Notable: December 2017

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• Venezuela Is Living a Hyperinflation Nightmare By Noah Smith, Bloomberg View, December 19, 2017
• Heretics welcome! Economics needs a new Reformation By Larry Elliott, The Guardian, December 17, 2017. 
• Steve Keen, who has always been good at making the conventional wisdom about the weaknesses of academic economics sound contrarian, has organized a nice stunt: Recalling Martin Luther's protest in Wittenberg 500 years ago, Keen has nailed his "33 Theses" about the parlous state of current academic economics onto a door in the London School of Economics. His "33 Theses" are here: http://www.newweather.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/33-Theses-for-an-Economics-Reformation.pdf. 
• Interview with Anne Case By DOUGLAS CLEMENT, The Region, December 12, 2017 [Princeton economist on the cost of AIDS in South Africa, “deaths of despair” in the U.S. and women in economics.]
• The toll on I-66 hit a high of $44 this morning By Dana Hedgpeth, The Washington Post,  December 14, 2017
• Stronger Labor Unions Could Do a Lot of Good By Noah Smith, BloombergView, December 6, 2017
• The Elusive Benefits of Flexible Exchange Rates By Gita Gopinath, Project Syndicate, December 4, 2017

Notable: November 2017

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• The Economics Data Revolution Has Growing Pains By Noah Smith, BloombergView, November 27, 2017
• ‘Only Morons Pay the Estate Tax’ By THE EDITORIAL BOARD, The New York Times, NOV. 20, 2017
• Free-Market Failure Has Been Greatly Exaggerated By Noah Smith, BloombergView, November 15, 2017
• Considering the Cost of Lower Taxes By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, November 14, 2017
• THE DISMAL SCIENCE REMAINS DISMAL, SAY SCIENTISTS By Adam Rogers, Wired, November 14, 2017
• How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay (Hint: It Isn’t Simple.) By Claudia Goldin, The New York Times, November 10, 2017
• Traffic Is Piling Up—and So Are Its Costs By Jo Craven McGinty, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 10, 2017
• How Corporations and the Wealthy Avoid Taxes (and How to Stop Them) By Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, November 10, 2017
• Don’t Nudge Me: The Limits of Behavioral Economics in Medicine By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, November 6, 2017
• Eighteenth Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference The Global Financial Cycle, November 2-3, 2017 International Monetary Fund
• Six Myths About Choosing a College Major By JEFFREY J. SELINGO, The New York Times, NOV. 3, 2017
• Why 'Statistical Significance' Is Often Insignificant By Noah Smith, BloombergView, November 2, 2017
• Behavioural economics is also useful in macroeconomics By Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji, VoxEU, 01 November 2017

Notable: October 2017

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• Small farmers in Indian agriculture By Daniel Little, Understanding Society (blog), October 29, 2017
• Nudges Made British Life Better By Cass Sunstein, BloombergView, October 26, 2017
• Online schooling: Who is harmed and who is helped? By Susan M. Dynarski, Brookings: Evidence Speaks, Thursday, October 26, 2017
• THE MORNINGSTAR MIRAGE By Kirsten Grind, Tom McGinty and Sarah Krouse, The Wall Street Journal, October 26, 2017
• Doing Business in India: Myths and Realities By Matthew Lillehaugen and Milan Vaishnav, Ideas for India, October 25, 2017
• The Cookie Crumbles: A Retracted Study Points to a Larger Truth By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, OCT. 23, 2017
• One last time on who benefits from corporate tax cuts By Lawrence H. Summers, The Washington Post, October 22, 2017
• Single-payer would drastically change health care in America. Here’s how it works. By Kim Soffen, The Washington Post, Oct. 17, 2017
• GST Explainer: Value Added Tax 2.0 By Aprajit Mahajan and Shekhar Mittal, Ideas for India (blog), October 18, 2017
• GST Explainer: A legal scholar’s view By Arvind P. Datar, Ideas for India (blog), October 17, 2017
• GST Explainer: A public finance expert’s view By Kavita Rao, Ideas for India (blog), October 16, 2017
• GST Explainer: Introduction By Ashok Kotwal, Ideas for India (blog), October 16, 2017
• Taylor Rule Utility Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, updated on October 13, 2017
• The Fed Claims to Be Independent. That’s Mostly a Myth. By SARAH BINDER and MARK SPINDEL, The New York Times, OCT. 19, 2017
• A Stock Market Panic Like 1987 Could Happen Again By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, October 19, 2017
• When the Revolution Came for Amy Cuddy By SUSAN DOMINUS, The New York Times Magazine, OCT. 18, 2017
• Beyond “power pose”: Using replication failures and a better understanding of data collection and analysis to do better science By Andrew Gelman,
  Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (blog), October 18, 2017
• Why Big Cities Thrive, and Smaller Ones Are Being Left Behind By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, October 10, 2017
• Growth Without Industrialization? By Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate, October 10, 2017
• Promising ideas for future research on the employment effects of minimum wages By David Neumark, VoxEU, 09 October 2017
• Thaler Changed My Life (and Everybody Else's) By Cass Sunstein, BloombergView, October 9, 2017
• THE 2017 NOBEL: RICHARD THALER By Kevin Bryan, A Fine Theorem (blog), October 9, 2017
• Richard Thaler: The 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 9, 2017
• Richard Thaler, Nobel winner from Chicago, fought to get heretical economic theories published By Gregory Karp, The Chicago Tribune, April 30, 2012 [Reprinted on October 9, 2017]
• How We Think About the Deficit Is Mostly Wrong by Stephanie Kelton, The New York Times, October 5, 2017
• Interview with Ricardo Hausmann: Venezuela's Economy By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 6, 2017
• Foreign Direct Investment in the US: Size and Effects By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 5, 2017
• The Gherkin Story: For Explaining Exchange Rate Risk By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), October 4, 2017
• How the New Math of Gerrymandering Works By NATE COHN and QUOCTRUNG BUI, The New York Times, OCT. 3, 2017
• Some Economics of Immigration By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, October 3, 2017
• Why don't tax cuts boost growth? By Dietrich Vollrath, Growth Economics (blog), October 3, 2017
• Tax Cuts, Sold as Fuel for Growth, Widen Gap Between Rich and Poor By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, October 3, 2017

