Notable: May 2019

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• The Bond Market Is Trying to Tell Us Something (Worry)  By Matt Phillips and Stephen Grocer, The New York Times, May 30, 2019
• Unhappy With Findings, Agriculture Department Plans to Move Its Economists Out of Town  By Alan Rappeport and Thomas Kaplan, The New York Times, May 30, 2019
• Modern U.S. antitrust theory and evidence amid rising concerns of market power and its effects  by Fiona Scott Morton, Equitable Growth, May 29, 2019
• The Bond Market Is Giving Ominous Warnings About the Global Economy  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, May 29, 2019
• Rise in Unruly Behavior on Planes Is Tied to Stress of Flying  By Amy Zipkin, The New York Times, May 27, 2019
• The radical plan to change how Harvard teaches economics  by  Dylan Matthews, Vox.com, May 22, 2019
• A Tale of Two Yield Curves  By Daniel Kruger, The Wall Street Journal, May 21, 2019
• The Economy Is Strong. So Why Do So Many Americans Still Feel at Risk?  By Jacob S. Hacker, The New York Times, May 21, 2019
• Masters of Austrian Economics #3: Ludwig von Mises  by Academic Agent, YouTube, May 26, 2019
• Masters of Austrian Economics #2: Eugen Böhm-Bawerk  by Academic Agent, YouTube, May 20, 2019
• Masters of Austrian Economics #1: Carl Menger by Academic Agent, YouTube, May 17, 2019
• Even Harvard Is Now Teaching Personal Finance By Julia Carpenter, The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2019
• Resistance to Noncompete Agreements Is a Win for Workers By Harriet Torry, The Wall Street Journal, May 18, 2019 
• Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say  By Anatoly Kurmanaev, The New York Times, May 17, 2019
• Killing the Pax Americana by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 11, 2019
• Trump Is Terrible for Rural America  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, May 9, 2019
• Eric Hobsbawm, the Communist Who Explained History By Corey Robin, The New Yorker, May 9, 2019
  
• The Economics of Kenneth J. Arrow: A Selective Review  by Eric Maskin,  Annual Review of Economics, Vol. 11:1-26 (Volume publication date August 2019). First published as a Review in Advance on May 6, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-080218-030323
• A Tax That Could Fix Big Tech  By Paul Romer, The New York Times, May 6, 2019
• Putting a levy on targeted ad revenue would give Facebook and Google a real incentive to change their dangerous business models.
• Under Narendra Modi, India’s ruling party poses a threat to democracy by The Economist, May 2, 2019
• Nationalist fervour is likely to secure a second term for Narendra Modi by The Economist, May 2, 2019
• Emi Nakamura wins the John Bates Clark medal by The Economist, May 2, 2019
• A Rare Prize for an Economist Looking at the Big Picture by Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, May 1, 2019

