Notable: April 2020

• What’s a Pulse Oximeter, and Do I Really Need One at Home?  By Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times, April 24, 2020
• A mysterious blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients  By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post, April 22, 2020
•  No need to wipe down food packaging during coronavirus pandemic, FDA says  by Madeline Farber, Fox News, April 17, 2020
• With Antibody Tests, Germany Seeks Path Out of Lockdown  By Katrin Bennhold, The New York Times, April 19, 2020
• C.D.C. Labs Were Contaminated, Delaying Coronavirus Testing, Officials Say  By Sheila Kaplan, The New York Times, April 19, 2020
• Coronavirus Testing Needs to Triple Before the U.S. Can Reopen, Experts Say By Keith Collins, The New York Times, April 17, 2020
• Is the Virus on My Clothes? My Shoes? My Hair? My Newspaper?  By Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times, April 17, 2020
• Trump’s Good Friday tweet shows his ignorance about Christianity  By Amy Sullivan, The Washington Post, April 12, 2020
• Why starchy processed food causes us to overeat, gain weight and become ill  By Marlene Cimons, The Washington Post, April 11, 2020
• Conservatives Have Been Suppressing the Vote for 150 Years By David W. Blight, The New York Times, April 11, 2020
• Trump Wants 50 Wisconsins on Election Day By Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times, April 10, 2020
• American Democracy May Be Dying By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, April 9, 2020
• Stuck Inside? Keep Walking  By Gretchen Reynolds, The New York Times, April 1, 2020
• The U.S. was beset by denial and dysfunction as the coronavirus raged  By Yasmeen Abutaleb, Josh Dawsey, Ellen Nakashima and Greg Miller, The Washington Post, April 4, 2020
• America was unprepared for a major crisis. Again.  By Dan Balz, The Washington Poat, April 4, 2020
• Thousands of Zoom video calls left exposed on open Web  By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post, April 3, 2020
• How to protect your Zoom calls By Drew Harwell, The Washington Post, April 3, 2020

Notable: March 2020

• Who Knew Grocery Shopping Could Be So Stressful?  By Tara Parker-Pope, The New York Times, March 26, 2020
• How to Get More Sleep Tonight  By Adam Popescu, The New York Times, March 25, 2020
• What Is a College Education in the Time of Coronavirus? By Richard Arum and Mitchell L. Stevens, The New York Times, March 18, 2020
• Reconstruction in Europe: a Guardian guide – archive, 1922 Compiled by Richard Nelsson, The Guardian, March 4, 2021
  

Notable: February 2020

• William James, Yoga and the Secret of Happiness  By John Kaag, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 27, 2020
• Putting Liberal Arts Programs on Ice  By Elizabeth Redden, Inside Higher Ed, February 25, 2020
• Faculty at Long Island University have raised concerns about a decision to freeze new enrollments in a number of liberal arts programs.
• Education May Be Key for a Longer Life  By Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times, Feb. 25, 2020
• Could micro-credentials compete with traditional degrees?  By Anisa Purbasari Horton, BBC Worklife, 17th February 2020
• Advances in plumbing technology make leaks less likely By Tim Carter, The Washington Post, Feb. 4, 2020