Notable: September 2017

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• Sizing Up QE Now That It's Ended By Noah Smith, BloombergView, September 25, 2017
• Review: The Scandalous Friendship That Shaped Adam Smith By JONATHAN A. KNEE, The New York Times, SEPT. 21, 2017
• Kahneman on AI versus Humans By Joshua Gans, Digitopoly, September 22, 2017
• The Coming Bear Market? By ROBERT J. SHILLER, Project Syndicate, Sep 21, 2017 
• Why Workers Are Losing to Capitalists By Noah Smith, BloombergView, September 20, 2017
• Bump in U.S. Incomes Doesn’t Erase 50 Years of Pain By PATRICIA COHEN, The New York Times, SEPT. 16, 2017
• The midlife low in human beings By David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald, VoxEU, 16 September 2017
• In a Great Recession, the case for flexible exchange rates is alive and well By Giancarlo Corsetti, Gernot Müller, and Keith Kuester, VoxEU, 16 September 2017
• Intellectual Property Laws: Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing by Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles, Pro-Market (blog), September 15, 2017
• China Isn’t the Only Reason to Question Free Trade By Noah Smith, BloombergView, September 13, 2017
• The Collapse of Northern Rock BBC Witness, September 12, 2017
• a16z podcast on trade By Noah Smith, Noahpinion (blog), September 10, 2017
• New Rule: Fee F**king By Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO), YouTube, September 8, 2017 [Talkin' 'bout phishing.]
• A stunning new study shows that Fox News is more powerful than we ever imagined by Dylan Matthews, Vox, September 8, 2017
• Causal Friday: The Most Depressing Instrument Ever, Fox News Edition… By Jody Beggs, Economists Do It With Models (blog), September 8, 2017
• Umbrageousness By Ferdinand Mount, London Review of Books, Vol. 39 No. 17, 7 September 2017
• Free Trade With Korea Is Great for the U.S. By Noah Smith, BloombergView, September 7, 2017
• Helping people make better financial decisions: From insight to empowerment By Romesh Vaitilingam, VoxEU, 06 September 2017
• A new paradigm for the introductory course in economics By Samuel Bowles and Wendy Carlin, VoxEU, 07 September 2017
• The Limited Exposure of the US Economy to Trade By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, September 7, 2017
• To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, September 3, 2017
• As Workers Expect Less, Job Satisfaction Rises By Lauren Weber, The Wall Street Journal, September 1, 2017
• Then and Now: The Big Shift at Work By Lauren Weber and Stephanie Stamm, The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2017

