Notable: October 12, 2016

• Why this Nobel prize for economics is so well deserved By MARK THOMA, MONEYWATCH October 12, 2016
• The Affordable Care Act is covering people, holding down costs and not killing jobs By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, October 11, 2016
• Central Banks Consider Bitcoin’s Technology, if Not Bitcoin By NATHANIEL POPPER, The New York Times, OCT. 11, 2016
• What Donald Trump’s Big Tax Break Might Buy By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, OCT. 11, 2016

Notable: October 10, 2016

• Press Release: The Prize in Economic Sciences 2016, October 10, 2016 [The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016 to Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström.]
• Popular Science Background, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016
• Scientific Background, Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2016
• Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom Win Nobel in Economics for Work on Contracts, By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM, The New York Times, OCT. 10, 2016
• An Economics Nobel for Examining Reality, By Noah Smith, BloombergView, October 10, 2016
• Economics Nobel Rewards Theories Worth Building On, By Tyler Cowen, BloombergView, October 10, 2016
• Where the Economics Nobel Came From, By Justin Fox, BloombergView, October 6, 2016
• Oliver Hart, Nobel Laureate, By Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 10, 2016
• Bengt Holmström, Nobel Laureate, By Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 10, 2016
• The Performance Pay Nobel, By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 10, 2016
• Economics Nobel 2016: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom, Cheap Talk (blog), October 10, 2016
• NOBEL PRIZE 2016 PART I: BENGT HOLMSTROM

Notable: October 8, 2016

• How Donald Trump Uses the Tax Code in Ways You Can’t, By JEREMY ASHKENAS, GABRIEL J.X. DANCE and GUILBERT GATES, The New York Times, OCT. 7, 2016 [Good primer on real estate taxation.]
• Hillary Clinton Targets Tax Hikes at the Very Top, By RICHARD RUBIN, The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 7, 2016 ["The top-earning 1% of U.S. households—and especially the top 0.1%—have a lot to lose from Hillary Clinton’s tax proposals."]
• Tidyr | R Tutorial, By Francis Lara, YouTube, April 14, 2016
• Sending Potatoes to Idaho? How the Free Market Can Fight Poverty, By SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN, The Upshot (blog), The New York Times, OCT. 7, 2016

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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