Labor

• See how Social Security retirement benefits stack up globally By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, July 21, 2024
  
• F.T.C. Issues Ban on Worker Noncompete Clauses By J. Edward Moreno, The New York Times, April 23, 2024
  
• Donald Trump Is No Friend to the Working Class By K.J. Boyle, The New Republic, January 23, 2024
  
• Seeking Love, With Help From the City Government By John Yoon, The New York Times, August 7, 2023
  
• Stanley Engerman, Revisionist Scholar of Slavery, Dies at 87 By Richard Sandomir, The New York Times, May 27, 2023 
• What Is the Ideal Retirement Age for Your Health? By Dana G. Smith, The New York Times, April 13, 2023
• The Death of “Econ 101” By Unlearning Economics, Current Affairs, October 19, 2022
  
• Has Bidenomics Been Good for Workers? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 5, 2022
  
•  Even in a Hot Economy, Wages Aren’t Keeping Up With Inflation By Jason Furman, The Wall Street Journal, April 12, 2022
  
• Help Wanted: Adjunct Professor, Must Have Doctorate. Salary: $0. By Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times, April 6, 2022
  
• Employer Practices Limit Workers’ Choices and Wages, U.S. Study Argues By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, March 7, 2022
• Treasury Report Press Release
  
• Technology and Labor
• AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class By David Autor, Noema, February 12, 2024
  
• Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job? By Lydia DePillis and Steve Lohr, The New York Times, March 28, 2023
  
• Productivity
• Wave of Job-Switching Has Employers on a Training Treadmill By Sydney Ember and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, January 3, 2023
  
• U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why. By Taylor Telford, The Washington Post, October 31, 2022
  
• The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score By Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram and
  Produced by Aliza Aufrichtig and Rumsey Taylor, The New York Times, Aug. 14, 2022
  
• Why Isn’t New Technology Making Us More Productive? By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 24, 2022
  
• You may get more work done at home. But you’d have better ideas at the office. By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler, The Washington Post, September 24, 2021
  
• Earnings
• Fastest wage growth over the last four years among historically disadvantaged groups By Elise Gould and Katherine deCourcy EPI, March 21, 2024
• A Job With a Fair Salary? What Pay Transparency Laws Are Revealing. By H. Claire Brown, The New York Times, June 20, 2023
  
• Real Earnings Summary Bureau of Labor Statistics, Recurring Survey
• Discrimination
• What Researchers Discovered When They Sent 80,000 Fake Résumés to U.S. Jobs By Claire Cain Miller and Josh Katz, The New York Times, April 8, 2024
  
• What the Civil War Was About By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 2, 2024
  
• Claudia Goldin’s Nobel-Winning Research Shows ‘Why Women Won’ By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, October 11, 2023
• An Economics Nobel for Showing How Much Women Matter By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 12, 2023
• Greedy jobs and the gender pay gap Sounds, BBC, Tim Harford discusses the work of Nobel Economics prize winner Claudia Goldin
•  2023 Gender Pay Gap Report  By Payscale
  
• Who Discriminates in Hiring? A New Study Can Tell. By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, June 29, 2021 
• To Make Orchestras More Diverse, End Blind Auditions By Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times, July 16, 2020
  
• The Minimum Wage
• Tragedy Kept Alan Krueger From Claiming a Nobel Prize, but He’s Not Forgotten By Timothy Noah, The Soapbox, TNR, October 14, 2021
  
• How a $15 Federal Minimum Wage Might Affect the Economy | WSJ Wall Street Journal (YouTube Channel), March 2, 2021
  
• No, a $15 minimum wage won’t cost 1.4 million jobs by Arindrajit Dube, The Washington Post, February 24, 2021
  
• The Burger Flipper Who Became a World Expert on the Minimum Wage By Peter Coy, Bloombergbusinessweek, February 3, 2021
  
• Abolish the Racist, Sexist Subminimum Wage By Michelle Alexander, The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2021
  
• The minimum wage: does it hurt workers? By The Economist (YouTube Channel), February 5, 2021
  
• Unemployment
• US economy going strong under Biden – Americans don’t believe it By Dominic Rushe, The Guardian, 15 Sep 2023
  
• Does unemployment really have to rise to bring down inflation? The Economist, August 18, 2022
  
• Number of unemployed persons per job opening, seasonally adjusted Bureau of Labor Statistics
  
• Figuring out efficient unemployment By Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez, VoxEU, 19 April 2022
  
