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

Notable: October 2018

• How California has become a national battleground for rent control as money flows in from landlords By LIAM DILLON, The Los Angeles Times, OCT 31, 2018
• Dueling Economists: Rival Analyses of Harvard’s Admissions Process Emerge at Trial By Eric Hoover, The Chronicle of Higher Education, OCTOBER 30, 2018
• Confused by Nutrition Research? Sloppy Science May Be to Blame By Jane E. Brody, The New York Times, Oct. 29, 2018
• Best Way to Fight Climate Change? Put an Honest Price on Carbon, The New York Times, October 29, 2018
• Are the Danes Melancholy? Are the Swedes Sad? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 27, 2018
• They Said Seattle’s Higher Base Pay Would Hurt Workers. Why Did They Flip? By Noam Scheiber, The New York Times, October 22, 2018
• Op-Ed: The economics Nobel went to a guy who enabled climate change denial and delay  By Eugene Linden, Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2018
• ‘Don’t Get Too Excited’ About Medicare for All By Elisabeth Rosenthal and Shefali Luthra, The New York Times, October 19, 2018
• What does economic evidence tell us about the effects of rent control? By Rebecca Diamond, Brookings (blog), October 18, 2018
• Why the Developing World Started Gaining on the West by Noah Smith, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, October 18, 2018 
• Convergence, Big Time by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 17, 2018
• California Tenants Take Rent Control Fight to the Ballot Box By Conor Dougherty, The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2018
• Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? By David Gal, The New York Times, Oct. 6, 2018
• Surprising Truths About Trade Deficits By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, October 5, 2018
• Status goods change over time By Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 5, 2018.
• Can my brain cure my back pain? By Michael Mosley, Horizon, BBC, 4 October 2018
• Can ‘Nudges’ Make Students Study More? Maybe Someday By Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed, October 3, 2018

Notable: September 2018

• The Economic Future Isn’t What It Used to Be (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 30, 2018
• More Evidence That Nutrition Studies Don’t Always Add Up By Anahad O’Connor, The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2018
• Dowries a major contributor to India's gender imbalance, researchers find By Rebecca Ratcliffe, The Guardian, 28 Sep 2018

• Political party vying in Quebec election promises to kick out immigrants who fail ‘values test’ By Amanda Coletta, The Washington Post, September 28, 2018
• How do you solve catastrophic hyperinflation? By Pablo Uchoa, BBC World Service, September 22, 2018
• Sweden: Lessons for America? (Video)  By Johan Norberg, Free to Choose Network, September 21, 2018
• A top Cornell food researcher has had 13 studies retracted. That’s a lot., By Brian Resnick and Julia Belluz, Vox, Sep 19, 2018
• Financial Times videos marking the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Great Recession:
• Financial crisis explained: how did it happen?
• Financial crisis explained: who benefited from the crisis?
• Financial crisis explained: what is the subprime of our decade?
• Financial crisis explained: the most important lessons learned
• The Human Promise of the AI Revolution By Kai-Fu Lee, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 14, 2018
• Deficit hawks are dead, and few in Washington can muster any outrage By Paul Kane, The Washington Post, September 15, 2018
• Walter Mischel, 88, Psychologist Famed for Marshmallow Test, Dies By Benedict Carey, The New York Times, Sept. 14, 2018
• Walter Mischel, psychologist who created ‘marshmallow test,’ dies at 88 By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, September 14, 2018
• Liberalism: The Economist at 175, The Economist, September 13, 2018
• The Economist at 175 A manifesto for renewing liberalism, The Economist, September 13, 2018
• The rise and fall of an alchemical Scottish economist, The Economist, September 13, 2018
• Lehman ten years on: more has changed than meets the eye, The Economist, September 6, 2018
• The world has not learned the lessons of the financial crisis, The Economist, September 6, 2018
• America’s recovery breeds complacency about macroeconomic risks, The Economist, September 6, 2018
• Unions in the 21st century: A potent weapon against inequality By Jared Bernstein and
  Dean Baker, The Washington Post, September 3, 2018
• Companies Say Trump Is Hurting Business by Limiting Legal Immigration By Nelson D. Schwartz and Steve Lohr, The New York Times, Sept. 2, 2018

