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