Notable: April 2019

• Wynton Marsalis on 12 Essential Jazz Recordings  by Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, April 29, 2019
• Emi Nakamura, Clark Medalist 2019 American Economic Association Honors and Awards Committee, April 2019
• Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides: Increase the minimum wage By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, April 30, 2019
• Japan Is Giving Up on Activist Monetary Policy  By Mike Bird, The Wall Street Journal, April 26, 2019
•  5 Reasons to Reject Any Constitutional Balanced Budget Amendment  By Richard Kogan, off the charts (blog), Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, April 29, 2019
•  Recession Graduates: The Long-lasting Effects of an Unlucky Draw  By Hannes Schwandt, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, April 2019.
• Women Did Everything Right. Then Work Got ‘Greedy.’  By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, April 26, 2019
• Where Are the Socially Conservative Women in This Fight?  By Helen Andrews, The New York Times, April 27, 2019
• Splat! Bam! It’s the Federal Reserve to the Rescue  By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, April 26, 2019
• The Truth About Jobs in India  By Shamika Ravi, Bloomberg Opinion, April 16, 2019
• Why Has Australia Fallen Out of Love With Immigration?  By Damien Cave and Isabella Kwai, The New York Times, April 22, 2019
• What Can the U.S. Health System Learn From Singapore?  By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, April 22, 2019
• Inequality Will Eventually Hurt the Rich, Too  By Michael Pettis, Barron's, April 18, 2019
• Progressive Capitalism Is Not an Oxymoron By Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times, April 19, 2019
• A smarter way to think about willpower  By Angela Duckworth, Katherine Milkman and David Laibson, The Washington Post, April 17, 2019
• Inequality Fuels Rage of ‘Yellow Vests’ in Equality-Obsessed France By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, April 15, 2019
• Government to Measure Who Gets What Share of the Economic Pie By David Harrison, The Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2019
• Modern Monetary Theory, explained By Dylan Matthews, Vox.com, Apr 16, 2019 
• Keep the Federal Reserve I Love Alive  By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, April 11, 2019
• One Man vs. McKinsey: A Billionaire Says the Consultancy Has Rigged the Bankruptcy System  By Mary Williams Walsh, The New York Times, April 11, 2019
• Everyone’s Income Taxes Should Be Public  By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, April 13, 2019
• Twitter thread on the politics of climate change legislation
• College Grads Sell Stakes in Themselves to Wall Street By Claire Boston, Bloomberg Businessweek, April 9, 2019
• Instead of taking out loans, students can agree to hand over part of their future earnings in return for investment.
• DEADLY GERMS, LOST CURES In a Poor Kenyan Community, Cheap Antibiotics Fuel Deadly Drug-Resistant Infections By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, April 6, 2019
• Overuse of the medicines is not just a problem in rich countries. Throughout the developing world antibiotics are dispensed with no prescription required.
• DEADLY GERMS, LOST CURES A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy By Matt Richtel and Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, April 6, 2019
• The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.
• You Are Not as Good at Kissing as You Think. But You Are Better at Dancing. By Spencer Greenberg and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times, April 6, 2019 
• State regulation in India – the art of rolling over rather than rolling back  by Devesh Kapur and Madhav Khosla, The Print, 4 April, 2019
• Winning the War on Poverty  By David Brooks, The New York Times, April 4, 2019
• These Countries Have Prices on Carbon. Are They Working?  By BRAD PLUMER and NADJA POPOVICH, The New York Times, APRIL 2, 2019
• Beware Algorithms That Could Collude on Prices  By Matthew Kassel, The Wall Street Journal, April 1, 2019 [In a study, two pricing algorithms learned on their own to raise prices together to unfairly high levels.]
• Congestion Pricing: N.Y. Embraced It. Will Other Clogged Cities Follow? By Winnie Hu, The New York Times, April 1, 2019

Notable: March 2019

• For Some in Japan, Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt Doesn’t Sound So Bad  By Megumi Fujikawa and Kosaku Narioka, The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2019 [The IMF puts Japan’s debt at roughly 240% of GDP, but an antiausterity movement there argues now is the time to borrow more.]
•  Examining an MMT model in detail  by Noah Smith, Noahpinion (blog), March 31, 2019
• Modern Monetary Theory Makes Sense, Up to a Point  By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, March 29, 2019
•  How the rich, the poor and the rest of us make and spend our money  By Shawn Langlois, MarketWatch, March 21, 2019
• The most consequential, and least informed, decision that college students make  By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, March 29, 2019
• The Costs of Inflation  by Miles Kimball, Confessions of a Supply-Side Liberal, March 28, 2019
• How high can Britain’s minimum wage go?  The Economist, March 28, 2019
• Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)  By Charlotte Lieberman, The New York Times, March 25, 2019
• Medicare for All Would Abolish Private Insurance. ‘There’s No Precedent in American History.’ By Reed Abelson and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, March 23, 2019
• Don’t Make Health Care a Purity Test  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 21, 2019
• Why Should Americans Be Grateful for $137 Insulin? Germans Get It for $55  By Elisabeth Rosenthal, The New York Times, March 21, 2019
• What are central banks for?  by Adam Tooze, Social Europe, on 18th March 2019
• You Never Know When a Recession Will Sneak Up on You  By Austan Goolsbee, The New York Times, March 15, 2019
• How Much Does Getting Into an Elite College Actually Matter? By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, March 15, 2019
• Don’t Blame Robots for Low Wages by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 14, 2019 
• Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists  By Lydia DePillis, CNN Business, March 13, 2019
• Hong Kong Spends Nearly $700 Million to Bolster Currency  By Saumya Vaishampayan, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2019
• Long-Classified Memo Surfaces Warning of ‘Perfect Storm’ From Invading Iraq  By Warren P. Strobel, The Wall Street Journal, March 13, 2019
• British Panel Calls for Stricter Antitrust Rules on Tech Giants  By Adam Satariano, The New York Times, March 12, 2019
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• Lessons from the East Asian Economic Miracle   by Byrne Hobart, Medium, March 11, 2019
•  Workers suddenly have more power to demand higher pay and better jobs  By Heather Long, The Washington Post, March 8, 2019
• Spain’s Minimum Wage Just Jumped. The Debate Is Continuing.  By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, March 7, 2019
• Why Trump’s Effort to Narrow the Trade Gap Has Flopped So Far By Josh Zumbrun, The Wall Street Journal, March 2, 2019
• How Goes the Trade War?  By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 3, 2019
• Suggests that the US is the proverbial "small country" of trade theory
• A Well-Meaning Job Training Bill That May Hurt More Than Help By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, March 1, 2019
• Paul Krugman Asked Me About Modern Monetary Theory. Here Are 4 Answers. by Stephanie Kelton, Bloomberg Opinion, March 1, 2019
• Krugman's response, Twitter thread 