• Employment Situation Bureau of Labor Statistics, Recurring Survey
• How to Read the Jobs Report Wall Street Journal YouTube Channel, February 4, 2022
  
• Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary (JOLTS) Bureau of Labor Statistics, Recurring Survey
  
•  Unemployment Insurance: Economic Lessons from the Last Two Recessions by Marios Karabarbounis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Brief, August 2021, No. 21-26
  
• American Unemployment Insurance Is a National Disgrace. It’s Time to Federalize It. By Max B. Sawicky, Jacobin, May 12, 2021
  
• Twitter thread on unemployment insurance in the US By James Leckie, @JamesGLeckie on Twitter, April 10, 2021
  
• Unemployment: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver LastWeekTonight, YouTube channel, March 8, 2021
  
• Should the Feds Guarantee You a Job? By Eduardo Porter, The New York Times, February 18, 2021
  
• How the American Unemployment System Failed By Eduardo Porter, with graphics by Karl Russell, The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2021
• The myth of unemployment benefits depressing work By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, August 3, 2020
• Why Japan’s Jobless Rate Is Just 2.6% While the U.S.’s Has Soared By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno, The New York Times, June 20, 2020
  
• Why the government makes it hard for Americans to get unemployment benefits  By Sean Illing, vox.com, Apr 24, 2020
  
• Labor Unions
• Job Action Against Tesla Puts Sweden’s Unions in Spotlight By Melissa Eddy, The New York Times, November 6, 2023
  
• Autoworkers Score Big Wins in New Contracts With Carmakers By Jack Ewing and Neil E. Boudette, The New York Times, October 30, 2023 
• Autoworkers Strike a Blow for Equality By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 30, 2023
• Why Unions Are Good for America By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, September 30, 2023
  
• Wonking Out: Making Manufacturing Good Again By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, September 22, 2023
  
• Do Unions Work For The Economy? IntelligenceSquared Debates, YouTube, October 21, 2022
  
•  When McDonalds Came to Denmark By Matt Bruenig, September 20, 2021
  
• President Biden releases pro-union message in advance of Amazon Alabama union vote Forbes Breaking News YouTube Channel, February 28, 2021
  
• At 65%, Approval of Labor Unions in U.S. Remains High by Megan Brenan, Gallup, September 3, 2020
• Why unions are good for workers—especially in a crisis like COVID-19 By Celine McNicholas, Lynn Rhinehart, Margaret Poydock, Heidi Shierholz, and Daniel Perez, Economic Policy Institute, August 25, 2020
  
• Robots and the gender pay gap in Europe BY Cevat Giray Aksoy, Berkay Ozcan, Julia Philipp, VoxEU, 16 July 2020
  
• Shorter Hours Make Stronger Businesses By Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 27, 2020
• Marginal Revolution University Videos
  
• Taxing Work By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 22, 2016
• Labor Force Participation By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 17, 2016
• Cyclical Unemployment By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 15, 2016
• Structural Unemployment By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 8, 2016
• Frictional Unemployment By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, November 1, 2016
• Is Unemployment Undercounted? By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, October 25, 2016
• Defining the Unemployment Rate By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, October 18, 2016
• Careers
• Occupational Outlook Handbook Bureau of Labor Statistics 
• Using the Occupational Outlook Handbook for Your Career Search BLS Videos, YouTube, March 22, 2021
  

Economic Development

• China’s Trade Surplus Reaches a Record of Nearly $1 Trillion By Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, Janauary 13, 2025
  
• Do School Meals Boost Education in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? A 15-Year Review By Amina Mendez Acosta and Biniam Bedasso, Center for Global Development (blog), December 13, 2024
  
• What to Know About China’s Export Dominance By Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, April 19, 2024
  
• Poor Nations Are Writing a New Handbook for Getting Rich By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, April 2, 2024
  
• Is Guyana’s Oil a Blessing or a Curse? By Gaiutra Bahadur, The New York Times, March 30, 2024
  
• The Clash Of Two Gilded Ages By Yuen Yuen Ang, Noema, August 31, 2022
  
• Is South Korea Disappearing? By Ross Douthat, The New York Times, December 2, 2023
  
• The World’s Population May Peak in Your Lifetime. What Happens Next? By Dean Spears, The New York Times, September 18, 2023
  
• Biden and America’s Big Green Push By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 17, 2023
  
• The Return of Industrial Policy By DOUGLAS IRWIN, Finance and Development,  June 2023
  
• What to read to understand how countries escape the worst poverty The Economist, July 21, 2022
  
• How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth By Joel Mokyr, EH.net, July 2022 [Review of How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin]
  
• Do we need a better understanding of 'progress'? By Garrison Lovely, BBC, June 15, 2022
  
• Book Review: How the World Became Rich By Davis Kedrosky, Economic History Research, Substack, June 8, 2022 [Review of How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin.]
•  About 200 years ago, the world started getting rich. Why? By Dylan Matthews, Vox, June 1, 2022 [Interview with Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin on the occasion of the publication of their book How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth.]
  
