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