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