Notable: January 2020

• A 97-Year-Old Philosopher Faces His Own Death The Atlantic (YouTube channel), January 14, 2020
  
• Americans know wealth inequality is a problem, but what does it look like?  CBS This Morning, YouTube, January 31, 2020
• Most dietary supplements don’t do anything. Why do we spend $35 billion a year on them?  By Tamar Haspel, The Washington Post, Jan. 27, 2020
• My spring 2020 Industrial Organization reading list and syllabus  by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (blog), January 25, 2020
• How ‘Big Law’ Makes Big Money By Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, FEBRUARY 13, 2020
  • Review of "The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality" by Katharina Pistor
• In a Sharp Downturn, College Can Be a Shock Absorber By Susan Dynarski, The New York Times, Jan. 19, 2020
• The best way to help the climate is to increase the price of CO2 emissions  by Jeffrey Frankel, Project Syndicate (in The Guardian), January 20, 2020
• There Is a Fund for Everything. But Why?  By Brian J. O'Connor, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2020
• Now, Try Slicing the Stock Market Into Equal Pieces  By Conrad de Aenlle, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2020
• You Don’t Need to Travel to Profit From International Stocks  By Liz Moyer, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2020
• How to Get Rid of 9,000 Tons of Toxic Topsoil  By Helene Stapinski, The New York Times, Jan. 16, 2020
• Textbooks are pricey. So students are getting creative.  By Lauren Lumpkin, The Washington Post, Jan. 17, 2020
• The Netherlands has universal health insurance — and it’s all private  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 17, 2020
• China Has a Big Economic Problem, and It Isn’t the Trade War  By Yasheng Huang, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2020
•  Being wealthy adds nine years to life expectancy, says study  by Amelia Hill, The Guardian, Wed 15 Jan 2020
• Taiwan’s single-payer success story — and its lessons for America  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 13, 2020
• Liberal arts education: Waste of money or practical investment? Study’s conclusions might surprise you. By Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post, Jan. 14, 2020
• The big problem with the American Dream By John Larson, The Washington Post, Jan. 14, 2020
• What Happened When a State Made Food Stamps Harder to Get  By Campbell Robertson, The New York Times, Jan. 13, 2020. [In West Virginia, tougher work requirements for receiving food stamps complicated life for poor people, but did not result in increased employment.]
• The Only Thing Stopping Us From Taxing the Rich Is Political Will  By Clio Chang, The Nation, January 9, 2020
• Why Finland And Denmark Are Happier Than The U.S.  CNBC Make It, YouTube, January 9, 2020
• The 1% are much more satisfied with their lives than everyone else, survey finds  By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, Jan. 9, 2020
• Modeling the Financial System with a Corn Economy – “misleading and disastrous”  By Peter Bofinger, Institute for New Economic Thinking (blog), Jan 3, 2020
• Minimum wage increases fueling faster wage growth for those at the bottom By Andrew Van Dam and Rachel Siegel, The Washington Post, Jan. 2, 2020