• Here’s the Secret Ingredient in Economic Growth By Peter Coy, The New York Times, April 27, 2022
  
• The World Bank as a Cash-Transfer Algorithm By Arvind Subramanian and Justin Sandefur, Project Syndicate, October 20, 2021
  
• Will China become the centre of the world economy? | FT Financial Times YouTube Channel, June 21, 2021
  
• Jobs, Houses and Cows: China’s Costly Drive to Erase Extreme Poverty By Keith Bradsher, The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2020
  
• Poverty Is a Choice By Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, July 29, 2020
  
• World’s Biggest New Oil Find Turns Guyana Upside Down By Christopher M. Matthews and Kejal Vyas, The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 28, 2020
• Guyana is definitely worth keeping an eye on.
  
  "An oil-sharing deal with Exxon Mobil Corp. is estimated to shower Guyana with nearly $170 billion in revenue in coming decades, a giant windfall for a country of 780,000 people with an annual budget of about $1.4 billion and the lowest per capita income in South America after Bolivia."
  
  That's nearly $218,000 for the average Guyanese man, woman, and child!
  
  Obviously a lot will depend on the actual -- as opposed to estimated -- revenues, how they are shared among the Guyanese, and how the revenues are invested. But even if the money is invested in a well diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds earning a 5 percent annual return (I am being very conservative), that should be $11,000 every year for every Guyanese man, woman, and child.
  
  Given that per capita income was about $4,000 in 2018, the $11,000 annual payoff should make the average Guyanese four times as rich as he/she is now, without having lifted a finger.
  
  The WSJ report discusses controversies about whether the Guyanese government negotiated their deal with Exxon-Mobil as well as they could have. But fears about being ripped off by the oild companies would strike anybody who has visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, etc., as probably overblown.
  
  The bigger danger is internal, as exemplified by the petro-kleptocracies in Angola and Equatorial Guinea. 
• Courses
• Data in Macro Development March 8, 2024
  
• Key Concepts in Macro Development February 5, 2021
   

Inflation

• The Lesson of This Election: We Must Stop Inflation Before It Starts By Isabella Weber, The New York Times, November 12, 2024
  
• Inside the Rent Inflation Measure That Economics Nerds Love to Hate By Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, May 15, 2024
  
• Our Inability to Predict Inflation Is an Embarrassment to Economics By Peter Coy, The New York Times, April 12, 2024
  
• Bank of England Will Overhaul Its Forecasting After Inflation Surprises By Eshe Nelson, The New York Times, April 12, 2024
  
• Future of Inflation Part III By Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball, Finance & Development, April 7, 2022 [A move to an electronic money standard can lower the inflation target toward zero.]
  
• Future of Inflation Part II By Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball, Finance & Development, April 7, 2022 [On the trade-offs from inflation.]
  
• Future of Inflation Part I By Ruchir Agarwal and Miles Kimball, Finance & Development, April 7, 2022 [Will high inflation persist and how will central banks respond?]
  
• Inflation 101 By The Center for Inflation Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• The Fed Drove Up Mortgage Rates. Why Doesn’t That Count as Inflation? By Peter Coy, The New York Times, September 22, 2023
  
•  Business Inflation Expectations Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. [The BIE was created to measure the year-ahead inflationary sentiments of businesses in the Sixth District.]
  
