Notable: September 2019

• Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice.  By Gina Kolata, The New York Times, Sept. 30, 2019
• Lifting the Curtain on Income-Share Agreements  By Andrew Kreighbaum, Inside Higher Ed, September 26, 2019
• Top of the class: Labour seeks to emulate Finland's school system  By Sally Weale, The Guardian, 27 Sep 2019
• Is College Merely Helping Those Who Need Help Least?  By Tara Westover, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2019
• Review of THE YEARS THAT MATTER MOST: How College Makes or Breaks Us, By Paul Tough
• We’re Getting Ripped Off  By Jordan Weissmann, Slate, Sept 27, 2019
• Income inequality in America is the highest it’s been since census started tracking it, data shows By Taylor Telford, The Washington Post, September 26, 2019
• In Ukraine Phone Call, Alarmed Aides Saw Trouble  By Peter Baker, The New York Times, Sept. 27, 2019
• Employer Health Insurance Is Increasingly Unaffordable, Study Finds  By Reed Abelson, The New York Times, Sept. 25, 2019
• A relentless rise in premiums and deductibles is putting insurance out of reach for many workers, especially those with low incomes.
• What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max?  By William Langewiesche, The New York Times Magazine, Sept. 20, 2019
• Chicago School Professor Fights ‘Chicago School’ Beliefs That Abet Big Tech  By Daisuke Wakabayashi, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2019
• What People Say About the Economy Can Set Off a Recession  by Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, Sept. 12, 2019
•  A generation of economists helped get us into this mess. A new generation can get us out.  By Jared Bernstein, Vox, Sep 13, 2019
• Automation and jobs: When technology boosts employment  by James Bessen, VoxEU, Sptember 12, 2019
• A gift that keeps on giving: The contributions of Martin Weitzman to environmental economics by Robert Stavins, VoxEU, September 9, 2019
• Is Majoring in English Worth It?  By William McGurn, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 9, 2019
• Germany Offers a Model to Corporate America on Labor Relations  By William Boston and Eric Morath, The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 9, 2019
• Workers in Germany enjoy high protections and a say in management decisions that their U.S. counterparts would envy
•  Poor and middle-class Americans are much less likely to survive into their 70s than the wealthy, federal report says  By Christopher Ingraham and Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, September 9, 2019
• End Legacy College Admissions  by The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2019
• Cheating, Inc.: How Writing Papers for American College Students Has Become a Lucrative Profession Overseas  By Farah Stockman and Carlos Mureithi, The New York Times, Sept. 7, 2019
• When the A.I. Professor Leaves, Students Suffer, Study Says  By Cade Metz, The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2019
• Do we have an endogenous growth model in which human capital has two uses: the creation of human capital (education) and the creation of patentable ideas (R&D)? If not, is it worth writing up such a model? Might it be possible to use this phenomenon to build a model with innovation cycles? When there are lots of experts in education, lots of successful innovation occurs; some sort of complementarities attract teachers into industry, thereby harming education; this reduces students' innovation; the complemetarities now work in reverse, which sends more experts to academia; and the cycle renews.
• Death by Diet Soda?  By Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, Sept. 6, 2019
• A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man  By Emily Badger, The New York Times, Sept. 5, 2019
• Martin Weitzman, Virtuoso Climate Change Economist, Dies at 77 By Sam Roberts, The New York Times, Sept. 4, 2019

Notable: August 2019

• Historic Asset Boom Passes by Half of Families By David Harrison | Graphics by Danny Dougherty and Maureen Linke, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 30, 2019
• Can an infusion of public R&D investment revitalize a lagging economy? PBS Newshour, August 29, 2019
• How Economists’ Faith in Markets Broke America by Sebastian Mallaby, The Atlantic, September 2019
• Blame Economists for the Mess We’re In By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, Aug. 24, 2019
• Should Government ‘Pick Winners’? It’s Worked Before By Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, August 22, 2019
• Don’t worry too much about all the uproar over the inverted yield curve  By Allan Sloan, The Washington Post, August 23, 2019
• The Economist Who Believes the Government Should Just Print More Money  By Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, August 20, 2019
• What’s the Deal With That Inverted Yield Curve? A Sports Analogy Might Help  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019
• A bet by investors that the future will be worse than the present.
• I Shared My Phone Number. I Learned I Shouldn’t Have.  By Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2019
• In Delaying Tariffs, Trump Faces Up to Economic Reality  By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Aug. 14, 2019
• President Trump insists China is paying the full cost of his tariffs. But his decision to push some of them off until December is an admission of their impact on American consumers.
• What Makes an American?  By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, Aug. 9, 2019
• The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism  By Jo Becker, The New York Times, Aug. 10, 2019
• Prices for many goods do not move the way economists think they should  The Economist, August 8, 2019
•  College Still Pays Off, but Not for Everyone  By Josh Mitchell, The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 9, 2019
• Climate Change Threatens the World’s Food Supply, United Nations Warns  By Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, August 8, 2019
• Circulating in China’s Financial System: More Than $200 Billion in I.O.U.s  By Alexandra Stevenson and Cao Li, The New York Times, August 6, 2019
• Russians Flock to Easy Loans as Income Dips  By Ann M. Simmons, The Wall Street Journal, August 4, 2019
•  Economics is a failing discipline doing great harm – so let's rethink it  by Andrew Simms, The Guardian, August 3, 2019
•  Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class  By AnnaMaria Andriotis, Ken Brown and Shane Shifflett, The Wall Street Journal, August 1, 2019
•  Japan has weaponized its trade relationship with South Korea By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman, The Washington Post, August 1, 2019
• By restricting the export of key chemicals, Japan threatens South Korea’s electronics industry.