Notable: February 2019

• How Political Science Became Irrelevant By Michael C. Desch, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 2019
• Is Your Rent Through the Roof? Oregon Wants to Fix That By Timothy Williams, The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2019
• How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Deficits and Debt by Neil Irwin, The New York Times, February 23, 2019.
• Lessons from the Recovery Act on its 10-year anniversary by Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, February 18, 2019
• The Economic Gains (Yes, Gains) of a Liberal Arts Education By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed, February 15, 2019
• Richard Rorty’s prescient warnings for the American left By Sean Illing, Vox, February 2, 2019

Notable: January 2019

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• Wealth Tax by @Noahpinion, Twitter, January 31, 2019 
• A Murky Arms Deal Haunts Modi  by N. Ram, The New York Times, January 30, 2019
• Principles of tax design, public policy and beyond: The ideas of James Mirrlees, 1936-2018  by
  Richard Blundell and Ian Preston, VoxEU.org, 25 January 2019
• The wheel of history: Max Weber’s enduring wisdom  The Economist, January 24, 2019
•  The End of Economics?  by Fareed Zakaria, Foreign Policy, January 25, 2019
• Has economics failed us? Hardly. by Lawrence H. Summers, The Washington Post, January 25, 2019
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Tax Hike Idea Is Not About Soaking the Rich  by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, January 22, 2019
• By Popular Demand: What Is “Modern Monetary Theory”? by Brad DeLong, January 21, 2019
• What If Everyone Got a Monthly Check From the Government?  By Claire Suddath, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 11, 2019
• Economists reconsider how much governments can borrow  The Economist, January 17, 2019
• How behavioural economics helped kick my phone addiction  By Tim Harford, The Financial Times Magazine, January 16, 2019
• Robotic Milkers and an Automated Greenhouse: Inside a High-Tech Small Farm  By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, January 13, 2019
• What if Cities Are No Longer the Land of Opportunity for Low-Skilled Workers?  By Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui, The New York Times, Jan. 11, 2019
• It’s Official: The Trump Tax Cuts Didn’t Pay for Themselves in Year One
  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Jan. 11, 2019
•  How Aging Japan Defied Demographics and Revived Its Economy  By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2019
• The Shutdown Isn’t the Only Threat to the Economy By Sheila C. Bair and Gaurav Vasisht, The New York Times, January 10, 2019
• Greece’s Great Hemorrhaging  By Nikos Konstandaras, The New York Times, January 10, 2019
• How Americans became addicted to undocumented immigration By Julia G. Young, The Washington Post, January 9, 2019
• No Tuition, but You Pay a Percentage of Your Income (if You Find a Job)  by
  Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times, Jan. 8, 2019
• Seven questions for Janet Yellen on financial stability  Up Front (blog), Brookings, January 3, 2019
• How will central bankers cope when the next recession comes?  By Kenneth Rogoff, The Guardian, January 7, 2019
• Trump Has Promised to Bring Jobs Back. His Tariffs Threaten to Send Them Away.  By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, Jan. 6, 2019
• Debate: Guha’s Story of Gandhi in South Africa Does Not Square With the Record By Ashwin Desai, The Wire, January 6, 2019 
• This is a response to Setting the Record Straight on Gandhi and Race by Ramachandra Guha, The Wire, December 23, 2018
• A Trump County Confronts the Administration Amid a Rash of Child Cancers  By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, January 2, 2019
• The Trump Tax Cut: Even Worse Than You’ve Heard By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 1, 2019