• What is a consumer price index? The Economist, March 30, 2023
  
• Think 9% Inflation Is Bad? Try 90%. By Jack Nicas and Ana Lankes, The New York Times, August 6, 2022
• Inflation By John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, YouTube, July 25, 2022
  
• Wonking Out: Rockets, Feathers and Prices at the Pump By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, July 8, 2022
• Wonking Out: Hot Economies and High Prices By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 24, 2022
  
• On Inflation, Economics Has Some Explaining to Do By Greg Ip, The Wall Street Journal, June 15, 2022
  
• U.S. policymakers misjudged inflation threat until it was too late By Mike Madden and Rachel Siegel, The Washington Post, May 30, 2022
  
• Why Has the Inflation Calculation Changed Over Time? By Stuart A. Thompson and Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, May 24, 2022
  
• Facing Higher Grocery Prices, Shoppers Change Habits By Maria Cramer, Christine Hauser and Livia Albeck-Ripka, The New York Times, May 15, 2022 
  
• How I (and US policymakers) got inflation wrong By Dylan Matthews, Vox, April 13, 2022
  
• How High Inflation Will Come Down By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 24, 2022
  
•  How Government Spending Fuels Inflation By Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal, February 18, 2022 [When debt grows so much that people don’t believe the Treasury will pay it, they sell their bonds and buy other things, sending prices through the roof.]
  
• The Year of Inflation Infamy By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, December 16, 2021
  
• How Do You Feel About Inflation? The Answer Will Help Determine Its Longevity By Nick Timiraos and Gwynn Guilford, The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 12, 2021
  
• History Says Don’t Panic About Inflation By Paul Krugman, November 11, 2021
  
• Nobody Really Knows How the Economy Works. A Fed Paper Is the Latest Sign. By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, October 1, 2021
  
• Inflation Expectations, the Phillips Curve, and the Fed’s Dual Mandate By Jane Ihrig, Ekaterina Peneva, and Scott A. Wolla, Page One Economics, Summer 2021
• A Global Database of Inflation Jongrim Ha, M. Ayhan Kose, and Franziska Ohnsorge (2021). "One-Stop Source: A Global Database of Inflation." Policy Research Working Paper 9737. World Bank, Washington DC.
• How Not to Panic About Inflation By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 22, 2021
• The Biden Economy Risks a Speeding Ticket By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, March 3, 2021
• Inflation Is Higher Than the Numbers Say By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, Sept. 2, 2020
  
• This chart is the best explanation of middle-class finances you will ever see By Christopher Ingraham, The Washington Post, Feb. 24, 2020
• Video
• Chapter 1: Fiscal Policy and Inflation with John Cochrane PolicyEd, YouTube, September 14, 2022
  
• Chapter 2: Fiscal Policy and Inflation with John Cochrane PolicyEd, YouTube, September 14, 2022
• Chapter 3: Fiscal Policy and Inflation with John Cochrane PolicyEd, YouTube, September 14, 2022
  

General Issues in Economics

• Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? By Ben Casselman, The New York Times, January 10, 2025
  
• Gen-Z’s Capitalist Whisperer By Shreeda Segan, Arena Magazine, December 5, 2024
  
• Steven Levitt, podcast interview By Jon Hartley, New Books Network, May 13, 2024
  
• Refresher Mathematics for Economics The University of Warwick
  
• Top 50 economics articles in college syllabuses Open Syllabus
  
• ‘The Alternative’ is just the book economists should read — and won’t By Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post, February 15, 2024 [Review of The Alternative by Nick Romeo.]
  
• The Quants in the Room By Jason Furman, Foreign Affairs, July/August 2022. [Review of Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy
  By Elizabeth Popp Berman]
  
• People from elite backgrounds increasingly dominate academia, data shows By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, July 8, 2022
  
• ‘If Economists Are So Smart, Why Ain’t They Rich?’ By Peter Coy, The New York Times, May 9, 2022
  
• Journals with short paper options where economists might publish Mentioned in Twitter thread https://twitter.com/DaveEvansPhD/status/1495044833211301891?s=20&t=OftPmk5K5OlLOhimInblFg
  
• EconGraphs Interactive graphs
  
• The triumph of Thomas Sowell  by John Steele Gordon, The New Criterion, June 2021 [Review of Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell, by Jason L. Riley.]
  
• If -- By Andrew Gelman, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (blog), December 17, 2020
  
• Studying Economics Increases Wages a Lot By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), October 14, 2020
• A regression-discontinuity study
• Related: College Majors Matter By Catherine Rampell, Economix (blog), The New York Times, November 2, 2011
  
• Goodbye, readers, and good luck — you’ll need it By Robert J. Samuelson, The Washington Post, September 13, 2020
• "What 50 years of writing about economics has taught me."
•  Economics is a disgrace by Claudia Sahm, MacroMom (blog), July 29, 2020
• Former Fed economist blasts her profession as racist, sexist, elitist By Megan Cerullo, CBS News, July 30, 2020
  
• Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists By Lydia DePillis, CNN Business, March 13, 2019

Economic Inequality and Poverty

• The Democrats Are in Trouble. This Man Can Save Them. By Daniel Chandler, The New York Times, November 24, 2024 [On John Rawls.]
  
