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

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