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