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

Notable: December 2019

• The best work on political economy in 2019  by Daniel Drezner, The Washington Post, December 31, 2019
• The Solow Model: is it the GOAT?  by Arnold Kling, askblog, December 30, 2019
• In the U.S., an Angioplasty Costs $32,000. Elsewhere? Maybe $6,400.  By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Dec. 27, 2019
• Surprise Exception to the Global Manufacturing Slowdown: Greece  By Sarah Chaney and Soo Oh, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 22, 2019
• The big economic lessons of the decade  By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, Dec. 23, 2019
• Bayes theorem, and making probability intuitive  3Blue1Brown, YouTube, December 22, 2019
• The quick proof of Bayes' theorem  3Blue1Brown, YouTube, December 22, 2019
• ‘It’s depressing, isn’t it?’: With little protest, GOP succumbs to Trump on spending  By Robert Costa, The Washington Post, Dec. 19, 2019
• The intellectual spoils of war: How government spending on defence research benefits the private sector  By Enrico Moretti, Claudia Steinwender, John Van Reenen, VoxEU, 18 December 2019
• Macroeconomic frameworks  By Alan Auerbach, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Daniel Murphy, VoxEU, 18 December 2019
• Corporations paid 11.3 percent tax rate last year, in steep drop under President Trump’s law  By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, Dec. 16, 2019
• Banks do not create money out of thin air  By  Pontus Rendahl and Lukas B. Freund, VoxEU, 14 December 2019
• A Data Big Bang  by Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman, The Indian Express, December 9, 2019
• The massive triumph of the rich, illustrated by stunning new data  By Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, Dec. 9, 2019
• The Afghanistan Papers A secret history of the war At war with the truth  By Craig Whitlock, The Washigton Post, Dec. 9, 2019
• Immigration Quotas of 1920s Failed to Aid U.S.-Born Workers’ Pay  By Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg, December 9, 2019
• Finland Is a Capitalist Paradise By Anu Partanen and Trevor Corson, The New York Times, Dec. 7, 2019
• GDP Doesn’t Include Proceeds of Crime. Should It?  By Jo Craven McGinty, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 6, 2019
• How a Strong Job Market Has Proved the Experts Wrong  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Dec. 6, 2019
•  2 Nobel-winning economists speak out on our big economic problem: not enough immigration  By Dylan Matthews, vox.com, Dec 6, 2019
• Administrative assistant jobs helped propel many women into the middle class. Now they’re disappearing.  By Heather Long, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• The one surprising thing the Trump administration got right on health care  By Steven Pearlstein, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• Gilead delayed safer HIV drug to extend monopoly profits, advocates allege  By Christopher Rowland, The Washington Post, Dec. 5, 2019
• Could Tax Increases Speed Up the Economy? Democrats Say Yes  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Dec. 5, 2019
• What would happen if we randomly gave $1,000 to poor families? Now we know. By Francisco Toro, The Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2019
• Watch 4 Decades of Inequality Drive American Cities Apart  By Emily Badger and Kevin Quealy, The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2019
• Against Economics by David Graeber, The New York Review of Books, December 5, 2019. [Review of Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics by Robert Skidelsky]
• Yes, Americans are feeling the squeeze. It’s coming from health care.  by Robert Samuelson, The Washington Post, December 1, 2019

Notable: November 2019

• When a Disappointment Helped Lead to a Nobel Prize  By Seema Jayachandran, The New York Times, Nov. 29, 2019
• From local to global: A unified theory of public basic research  by  Hans Gersbach, Ulrich Schetter, Samuel Schmassmann, VoxEU, 28 November 2019
• Will the U.S. Bring Down the WTO?  By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2019
• The ‘crisis of capitalism’ is not the one Europeans think it is   by Branko Milanović, The Guardian, November 27, 2019
• The Horrible History of Thanksgiving  By Charles M. Blow, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2019
• The Vicious Reality Behind the Thanksgiving Myth  By David J. Silverman, The New York Times, Nov. 27, 2019
• The 10 Best Books of 2019  The New York Times, November 22, 2019
• 100 Notable Books of 2019  The New York Times, November 22, 2019
• The Jim Crow South? No, Long Island Today  By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Nov. 21, 2019
•  Economic Security Programs Cut Poverty Nearly in Half Over Last 50 Years  by Danilo Trisi and Matt Saenz, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, November 26, 2019
• Meet the Leftish Economist With a New Story About Capitalism  By Katy Lederer, The New York Times, Nov. 26, 2019
• The Graphic Novel Versions of Literary Classics Used to Seem Lowbrow. No More.  By Hillary Chute, The New York Times, Nov. 12, 2019
• Will Science Ever Give Us a Better Night’s Sleep?  By Kim Tingley, The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 19, 2019
• The Life and Death of the Local Hardware Store  By Tim Wu, The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2019
• Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project  By William J. Broad, The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2019
• Wealth taxes often failed in Europe. They wouldn’t here.  By Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez, The Washington Post, Oct. 25, 2019
• Which College Graduates Make the Most?  By Josh Mitchell, Andrea Fuller and Michelle Hackman, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 20, 2019
• Trump’s tax ‘reform’ might have backfired  By Robert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post, November 19, 2019
• Americans have questions about Medicare-for-all. Canadians have answers.  By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington Post, November 19, 2019
• General election 2019: How much tax do British people pay?  By Helen Miller, BBC News, 19 November 2019
•  One Explanation for Weak Wage Growth: Workers’ Reluctance to Switch Jobs  By Tom Fairless, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 17, 2019
•  ‘Good Economics for Hard Times’ Review: Sticky Markets, Tricky Solutions  By William Easterly, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 17, 2019
• Review of “Good Economics for Hard Times,” by  Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
• The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann  By Jørgen Veisdal, Medium, Nov 11, 2019
• Long Island Divided  By Ann Choi, Keith Herbert, Olivia Winslow
  and project editor Arthur Browne, Newsday, Nov. 17, 2019
• Raise Billions From Billionaires? Tax Experts Say It’s Not That Simple  By Paul Sullivan, The New York Times, Nov. 15, 2019
• How FedEx Cut Its Tax Bill to $0  By Jim Tankersley, Peter Eavis and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, Nov. 17, 2019
• Nobel prize-winning economist Esther Duflo: 'You have no reason to fear low-skilled migration'  Channel 4 News, YouTube, November 13, 2019
• Is surge pricing the fairest way to manage demand?  by Tim Harford, BBC, November 12, 2019
• Reflections on My Decision to Change Gender  by Deirdre McCloskey, Quillette, November 10, 2019
• Esther Duflo, Nobel Prize-winning economist  BBC HARDtalk, YouTube, November 8, 2019
• How Is a Wealth Tax Like a Cigarette Tax?  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Nov. 5, 2019
• Here’s how Warren’s plan would make it nearly impossible for U.S. businesses to stash profits overseas  By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, November 5, 2019
• Are We in a Recession? Experts Agree: Ask Claudia Sahm By Kate Davidson, The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2019
• In the Amazon, Fires Steal Breath, but Smoke Smells of Money  By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2019
• What Could Come Between These Two Allies? A $100 Jar of Honey  By Jamie Tarabay, The New York Times, Nov. 2, 2019
• The Money Farmers: How Oligarchs and Populists Milk the E.U. for Millions  By Selam Gebrekidan, Matt Apuzzo and Benjamin Novak, The New York Times, Nov. 3, 2019
• 39 Vietnamese Died in a U.K. Truck. 18,000 More Endure This Perilous Trip. By Benjamin Mueller, The New York Times, Published Nov. 1, 2019

