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