Notable: August 2017

• Partition: Borders of Blood By Steve Chao, Al Jazeera, August 17, 2017
  
• Gains from trade: evidence from nineteenth century Japan By Daniel M. Bernhofen and John C. Brown, Microeconomic Insights (blog), August 30, 2017
• The Fed's Foray Into Forex By Tim Sablik, Econ Focus, federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Second Quarter, 2017
• Workers Save More for Retirement When Employers Tell Them to, Study Says The Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2017
• The financial crisis, ten years on By Stephen Cecchetti and Kim Schoenholtz, VoxEU, 29 August 2017
• How Wall Street Gets Rich Off Savers By Noah Smith, BloombergView, August 24, 2017
• The long-term benefits of quality early childcare for disadvantaged mothers and their children By Jorge Luis García, James Heckman, Duncan Ermini Leaf, and María Prados, VoxEU, 25 August 2017
• Learning from Thirty Years of Experience with Cap-and-Trade Systems By Robert Stavins, An Economic View of the Environment, August 25, 2017
• How Colleges Are Strangling Liberalism By Mark Lilla, The Chronicle of Higher Education, AUGUST 20, 2017
• What are economists for? By Christopher Snyder, LSE Business Review, August 18, 2017
• The Scotsmen Who Invented Modernity By Jacob Heilbrunn, The National Interest, August 17, 2017
• The Endowment Effect By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), August 24, 2017
• Reflections on Galbraith’s New Industrial State, 50 years later By Joshua Gans, Digitopoly (blog), August 22, 2017
• Bloomberg QuickTake: Universal Basic Income By Paula Dwyer, Bloomberg View, August 22, 2017
• Blockchain: New Frontiers By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), August 18, 2017
• Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world By Stephen Metcalf, The Guardian, August 18, 2017
• "Theory vs. Data" in statistics too By Noah Smith, Noahpinion (blog), August 17, 2017
• The 2008 Financial Crisis: How It All Began The Wall Street Journal, August 17, 2017. [A video explaining how developments at an obscure French bank in August 2007 sowed the seeds of the 2008 financial crisis.]
• The Jobs Most Segregated by Gender and Race By Justin Fox, BloombergView, August 16, 2017
• Old Ideas About Foreign Trade Are Being Retired By Noah Smith, BloombergView (blog), August 15, 2017
• THE BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMICS PARADOX Stumbling and Mumbling (blog), August 15, 2017
• The global financial cycle: Closer to an anticlimax than a juggernaut By Andrew Rose, VoxEU, 14 August 2017
• What economists study: A guide for the curious By Christopher Snyder, VoxEU, 12 August 2017
• The whys of increasing inequality: A graphical portrait By Jared Bernstein and Ben Spielberg, The Washington Post, August 14, 2017
• Straw men in the debate on basic income versus targeting By Martin Ravallion, Ideas for India (blog), August 11, 2017
• Governance and public service delivery in India By Farzana Afridi and Nalini Gulati, Ideas for India (blog), August 7, 2017
• Trilemma redux: New evidence from emerging market economies By Maurice Obstfeld, Jonathan D. Ostry, and Mahvash S. Qureshi, VoxEU, 11 August 2017
• The transmission of global financial shocks to domestic financial and macro-economic conditions, as well as to capital flows, is magnified under fixed exchange rate regimes relative to more flexible regimes.
• Healthier Workers Are More Productive, Study Finds By Lauren Weber, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2017
• What Econ 101 Can Teach Us About Artificial Intelligence By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 9, 2017
• Who Ultimately Pays for Corporate Taxes? The Answer May Color the Republican Overhaul By Richard Rubin, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 8, 2017
• Looking Back: The Financial Crisis Began 10 Years Ago This Week By Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, Money and Banking (blog), August 7, 2017
• Google Fires Engineer Who Wrote Memo Questioning Women in Tech By DAISUKE WAKABAYASHI, The New York Times, AUG. 7, 2017 [The memo is available at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-Ideological-Echo-Chamber.pdf]
• Six big ideas: Gary Becker’s concept of human capital The Economist, August 3, 2017