Notable: October 2019

• Rawls & Theodicy  By Samuel Moyn, Commonweal, October 30, 2019
• What John Rawls Missed  By Jedediah Britton-Purdy, The New Republic, October 29, 2019
• Savoring the Taste of Memories in Northern India  By Romy Gill, The New York Times, Oct. 28, 2019
• Indian Economic Reform: Much More Than You Wanted To Know  by Scott Alexander, Slate Star Codex (blog), October 23, 2019
• How to Get a Better Deal From a Real Estate Agent  By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, Oct. 24, 2019
•  Make no mistake: Medicare for All would cut taxes for most Americans  By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The Guardian, 25 Oct 2019
• How liberalism became ‘the god that failed’ in eastern Europe  By Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes, The Guardian, Ocober 24, 2019
• Economists rush to help Sen. Elizabeth Warren solve Medicare-for-all tax puzzle  By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, Oct. 24, 2019
• Climate Change Will Cost Us Even More Than We Think  By Naomi Oreskes and Nicholas Stern, The New York Times, Oct. 23, 2019
• Are Liberal Arts Colleges Doomed?  By Eliza Gray, The Washington Post Magazine, October 21, 2019
• Who tips best on Uber? Economists analyzed 40 million trips  By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, Oct. 22, 2019
• The French Economist Who Helped Invent Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax  By Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, October 19, 2019
• We Don’t Need to Raise Taxes to Have ‘Medicare for All’  By Lindsay Koshgarian, The New York Times, OCT. 17, 2019
• Lessons from Mexico’s poverty reduction programme  VoxDev, October 9, 2019
• Socialism doesn’t work? An emerging middle class of Bolivians would beg to differ.  By Anthony Faiola, The Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2019
• Americans already pay a ‘gigantic’ hidden health-care tax, economists say  By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2019
• The Should-Be Solution to the Student-Debt Problem  By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, Oct. 13, 2019
• Should We Soak the Rich? You Bet!  By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2019
• Why U.S. Businesses Want Trustbusting  By Matt Stoller, The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 11, 2019
• How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice  By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, Oct. 11, 2019
• Bad company: The astonishing and violent rise of the East India Company  The Economist, October 12, 2019
• Review of "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company" By William Dalrymple.
• What Trump’s Aggressive Trade Tactics Have Achieved  By Veronique de Rugy, The New York Times, Oct. 7, 2019
• An economic crisis in your teens can alter your behavior for life, economists find By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, Oct. 4, 2019