Notable: December 2019

• The best work on political economy in 2019  by Daniel Drezner, The Washington Post, December 31, 2019
• The Solow Model: is it the GOAT?  by Arnold Kling, askblog, December 30, 2019
• In the U.S., an Angioplasty Costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400.  By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2019
• Surprise Exception to the Global Manufacturing Slowdown: Greece  By Sarah Chaney and Soo Oh, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 22, 2019
• The big economic lessons of the decade  By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, Dec. 23, 2019
• Bayes theorem, and making probability intuitive  3Blue1Brown, YouTube, December 22, 2019
• The quick proof of Bayes' theorem  3Blue1Brown, YouTube, December 22, 2019
• ‘It’s depressing, isn’t it?’: With little protest, GOP succumbs to Trump on spending  By Robert Costa, The Washington Post, Dec. 19, 2019
• The intellectual spoils of war: How government spending on defence research benefits the private sector  By Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender, John Van Reenen, VoxEU, 18 December 2019
• Macroeconomic frameworks  By Alan Auerbach, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Daniel Murphy, VoxEU, 18 December 2019
• Corporations paid 11.3 percent tax rate last year, in steep drop under President Trump’s law  By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, Dec. 16, 2019
• Banks do not create money out of thin air  By  Pontus Rendahl and Lukas B. Freund, VoxEU, 14 December 2019
• A Data Big Bang  by Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman, The Indian Express, December 9, 2019
• The massive triumph of the rich, illustrated by stunning new data  By Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2019
• The Afghanistan Papers A secret history of the war At war with the truth  By Craig Whitlock, The Washigton Post, Dec. 9, 2019
• Immigration Quotas of 1920s Failed to Aid U.S.-Born Workers’ Pay  By Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg, December 9, 2019
• Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise By Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson, The New York Times, Dec. 7, 2019
• GDP Doesn’t Include Proceeds of Crime. Should It?  By Jo Craven McGinty, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6, 2019
• How a Strong Job Market Has Proved the Experts Wrong  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2019
•  2 Nobel-winning economists speak out on our big economic problem: not enough immigration  By Dylan Matthews, vox.com, Dec 6, 2019
• Administrative assistant jobs helped propel many women into the middle class. Now they’re disappearing.  By Heather Long, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• The one surprising thing the Trump administration got right on health care  By Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• Gilead delayed safer HIV drug to extend monopoly profits, advocates allege  By Christopher Rowland, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• Could Tax Increases Speed Up the Economy? Democrats Say Yes  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2019
• What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know. By Francisco Toro, The Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2019
• Watch 4 Decades of Inequality Drive American Cities Apart  By Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2019
• Against Economics by David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, December 5, 2019. [Review of Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics by Robert Skidelsky]
• Yes, Americans are feeling the squeeze. It’s coming from health care.  by Robert Samuelson, The Washington Post, December 1, 2019

Notable: November 2019

• When a Disappointment Helped Lead to a Nobel Prize  By Seema Jayachandran, The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2019
• From local to global: A unified theory of public basic research  by  Hans Gersbach, Ulrich Schetter, Samuel Schmassmann, VoxEU, 28 November 2019
• Will the U.S. Bring Down the WTO?  By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2019
• The ‘crisis of capitalism’ is not the one Europeans think it is   by Branko Milanović, The Guardian, November 27, 2019
• The Horrible History of Thanksgiving  By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2019
• The Vicious Reality Behind the Thanksgiving Myth  By David J. Silverman, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2019
• The 10 Best Books of 2019  The New York Times, November 22, 2019
• 100 Notable Books of 2019  The New York Times, November 22, 2019
• The Jim Crow South? No, Long Island Today  By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Nov. 21, 2019
•  Economic Security Programs Cut Poverty Nearly in Half Over Last 50 Years  by Danilo Trisi and Matt Saenz, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 26, 2019
• Meet the Leftish Economist With a New Story About Capitalism  By Katy Lederer, The New York Times, Nov. 26, 2019
• The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More.  By Hillary Chute, The New York Times, Nov. 12, 2019
• Will Science Ever Give Us a Better Night’s Sleep?  By Kim Tingley, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 19, 2019
• The Life and Death of the Local Hardware Store  By Tim Wu, The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2019
• Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project  By William J. Broad, The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2019
• Wealth taxes often failed in Europe. They wouldn’t here.  By Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, The Washington Post, Oct. 25, 2019
• Which College Graduates Make the Most?  By Josh Mitchell, Andrea Fuller and Michelle Hackman, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2019
• Trump’s tax ‘reform’ might have backfired  By Robert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post, November 19, 2019
• Americans have questions about Medicare-for-all. Canadians have answers.  By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington Post, November 19, 2019
• General election 2019: How much tax do British people pay?  By Helen Miller, BBC News, 19 November 2019
•  One Explanation for Weak Wage Growth: Workers’ Reluctance to Switch Jobs  By Tom Fairless, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 17, 2019
•  ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’ Review: Sticky Markets, Tricky Solutions  By William Easterly, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 17, 2019
• Review of “Good Economics for Hard Times,” by  Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann  By Jørgen Veisdal, Medium, Nov 11, 2019
• Long Island Divided  By Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow
  and project editor Arthur Browne, Newsday, Nov. 17, 2019
• Raise Billions From Billionaires? Tax Experts Say It’s Not That Simple  By Paul Sullivan, The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2019
• How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0  By Jim Tankersley, Peter Eavis and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2019
• Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo: 'You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration'  Channel 4 News, YouTube, November 13, 2019
• Is surge pricing the fairest way to manage demand?  by Tim Harford, BBC, November 12, 2019
• Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender  by Deirdre McCloskey, Quillette, November 10, 2019
• Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize-winning economist  BBC HARDtalk, YouTube, November 8, 2019
• How Is a Wealth Tax Like a Cigarette Tax?  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2019
• Here’s how Warren’s plan would make it nearly impossible for U.S. businesses to stash profits overseas  By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, November 5, 2019
• Are We in a Recession? Experts Agree: Ask Claudia Sahm By Kate Davidson, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2019
• In the Amazon, Fires Steal Breath, but Smoke Smells of Money  By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2019
• What Could Come Between These Two Allies? A $100 Jar of Honey  By Jamie Tarabay, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2019
• The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions  By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo and Benjamin Novak, The New York Times, Nov. 3, 2019
• 39 Vietnamese Died in a U.K. Truck. 18,000 More Endure This Perilous Trip. By Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times, Published Nov. 1, 2019