Notable: October 7, 2016

• Clinton and Kaine, Struggling on Taxes, By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, OCT. 7, 2016 [Clinton and Kaine are flubbing the tax issue. "Many listeners will emerge from these exchanges believing that Trump wants to cut taxes more for most people than Clinton does. In fact, nearly all of Trump’s tax cut would go to the affluent, while Clinton has proposed a series of (still mostly vague) tax credits for the non-rich. ... The first step for Clinton and Kaine is to go beyond the platitudes of their tax proposals so far and offer details — enough to allow independent analysts to score them. The second step is speaking about their plan in the direct language of politics, rather than mixing the more technical language of white papers with jokes about Trump."]
• Canada’s Trudeau Steps Up on Climate Change, By THE EDITORIAL BOARD, The New York Times, OCT. 7, 2016 [Trudeau has done the sensible thing, the textbook thing: "The plan will allow each of Canada’s 10 provinces and three territories to choose its own method of carbon pricing, whether a direct tax on emissions or a cap-and-trade system under which governments put a ceiling on emissions and allow utilities, manufacturing plants, fuel distributors and others to buy and sell permits to emit greenhouse gases. Whatever system the provinces and territories choose, they must establish a price by 2018, starting at a minimum of 10 Canadian dollars per ton of carbon (about $7.60 in American dollars) and rising to at least 50 Canadian dollars in 2022. They can use the revenue generated to lower other taxes or invest in renewable energy and other climate projects. The federal government will impose fines on provinces that fail to act." The politically savvy strategy against any opponents who point to rising energy costs is to return all revenues from the taxes -- and all government revenue from pollution permit auctions -- back to the people. That will silence all complaints, as has happened in British Columbia.]
• What About the Planet?, By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, OCT. 7, 2016 ["Our two major political parties are at odds on many issues, but nowhere is the gap bigger or more consequential than on climate. ... There is, quite simply, no other issue this important, and letting it slide would be almost criminally irresponsible."]

Notable: October 6, 2016

• Global Trade War, Trump Edition, By Thomas B. Edsall, The New York Times, OCT. 6, 2016
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Notable: October 2, 2016

• Why Unconventional Monetary Policy Works in Theory By Roger Farmer and Pawel Zabczyk, Bank Underground (blog), September 30, 2016
• Debate Night Message: The Markets Are Afraid of Donald Trump, By JUSTIN WOLFERS, The Upshot (blog), The New York Times, SEPT. 30, 2016
• Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found, By DAVID BARSTOW, SUSANNE CRAIG, RUSS BUETTNER and MEGAN TWOHEY, The New York Times, OCT. 1, 2016
• The Making of Donald Trump, By David Cay Johnston, C-SPAN, August 25, 2016.
• How Donald Trump Turned the Tax Code Into a Giant Tax Shelter, By JAMES B. STEWART, The New York Times, OCT. 2, 2016
• In 1990, more than 60% of people in East Asia were in extreme poverty. Now only 3.5% are., by Dylan Matthews, Vox, Oct 2, 2016

Notable: October 1, 2016

• Is India ready for a universal basic income scheme? By Maitreesh Ghatak, Ideas for India, September 28, 2016
• The universal basic share By Debraj Ray, Ideas for India, September 29, 2016
• The universal basic share and social incentives By Debraj Ray and Karl Ove Moene, Ideas for India, September 30, 2016
• Minimum standard of living for all Indians By T. N. Srinivasan, Ideas for India, September 30, 2016
• Bharat Ek Khoj 01: Bharat Mata Ki Jai, Episode 1 of a TV series directed by Shyam Benegal.
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Notable: September 30, 2016

• Find and replace text and other data in a Word document Useful discussion of wildcards in the execution of search and replace in Microsoft Word
• “PATENTS AS A SPUR TO SUBSEQUENT INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM PHARMACEUTICALS,” D. GILCHRIST (2016), By Kevin Bryan, A Fine Theorem (blog), September 30, 2016.
• The State of Advanced Economies and Related Policy Debates: A Fall 2016 Assessment, By Olivier Blanchard, Policy Brief, Peterson Institute for International Economics, September 2016.

Notable: September 29, 2016

• Why Study Economics? By Stanley Fischer, At the Convocation for the Department of Economics, Howard University, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2016
• Anti-globalists: Why they’re wrong The Economist, October 1, 2016 [Editorial accompanying a Special report: Globalisation’s critics say it benefits only the elite. In fact, a less open world would hurt the poor most of all]
• The world economy: An open and shut case The Economist, October 1, 2016
• Free trade: Coming and going, The Economist, October 1, 2016
• Migration: Needed but not wanted, The Economist, October 1, 2016
• Capital mobility: The good, the bad and the ugly, The Economist, October 1, 2016
• Deregulation and competition: A lapse in concentration, The Economist, October 1, 2016
• Saving globalisation: The reset button, The Economist, October 1, 2016
• Trade deals: Hard bargain, The Economist, October 1, 2016
• Free exchange: Down to earth, The Economist, October 1, 2016
• More Wealth, More Jobs, but Not for Everyone: What Fuels the Backlash on Trade, By PETER S. GOODMAN, The New York Times, SEPT. 28, 2016 [Trade is under attack in much of the world, because economists failed to anticipate the accompanying joblessness, and governments failed to help.]
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Notable: September 28, 2016

• Shamed and Angry: Alicia Machado, a Miss Universe Mocked by Donald Trump By MICHAEL BARBARO and MEGAN TWOHEY, The New York Times, SEPT. 27, 2016
• Bank of England Re-Enters the Corporate Debt Market By JASON DOUGLAS and
  JON SINDREU, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 27, 2016
• I sold Trump $100,000 worth of pianos. Then he stiffed me. By J. Michael Diehl, The Washington Post, September 28, 2016
• Natural born killers: humans predisposed to murder, study suggests By Nicola Davis, The Guardian, September 28, 2016
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