Notable: August 2018

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• Central bankers grapple with the changing nature of competition, The Economist, August 30, 2018
• Rawls rules: Three post-war liberals strove to establish the meaning of freedom, The Economist, August 30, 2018
• John Law: the 18th-century Scot who became richer than the king of France BY LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT, New Statesman, August 29, 2018
• The remarkable story of how John Law transformed the French economy after establishing a national bank.
• Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They’d Get Away With It By Jesse Eisinger, The New York Times, August 24, 2018
• Money Really Does Lead to a More Satisfying Life By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, August 24, 2018
• Governments need better ways to manage migration The Economist, August 23, 2018
• Hayek, Popper and Schumpeter formulated a response to tyranny The Economist, August 23, 2018
• What a rising current-account surplus means for the euro area The Economist, August 23, 2018
• Greece’s Bailouts End, but Its Prospects Still Look Grim By Yannis Palaiologos, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 19, 2018
• Greece’s Bailout Is Ending. The Pain Is Far From Over. By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, August 19, 2018
• Was John Maynard Keynes a liberal? The Economist, August 18, 2018
• Productivity and wages: What’s the connection?  By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, August 14, 2018
• How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, August 7, 2018
• Notes on a Butter Republic By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 5, 2018
• Apple’s $1 Trillion Milestone Reflects Rise of Powerful Megacompanies By Matt Phillips, The New York Times, Aug. 2, 2018

Notable: July 2018

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• How the Suffrage Movement Betrayed Black Women By Brent Staples, The New York Times, July 28, 2018
• Learning the Right Lessons From the Financial Crisis by N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, July 27, 2018.
• How Consumers Can Resist Companies’ Market Power By Austan Goolsbee, The New York Times, July 20, 2018
• The Trump administration’s new poverty report builds a phony rationale to punish the poor by By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, July 16, 2018
• Psychology Itself Is Under Scrutiny By Benedict Carey, The New York Times, July 16, 2018
• Many famous studies of human behavior cannot be reproduced. Even so, they revealed aspects of our inner lives that feel true.
• Has Greece finally escaped the grip of catastrophe? By Helena Smith, The Guardian, July 15, 2018
• 7 Fast-Food Chains to End ‘No Poach’ Deals That Lock Down Low-Wage Workers By Rachel Abrams, The New York Times, July 12, 2018
• Trump Should Just Give People Money By Annie Lowrey, The New York Times, July 7, 2018
• High-Skilled White-Collar Work? Machines Can Do That, Too By Noam Scheiber, The New York Times, July 7, 2018
• Fresh Proof That Strong Unions Help Reduce Income Inequality By Susan Dynarsky, The New York Times, July 6, 2018
• Understanding the importance of monopsony power in the U.S. labor market By Kate Bahn, Value Added (blog), July 5, 2018
• The new Fama puzzle By Matthieu Bussière, Menzie Chinn, Laurent Ferrara, and Jonas Heipertz, VoxEU, 05 July 2018
• Fiscal Sustainability: A Primer by Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz, Money and Banking (blog), July 2, 2018

Notable: June 2018

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• G.M. Says New Wave of Trump Tariffs Could Force U.S. Job Cuts By Tiffany Hsu, The New York Times, June 29, 2018
• What’s the Yield Curve? ‘A Powerful Signal of Recessions’ Has Wall Street’s Attention By Matt Phillips, The New York Times, June 25, 2018
• "Typically, when an economy seems in good health, the rate on the longer-term bonds will be higher than short-term ones. The extra interest is to compensate, in part, for the risk that strong economic growth could set off a broad rise in prices, known as inflation. Lately, though, long-term bond yields have been stubbornly slow to rise — which suggests traders are concerned about long-term growth — even as the economy shows plenty of vitality.
  
  At the same time, the Federal Reserve has been raising short-term rates, so the yield curve has been “flattening.” In other words, the gap between short-term interest rates and long-term rates is shrinking."
• Sudden Stops: A Primer on Balance-of-Payments Crises By Stephen Cecchetti and Kermit Schoenholtz,  June 25, 2018
• Short of Workers, Fast-Food Restaurants Turn to Robots By Julie Jargon and Eric Morath, The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2018
• Inequalities in household wealth across OECD countries: Evidence from the OECD Wealth Distribution Database by Carlotta Balestra and Richard Tonkin, OECD Statistics Working Papers, June 2018
• Twitter post, @OECD, June 20, 2018
• Thinking About a Trade War (Very Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 17, 2018
• Ten years on, how countries that crashed are faring By Phillip Inman, The Observer, June 16, 2018
• Tax Cuts and Leprechauns (Wonkish) By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 15, 2018
• What to Do When the Labor Market Stops Working for Workers By Alan S. Blinder, The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2018
• How trend-riding Trump is taking credit for the economy he inherited By Jared Bernstein, The Washington Post, June 11, 2018
• E-Commerce Might Help Solve the Mystery of Low Inflation By Patricia Cohen and Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, June 11, 2018
• A Trade War Primer By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 3, 2018
• "It seems to me that this might be a good time to write down a brief, non-scholarly primer on how the trading system – and U.S. trade policy within that system – work."