequential, and least informed, decision that college students make  By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, March 29, 2019
• The Costs of Inflation  by Miles Kimball, Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal, March 28, 2019
• How high can Britain’s minimum wage go?  The Economist, March 28, 2019
• Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)  By Charlotte Lieberman, The New York Times, March 25, 2019
• Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent in American History.’ By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, March 23, 2019
• Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 21, 2019
• Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? Germans Get It for $55  By Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times, March 21, 2019
• What are central banks for?  by Adam Tooze, Social Europe, on 18th March 2019
• You Never Know When a Recession Will Sneak Up on You  By Austan Goolsbee, The New York Times, March 15, 2019
• How Much Does Getting Into an Elite College Actually Matter? By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, March 15, 2019
• Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 14, 2019 
• Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists  By Lydia DePillis, CNN Business, March 13, 2019
• Hong Kong Spends Nearly $700 Million to Bolster Currency  By Saumya Vaishampayan, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2019
• Long-Classified Memo Surfaces Warning of ‘Perfect Storm’ From Invading Iraq  By Warren P. Strobel, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2019
• British Panel Calls for Stricter Antitrust Rules on Tech Giants  By Adam Satariano, The New York Times, March 12, 2019
• The Report
• Lessons from the East Asian Economic Miracle   by Byrne Hobart, Medium, March 11, 2019
•  Workers suddenly have more power to demand higher pay and better jobs  By Heather Long, The Washington Post, March 8, 2019
• Spain’s Minimum Wage Just Jumped. The Debate Is Continuing.  By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, March 7, 2019
• Why Trump’s Effort to Narrow the Trade Gap Has Flopped So Far By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2019
• How Goes the Trade War?  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 3, 2019
• Suggests that the US is the proverbial "small country" of trade theory
• A Well-Meaning Job Training Bill That May Hurt More Than Help By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, March 1, 2019
• Paul Krugman Asked Me About Modern Monetary Theory. Here Are 4 Answers. by Stephanie Kelton, Bloomberg Opinion, March 1, 2019
• Krugman's response, Twitter thread 

Notable: February 2019

• How Political Science Became Irrelevant By Michael C. Desch, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 2019
• Is Your Rent Through the Roof? Oregon Wants to Fix That By Timothy Williams, The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2019
• How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deficits and Debt by Neil Irwin, The New York Times, February 23, 2019.
• Lessons from the Recovery Act on its 10-year anniversary by Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, February 18, 2019
• The Economic Gains (Yes, Gains) of a Liberal Arts Education By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, February 15, 2019
• Richard Rorty’s prescient warnings for the American left By Sean Illing, Vox, February 2, 2019

Notable: January 2019

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• Wealth Tax by @Noahpinion, Twitter, January 31, 2019 
• A Murky Arms Deal Haunts Modi  by N. Ram, The New York Times, January 30, 2019
• Principles of tax design, public policy and beyond: The ideas of James Mirrlees, 1936-2018  by
  Richard Blundell and Ian Preston, VoxEU.org, 25 January 2019
• The wheel of history: Max Weber’s enduring wisdom  The Economist, January 24, 2019
•  The End of Economics?  by Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Policy, January 25, 2019
• Has economics failed us? Hardly. by Lawrence H. Summers, The Washington Post, January 25, 2019
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich  by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, January 22, 2019
• By Popular Demand: What Is “Modern Monetary Theory”? by Brad DeLong, January 21, 2019
• What If Everyone Got a Monthly Check From the Government?  By Claire Suddath, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 11, 2019
• Economists reconsider how much governments can borrow  The Economist, January 17, 2019
• How behavioural economics helped kick my phone addiction  By Tim Harford, The Financial Times Magazine, January 16, 2019
• Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm  By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, January 13, 2019
• What if Cities Are No Longer the Land of Opportunity for Low-Skilled Workers?  By Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui, The New York Times, Jan. 11, 2019
• It’s Official: The Trump Tax Cuts Didn’t Pay for Themselves in Year One
  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Jan. 11, 2019
•  How Aging Japan Defied Demographics and Revived Its Economy  By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2019
• The Shutdown Isn’t the Only Threat to the Economy By Sheila C. Bair and Gaurav Vasisht, The New York Times, January 10, 2019
• Greece’s Great Hemorrhaging  By Nikos Konstandaras, The New York Times, January 10, 2019
• How Americans became addicted to undocumented immigration By Julia G. Young, The Washington Post, January 9, 2019
• No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job)  by
  Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times, Jan. 8, 2019
• Seven questions for Janet Yellen on financial stability  Up Front (blog), Brookings, January 3, 2019
• How will central bankers cope when the next recession comes?  By Kenneth Rogoff, The Guardian, January 7, 2019
• Trump Has Promised to Bring Jobs Back. His Tariffs Threaten to Send Them Away.  By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, Jan. 6, 2019
• Debate: Guha’s Story of Gandhi in South Africa Does Not Square With the Record By Ashwin Desai, The Wire, January 6, 2019 
• This is a response to Setting the Record Straight on Gandhi and Race by Ramachandra Guha, The Wire, December 23, 2018
• A Trump County Confronts the Administration Amid a Rash of Child Cancers  By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, January 2, 2019
• The Trump Tax Cut: Even Worse Than You’ve Heard By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 1, 2019