• In a Bid to Feed More Families, WIC Diversifies Its Menu By Emily Schmall, The New York Times, October 17, 2024
  
• Tim Walz and the Weird Politics of Free School Lunches By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, Aug. 8, 2024
  
• What Gives Kids a Chance at a More Successful Future? New Study Explains | Amanpour and Company Amanpour and Company, YouTube, Aug. 8, 2024
• Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps By Richard V. Reeves and Scott Winship, Center for Opportunity and Social Mobility, July 26, 2024
• Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America The Economist, July 25, 2024
  
• What Gives Poor Kids a Shot at Better Lives? Economists Find an Unexpected Answer By Justin Lahart, The Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2024
  
• Who Can Achieve the American Dream? Race Matters Less Than It Used To. By German Lopez and Ashley Wu, The New York Times, July 25, 2024
• Why good news about inequality is awkward for the left and right By George F. Will, The Washington Post, March 22, 2024
  
• 10 Excellent Empirical Papers on Economic Inequality X-thread by @BevansAdvocate, X, January 7, 2024
  
• Do we really live in an “age of inequality”? Why economists are reconsidering the scale of the rise in US inequality. By Dylan Matthews, vox.com, Jan 11, 2024
  
• A new debate is raging on an old subject: How fair is America?  By the Editorial Board, The Washington Post, January 7, 2024
  
• Measuring income inequality: A primer on the debate By William G. Gale, John Sabelhaus, and Samuel I. Thorpe, Brookings, December 21, 2023
  
• Another Wrong Way to Measure Poverty By Phil Gramm and John Early, The Wall Street Journal, December 5, 2023
  
• Why economists are at war over inequality The Economist, November 30, 2023
  
• Economists Ignored Inequality for Years. Now They Can’t Stop Talking About It. By Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times, November 3, 2023
  
• The One Privilege Liberals Ignore By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, September 13, 2023
  
• Families, Opportunities, and Data-Driven Narratives By James Heckman and Gonzalo Schwarz, Newsweek, June 29, 2023
  
• A Better Way to Help Families By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, June 16, 2023
  
• Why are so many Americans poor? Because we allow it, two books argue. By Timothy Noah, The Washington Post, March 16, 2023 [Review of “The Poverty Paradox” by Mark Robert Rank and “Poverty, by America” by Matthew Desmond.]
• Why Poverty Persists in America By Matthew Desmond, The New York Times Magazine, March 13, 2023
  
• Rebecca Blank, Who Changed How Poverty Is Measured, Dies at 67 By Alex Traub, The New York Times, March 11, 2023
  
• The G.O.P. Plot Against Medicare and Social Security By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 3, 2022
• Wonking Out: Stealing Away the Golden Years of the Working Class By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 4, 2022
  
• Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, September 11, 2022
  
• The Shrinking of the Middle-Class Neighborhood By Sophie Kasakove and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times, July 6, 2022
  
• The U.S. Is Winning the War on Poverty By Peter Coy, The New York Times, September 15, 2021
  
• Private fortunes shouldn’t be abolished. But our society shouldn’t be this unequal, either. The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, August 5, 2021
• Narrowing the U.S. wealth gap is important. Narrowing the racial wealth gap is urgent. The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 30, 2021
• How to close the wealth gap from the bottom up  The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 26, 2021
• Here’s the smart way to tax the rich The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 21, 2021
• The U.S. is growing more unequal. That’s harmful — and fixable.  The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 16, 2021
• The U.S. is growing more unequal. That’s harmful — and fixable. The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, July 16, 2021
  
• The 'American Dream' of upward mobility is broken. Look at the numbers By Mark R Rank and Lawrence M Eppard, The Guardian, March 13, 2021
  
• The Plot to Help America’s Children By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 15, 2021
  
• Has Wealth Inequality in America Changed over Time? Here Are Key Statistics By Ana Hernández Kent and Lowell R. Ricketts, Open Vault Blog, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, December 2, 2020
  
• How to Fix Economic Inequality? An Overview of Policies for the United States and Other High-Income Economies Peterson Institute for International Economics, November 17, 2020
  
•  Why, When, and How to Teach the Fundamentals of Inequality in Principles By Can Erbil and Geoffrey Sanzenbacher, Policy Brief 28, econoflip (blog), August 2020 
• Why Americans Are Dying from Despair By Atul Gawande, The New Yorker, March 16, 2020
  