Notable: July 2019

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• Thick as a brick: Europe embraces rent controls, a policy that never works  The Economist, July 20, 2019
•  For Decoding Labor Market, Unemployment Rate May Not Do the Job  By David Harrison, The Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2019
•  Two Economists Fuel Democratic Debate Over How Far Left to Go  By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2019
• The Nordic Model May Be the Best Cushion Against Capitalism. Can It Survive Immigration?  By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, July 11, 2019
• The Trade-Off Between Jobs and Inflation Disappears  By Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, July 12, 2019
• The Effects on Employment and Family Income of Increasing the Federal Minimum Wage  by Congressional Budget Office, July 8, 2019
• Politicians Don’t Actually Care What Voters Want  By Joshua Kalla and Ethan Porter, The New York Times, July 11, 2019
• Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Retraining Its Work Force  By Ben Casselman and Adam Satariano, The New York Times, July 11, 2019
•  Adam Smith’s Refreshing Idea of Justice  By Vernon Smith, The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2019
• ‘Our Duty’ to Fight: The Rise of Militant Buddhism  By Hannah Beech, The New York Times, July 8, 2019
• Thumbs Down to Facebook’s Cryptocurrency by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Project Syndicate, July 2, 2019
• Mysteries of Monetary Policy by Robert J. Barro, Project Syndicate, July 4, 2019
• There Should Be a Public Option for Everything By Ganesh Sitaraman and Anne L. Alstott, The New York Times, July 6, 2019
• Trump Is Losing His Trade Wars  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, July 4, 2019
• Interest Rates Just Keep Falling. Economic Orthodoxy Is Falling With Them.  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, July 4, 2019
• What Would Giving Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants Mean?  By Jan Hoffman, The New York Times, July 3, 2019
• 10 Medical Myths We Should Stop Believing. Doctors, Too.  by Gina Kolata, The New York Times, July 1, 2019
• Plane Stowaway Found Dead After Plunge Into a London Garden  by Megan Specia, The New York Times, July 2, 2019

Notable: June 2019

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• A gamble on the rains: The South Asian monsoon, past, present and future The Economist, June 27, 2019
  
• A Comprehensive Guide to Taking Your Smartphone Abroad for Cheap By Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, June 26, 2019
  
• A foreign mafia has come to Italy and further polarized the migration debate By Chico Harlan and Stefano Pitrelli, The Washington Post, June 25, 2019
  
• The new left economics: how a network of thinkers is transforming capitalism by Andy Beckett, The Guardian, June 25, 2019
  
• How E-Commerce Sites Manipulate You Into Buying Things You May Not Want By Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, The New York Times, June 24, 2019
  
• The National Debt Is Still a Problem by N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, June 20, 2019
• Best Drummers Of All Time: 100 Legendary Musicians You Need To Know by uDiscover Team, uDidscoverMusic.com, June 19, 2019
  
• Behavioural economics: People are more honest than they think they are The Economist, June 22, 2019
  
• Globalization Is Moving Past the U.S. and Its Vision of World Order by Peter Goodman, The New York Times, June 19, 2019
• The IPO Shortcut: A Direct Listing By Maureen Farrell and Ana Rivas, The Wall Street Journal, June 19, 2019 [How companies like Slack and Spotify can go public without a traditional IPO]
  
• Facebook Plans Global Financial System Based on Cryptocurrency By Mike Isaac and Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times, June 18, 2019
• How Libra, Facebook’s Cryptocurrency, Would Work for You By Nathaniel Popper and Mike Isaac, The New York Times, June 18, 2019
• How Food-Delivery Couriers Exploit Desperate Migrants in France By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, June 16, 2019
  
• More than Two Decades of Macroeconomic History Through the Lens of Four Key Components of Aggregate Demand By Brad DeLong, June 16, 2019
  
• How Washington Learned to Love Debt and Deficits By Kate Davidson and Jon Hilsenrath, The Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2019
  
• U.S. Inflation Expectations Decline to Lowest Level Since Late 2017, N.Y. Fed Says by Michael S. Derby, The Wall Street Journal, June 10, 2019
  
• The first folio of finance: A revolutionary treatise goes on the block The Economist, June 8, 2019
  
• The trouble with economics The Economist, June 8, 2019
• Review of "Licence to be Bad: How Economics Corrupted Us." By Jonathan Aldred, Allen Lane
• ‘Socialism for the rich’: the evils of bad economics  by Jonathan Aldred, The Guardian, June 6, 2019
• The rise of millennial socialism By Gavin Jacobson, New Statesman, June 5, 2019
  
• Modern Monetary Theory’s Reluctant Poster Child: Japan by Ben Dooley, The New York Times, June 5, 2019
• Despite its huge debt, the country remains an economic powerhouse. Some say it provides a model for the United States, but its leaders disavow the idea.
• Magical Monetary Theory  by John Greenwood and Steve H. Hanke, The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2019
• The Best Tools for Fighting Recession Run on Autopilot by Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion, June 5, 2019 [On Automatic Fiscal Stabilizers]

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