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