• Is Economic Inequality Really a Problem? By Samuel Scheffler, The New York Times, July 1, 2020
• Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, July 1, 2020
• The Bigger Picture | Lecture 5 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 29, 2020
• What Is Happening Now? | Lecture 4 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 29, 2020
• What Is Happening? | Lecture 3 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 29, 2020
• How Do We Measure Inequality? | Lecture 2 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 28, 2020
• Why Should I Care? | Lecture 1 | Inequality 101 by Branko Milanovic & Arjun Jayadev, INET YouTube channel, January 28, 2020
  
• The American ideology, on the left and the right, that props up inequality  by James Kwak, The Washington Post, May 22, 2020. [Review of Thomas Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• Thomas Piketty Takes On the Ideology of Inequality  by Marshall Steinbaum, Boston Review, March 25, 2020
• Thomas Piketty Turns Marx on His Head  by Paul Krugman, The New York Times, March 8, 2020 [Review of Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• Thomas Piketty Goes Global  by Idrees Kahloon, The New Yorker, March 5, 2020 [Review of Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• How Thomas Piketty lost touch with reality  by Paul Collier, New Statesman, March 4, 2020 [Review of Piketty's "Capital and Ideology".]
• Cash Assistance
• Cash alone proves inadequate to solve the problems of the poor By Megan McArdle, The Washington Post, September 3, 2024
  
• The Report Card on Guaranteed Income Is Still Incomplete By Emma Goldberg, The New York Times, August 30, 2024 
• Government’s Pandemic Response Turned a Would-Be Poverty Surge Into a Record Poverty Decline By Danilo Trisi, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, August 29, 2023
  
• Universal Basic Income Has Been Tested Repeatedly. It Works. Will America Ever Embrace It? by Megan Greenwell, The Washington Post, October 24, 2022
  
• Biden Has Helped the Quiet Revolution of Giving People Money By Farhad Manjoo, The New York Times, September 23, 2022
  
• Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City By Kurtis Lee, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2022
  
• How $1,000 a Month in Guaranteed Income Is Helping N.Y.C. Mothers By Andy Newman, The New York Times, January 18, 2022
  
• The case for a universal basic income by Martin Sandbu, The Financial Times YouTube channel, December 20, 2021
  
• The $60 Billion Plan To Give Every American Baby $1,000 CNBC YouTube Channel, June 22, 2021
  
• The Radically Simple New Approach to Helping Families: Send Parents Money By Claire Cain Miller and Neil Irwin, The New York Times, Feb. 9, 2021
  
• Give Money to Babies By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, Sept. 8, 2020
  
• $1,000 ‘Baby Bond’ Proposed in N.J. in Bid to Narrow the Wealth Gap By Tracey Tully, The New York Times, Aug. 25, 2020
  
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Behavioral Economics

• Richard A. Easterlin, ‘Father of Happiness Economics,’ Dies at 98 By Trip Gabriel, The New York Times, January 4, 2025
  
• Prospect Theory By Lionel Page 
• It's not a bug, it's a feature: Revisiting Kahneman and Tversky's insights on subjective satisfaction By Lionel Page, Optimally Irrational (blog), June 28, 2023
  
• That Giant College ‘Sticker’ Price Isn’t What Most Students Pay By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, April 12, 2024 [Is education a Veblen good?]
  
• Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90 By Robert D. Hershey, The New York Times, March 27, 2024
• The Nobel Prize-Winning Professor Who Liked to Collaborate With His Adversaries By Cass R. Sunstein, The New York Times, April 1, 2024
  
• The Unlikely Story of Behavioral Economics Podcast, Opinion Science, February 26, 2024
  
• They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? By Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, September 30, 2023
  
• The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers By Noam Scheiber, The New York Times, September 30, 2023 ["When Francesca Gino, a rising academic star, was accused of falsifying data — about how to stop dishonesty — it didn’t just torch her career. It inflamed a crisis in behavioral science."]
  
• Opinion Why colleges hide the truth about tuition (it isn’t as high as advertised) By George F. Will, The Washington Post, August 30, 2023 
  
• The Fall of a Superstar Psychologist By quant, YouTube, August 5, 2023
  
• ‘Random Acts of Medicine’ Review: Paging Dr. Chance By Alex Tabarrok, The Wall Street Journal, August 2, 2023 [Review of "Random Acts of Medicine" by Anupam Jena and Christopher Worsham.]
  