Notable: July 2017

• From Soviets to Oligarchs: Inequality and Property in Russia 1905-2016 By Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty, and Gabriel Zucman, Working Paper, July 29, 2017
• Did This Game Theory Expert Plot the Perfect Murder? By Steve Volk, Philadelphia Magazine, July 29, 2017
• Is the world really better than ever? By Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, July 28, 2017
• Coase’s theory of the firm By The Economist, July 27, 2017
• Slaves of Isis: the long walk of the Yazidi women By Cathy Oten, The Guardian, July 25, 2017
• How does the US healthcare system compare with other countries? By Josh Holder, Paul Torpey and Feilding Cage, The Guardian, July 25, 2017
• Minimum Wage and Job Loss: One Alarming Seattle Study Is Not the Last Word By Arindrajit Dube, The New York Times, JULY 20, 2017
• A despot in disguise: one man’s mission to rip up democracy By George Monbiot, The Guardian, July 19, 2017
• A New History of the Right Has Become an Intellectual Flashpoint By Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education, JULY 19, 2017 [On "Democracy in Chains" by Nancy MacLean.]
• HOW TO THINK LIKE AN ECONOMIST (IF, THAT IS, YOU WISH TO...) By J. Bradford DeLong, Grasping Reality with All Tentacles: bradford-delong.com (blog), July 15, 2017
• The Pricing Answer to Traffic Congestion By Timothy Taylor, The Conversable Economist, July 17, 2017
• Mirror, Mirror 2017: International Comparison Reflects Flaws and Opportunities for Better U.S. Health Care The Commonwealth Fund, July 14, 2017
• IF BORDERS WERE OPEN: THE $78 TRILLION FREE LUNCH, The Economist, July 6, 2017
• How the middle class hoards wealth and opportunity for itself By Richard Reeves, The Guardian, July 15, 2017
• Making it count: Incentives, effort, and performance in higher education By Arnaud Chevalier, Peter Dolton, and Melanie Lührmann, VoxEU, 15 July 2017
• So Many Critics of Economics Miss What It Gets Right By Noah Smith, BloombergView, July 14, 2017
• Globalisation: the rise and fall of an idea that swept the world By Nikil Saval, The Guardian, July 14, 2017
• How economics became a religion By John Rapley, The Guardian, July 11, 2017
• Formerly True Theories By Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal (blog), The New York Times, July 10, 2017
• Why doesn’t anybody know if Swachh Bharat Mission is succeeding? By Diane Coffey and Dean Spears, Ideas for India, July 10, 2017
• Why Single-Payer Health Care Saves Money By ROBERT H. FRANK, The New York Times, JULY 7, 2017
• Assessing the riskiness of capital inflows based on lender and currency By Glenn Hoggarth, Carsten Jung, and Dennis Reinhardt, VoxEU, 7 July 2017
• A review of labor market conditions The FRED Blog, July 6, 2017
• Institutions and culture co-evolve: Why the quest for the origin of prosperity is so elusive By Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier, VoxEU, 4 July 2017
• Masters of Money: Karl Marx, By Stephanie Flanders, BBC, January 30, 2016. [Stephanie Flanders examines one of the most revolutionary and controversial thinkers of all. Karl Marx's ideas left an indelible stamp on the lives of billions of people and the world we live in today. As the global financial crisis continues on its destructive path, some are starting to wonder if he was right.]
• Masters Of Money: Friedrich Hayek, By Stephanie Flanders, BBC, Aug 29, 2016. [Friedrich Hayek CH (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian and British economist and philosopher best known for his defense of classical liberalism. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with Gunnar Myrdal for his "pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and ... penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena.]
• Masters Of Money: John Maynard Keynes, By Stephanie Flanders, BBC, Mar 4, 2015. [John Maynard Keynes (John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946), one of the most influential modern Western economics economist, founded macroeconomics and Freud's psychoanalysis, created by law and love Einstein discovered the theory of relativity, together known as the three revolutions of the twentieth.]

Notable: June 2017

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• “THE DEVELOPMENT EFFECTS OF THE EXTRACTIVE COLONIAL ECONOMY,” M. DELL & B. OLKEN (2017) By Kevin Bryan, A Fine Theorem (blog), June 22, 2017
• W. Arthur Lewis and the tradeoffs of economics and economists By Ravi Kanbur, VoxEU, June 25, 2017
• Why I left physics for economics By Arthur Turrell, The Guardian, 22 June 2017
• Unions in Decline: Some International Comparisons By Timothy  Taylor, The Conversable Economist (blog), June 20, 2017
• “The Blockchain Is Going to Revolutionize Central Banking and Monetary Policy” By David Yermack, Pro Market (blog), June 19, 2017
• The border adjustment tax By Mary Amiti, Emmanuel Farhi, Gita Gopinath, and Oleg Itskhoki, VoxEU, 19 June 2017
• An Update on Foreign Direct Investment By Timothy  Taylor, The Conversable Economist (blog), June 16, 2017
• When Currencies Fall, Export Growth Is Supposed to Follow—Until Now By Christopher Whittall and Mike Bird, The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2017
• The Amazing Arab Scholar Who Beat Adam Smith by Half a Millennium By Dániel Oláh, Evonomics (blog), June 11, 2017
• A manifesto for economic research in Europe By Marc Ivaldi, VoxEU, June 8, 2017
• A primer on Dodd-Frank’s Orderly Liquidation Authority By Aaron Klein, Up Front (blog), Brookings Institution, June 5, 2017
• Labor's Declining Share: A Primer By Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, Money and Banking (blog), June 5, 2017
• A Tax Cut Might Be Nice. But Remember the Deficit. By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, June 2, 2017
• Interview with Hilary Hoynes By DOUGLAS CLEMENT, The Region, June 1, 2017
• Most of India’s state-owned firms are ripe for sale or closure, The Economist, June 1, 2017