Notable: December 2018

• The deep roots of development - Part 1  By Dietrich Vollrath (growthecon.com), December 31, 2018
•  The best work on political economy in 2018  By Daniel Drezner, The Washington Post, December 31, 2018
• Why the World Needs to Rethink Retirement  By Katie Robertson, The New York Times, Dec. 4, 2018
• New Life for Old Classics, as Their Copyrights Run Out By Alexandra Alter, The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2018
• Twitter thread on Trump's corporate tax cut By Jared Bernstein, December 28, 2018
• Bad Faith, Pathos and G.O.P. Economics By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 27, 2018
• ‘This is our reality now.’ The New York Times, December 27, 2018
• Twitter Thread By Paul Krugman, December 26, 2018
• The Case for a Mixed Economy By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 22, 2018
• Did Economist James M. Buchanan Support "Massive Resistance" to School Desegregation? By Art Carden, Forbes, December 21, 2018
• Lottery-Like Prizes Coax Savings. What’s the Risk in Expanding Them? By Seema Jayachandran, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2018
• Japan Finally Concedes Its Crazy Low Prices Can’t Be Beat By Megumi Fujikawa, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 21, 2018
• What You Can Learn From One of Warren Buffett’s Smartest Investors By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 21, 2018
• Did This Health Care Policy Do Harm? By Rishi K. Wadhera, Karen E. Joynt Maddox and Robert W. Yeh, The New York Times, December 21, 2018
• Where Government Is a Dirty Word, but Its Checks Pay the Bills By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, Dec. 21, 2018
• Hard-Money Men, Suddenly Going Soft By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 20, 2018
• The Fed’s Risky Plan to Boost Unemployment By Narayana Kocherlakota, BloombergOpinion, December 19, 2018
• Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise, Podcast interview of Kahneman by Tyler Cowen, December 19, 2018
• Remaking Economics: Series of Articles: 
• The re-education of Economics 101 By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 15, 2018
• The dismal cost of economics’ lack of racial diversity By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 16, 2018
• The reinvention of economics after the crash By Eshe Nelson, Quartz, December 18, 2018
• How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments By Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, The New York Times, Dec. 15, 2018
• The Hutchins Center Explains: Federal budget basics By Anna Malinovskaya and Louise Sheiner, Up Front (blog), Brookings,December 13, 2018
• Out of Power? Political Capture of the Indian Electricity Sector -- Guest post by Meera Mahadevan  Development Impact, December 12, 2018
• Don’t Fall for Facebook’s ‘China Argument’ By Tim Wu, The New York Times, December 10, 2018
• America’s global dominance in technology requires fierce competition at home, not the coddling of monopolies.

Notable: November 2018

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• Failed tax-cut experiment in Kansas should guide national leaders BY HEATHER BOUSHEY, The Hill, 11/29/18
• Consumer Beware: With Less Trade Comes Less Choice By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 28, 2018
• The Monopolization of America By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, Nov. 25, 2018
• 100 Notable Books of 2018, by the editors of The New York Times Book Review, November 19, 2018, 
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; The World, Built by China By DEREK WATKINS, K.K. REBECCA LAI and KEITH BRADSHER, The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; How China Is Rewriting Its Own Script By AMY QIN and AUDREY CARLSEN, The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2018
• China Rules, How China became a superpower: How China Took Over Your TV By QUOCTRUNG BUI and SUI-LEE WEE, The New York Times, June 1, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; How China Made Its Own Internet By RAYMOND ZHONG, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; The American Dream Is Alive. In China. By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ and QUOCTRUNG BUI, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2018
• China Rules; How China became a superpower; Part 1; The Land That Failed to Fail By PHILIP P. PAN, The New York Times, NOV. 18, 2018
• Economic Liberty Turns Vice Into Virtue By Stephen Miller, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 14, 2018 [Recalling Bernard Mandeville]
• The Tax Cut and the Balance of Payments (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 14, 2018
• What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick? By Gary Greenberg, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 7, 2018. [New research is zeroing in on a biochemical basis for the placebo effect — possibly opening a Pandora’s box for Western medicine.]
• Recommended Reading on Economic Growth By Patrick Collison, November 2018
• The Perversion of Fiscal Policy (Slightly Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 2, 2018
• Why the FTC Should Focus on Labor Monopsony By Eric Posner, Pro Market (blog), November 5, 2018
• Why it can be rational to vote By Andrew Gelman, The Washington Post, November 4, 2018
• What 52,000 Percent Inflation Can Do to a Country By Brook Larmer, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 1, 2018
• The path to economic development is growing more treacherous, again The Economist, November 1, 2018