• Do judges give out tougher sentences when hungry? The story behind a study too good to be true By Stuart Ritchie, i News, March 29, 2023
  
• The long-term effects of conditional cash transfer programmes: Evidence from Colombia By Attanasio, O, L Cardona-Sosa, C Medina, C Meghir, C M Posso-Suárez and Bibiana Taboada, VoxDev, February 27, 2023 [Example of a non-nudge intervention based on behavioral economics.]
  
•  Manufacturers use 'shrinkflation' to pass costs on to consumers  PBS NewsHour, YouTube, July 29, 2022
  
• The death of behavioral economics By Jason Hreha (blog), August 28, 2021
  
• For a Fairer World, It’s Necessary First to Cut Through the ‘Noise’ By Steven Brill, The New York Times, May 18, 2021
  
• Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’ By Tim Adams, The Guardian, May 16, 2021
  
• Bias Is a Big Problem. But So Is ‘Noise.’ By Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein, The New York Times, May 15, 2021
  
•  Good Moods Often Lead to Bad Judgments By Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass R. Sunstein, The Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2021. [Excerpt from "Noise".]
  
• Cognitive Reflection Problems By Numberphile YouTube Channel, January 31, 2021
  
• Just How Dishonest Are Most Students? By Christian B. Miller, The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2020
• Using behavioural economics in development policy Michael Kremer and Gautam Rao, interviewed by VoxDev, January 29, 2020
  
• Neuroeconomics and Shopping: Don’t Ask the Person, Ask the Brain (Colin Camerer, Caltech) Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, June 9, 2020
  
• How Common Mental Shortcuts Can Cause Major Physician Errors  By Anupam B. Jena and Andrew R. Olenski, The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2020
• The simple maths error that can lead to bankruptcy By David Robson, Worklife (blog), BBC.com, 17th February 2020 [The “gambler’s fallacy” - which can affect everyone from athletes to loan officers - creates deceptive biases that lead you to anticipate patterns that don’t really exist.]
  
• Laplace's Theories of Cognitive Illusions, Heuristics, and Biases Suggested citation: Miller, Joshua B. and Gelman, Andrew, Laplace's Theories of Cognitive Illusions, Heuristics, and Biases (December 1, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3149224 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3149224
  
• For more, see Laplace’s Theories of Cognitive Illusions, Heuristics and Biases by Andrew Gelman, Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science (blog), 5 June 2020
• Reversals in psychology By Gavin Leech, ArgMin Gravitas (blog), January 26, 2020
  
• Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, February 20, 2017 
• Self-Control
• The Marshmallow Test and other predictors of success have bias built in, researchers say By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post, August 29, 2024
  
• Fairness
  
• Consumers Hate ‘Price Discrimination,’ but They Sure Love a Discount By Lydia DePillis, The New York Times, April 6, 2024
  
• Placebo Effect
• Think you are sick? It may be the nocebo effect. By Stacey Colino, The Washington Post, August 7, 2024
  
• ‘No Better Than Placebo’ By Ted J. Kaptchuk, The New York Times, October 10, 2023
  
• Nudges
• The Problem With Behavioral Nudges By Evan Polman and Sam J. Maglio, The Wall Street Journal, May 26, 2024
  
• Second Thoughts about Nudge-based Behavioral Policies By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist (blog), July 21, 2023
  
• How ‘nudge economics’ lets companies pass the buck By Helaine Olen, The Washington Post, May 16, 2022
  
• More Than Nudges Are Needed to End the Pandemic By Richard H. Thaler, The New York Times, August 5, 2021
  
• Why we can’t always be “nudged” into changing our behavior  By Kelsey Piper, Vox.com, Feb 26, 2020
• Recent studies looked at “nudging” interventions and mostly found disappointing results.
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• Loss Aversion
• The Brain Hates Losing (and Other News from Neuroeconomics)  By Colin Camerer, Caltech, YouTube, October 12, 2022
  
• Automatic Saving
• Saving at Work for Retirement: A Perk Coming to More States in 2021 By Tammy La Gorce, The New York Times, Dec. 22, 2020
  
• More Workers Get Help in Building Rainy Day Savings By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, Nov. 6, 2020
  
• I Made One Simple Financial Change and It Lowered My Spending By JOE PINSKER, The Atlantic, SEPTEMBER 7, 2018
  
• Phishing for Phools
• How One Firm Drove Influence Campaigns Nationwide for Big Oil By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, Nov. 11, 2020. [FTI, a global consulting firm, helped design, staff and run organizations and websites funded by energy companies that can appear to represent grass-roots support for fossil-fuel initiatives.]
  
• "Phishing for Phools" | Talks at Google by Robert J. Shiller, Talks at Google (YouTube channel), November 18, 2015
• Phishing for Phools: the economics of manipulation and deception by Robert J. Shiller, LSE (YouTube channel), November 11, 2015
• Charity
• What Makes People Give? By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, March 9, 2008
  
• Mental Accounting
• Mental Accounting by Daniel Kahneman, INTELECOM (YouTube channel), April 4, 2018
  
• Cognitive Biases: Mental Accounting by Laurie Santos, Wireless Philosophy (YouTube channel), September 19, 2015
• Mental Accounting by Dan Ariely, Long Luong (YouTube channel), April 7, 2013
• Addiction
• The Science Behind Your Need for One More Potato Chip By Daniel E. Lieberman, The New York Times, March 12, 2021. [Review of "HOOKED: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions" By Michael Moss.]
• This Addiction Treatment Works. Why Is It So Underused? By Abby Goodnough, The New York Times, Oct. 27, 2020
• Defaults
• How The Trump Campaign Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations MSNBC YouTube Channel,April 5, 2021 
• Peer Effects
• Debunking Common Psychology Myths #2: The Stanford Prison Experiment By Dominic Packer and Jay Van Bavel, The Power Of Us (newsletter), October 1, 2024
  
• Could Peer Influence Be a Cause of the Global Baby Bust? By Peter Coy, The New York Times, April 21, 2023
• How peer pressure can help stop climate change by Robert H. Frank, The Washington Post, February 20, 2020
• Behavioral Finance
• When It Comes to Money, Your Brain Can Be Your Own Worst Enemy By Kristin Wong, The New York Times, February 26, 2023 [Our cognitive biases can get in the way of saving for the future, especially for retirement. Here’s how to recognize and overcome them.] 
• ‘Dumb Money’ Exposes the Baffling Allure of Bad Investment Advice By Owen A. Lamont and Richard H. Thaler, The New York Times, October 1, 2023
• Overconfidence
• Jensen Huang, the cofounder and current CEO of Nvidia, wouldn't do it all over again if he could. x.com, July 26, 2024
  
   

Migration

• A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration Mess The Editorial Board, The New York Times, January 10, 2025
  
• Trump Weighs In on Immigrant Visa Debate but Offers Little Clarity By Ken Bensinger, The New York Times, December 28, 2024
  
• Cyclone on French Archipelago Exposes Resentments Over Immigrants By John Eligon and Julie Bourdin with Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev, The New York Times, Dec. 25, 2024
• Dominican Republic expels over 10,000 Haitians, and plans to do so every week By Ana Vanessa Herrero, The Washington Post, October 11, 2024
  
• The Nation Resurgent, and Borders, Too By Roger Cohen, The New York Times, June 23, 2024
  
• The other side of Punta Cana: A crackdown on Haitians By Samantha Schmidt, The Washington Post, May 19, 2024
  
• Six years later, 1,400 children remain separated from their families By Philip Bump, The Washington Post, May 7, 2024
  
• Brain drain vs brain gain: Does international migration deplete poor countries of skilled workers? By Paolo Abarcar and Caroline Theoharides, VoxDev, March 5, 2024
  
• Jamaica Fears Brain Drain as Teachers Leave for U.S. Schools By Simon Romero, The New York Times, October 24, 2023
  
• They Hid on a Ship’s Rudder to Flee Nigeria. They Landed in Brazil. By Julia Vargas Jones, The New York Times, August 10, 2023
  
• Over Decades, Congress Failed Repeatedly to Address Immigration Dysfunction By Karoun Demirjian, The New York Times, May 14, 2023
  
• Canada Aims to Add 1.45 Million Immigrants by 2025 By Vjosa Isai, The New York Times, November 1, 2022
  
• Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success By Leah Boustan, Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance, YouTube, June 17, 2022
• How migration could make the world richer The Economist YouTube channel, November 29, 2019
• How to get migration right The Economist YouTube channel, November 27, 2019
  
• What Economists Think About Immigration Doesn’t Really Matter By Peter Coy, The New York Times, December 17, 2021
  
• Contending With the Pandemic, Wealthy Nations Wage Global Battle for Migrants By Damien Cave and Christopher F. Schuetze, The New York Times, Nov. 24, 2021
  
• Wanted temporarily in post-Brexit Britain: 800 foreign butchers to slaughter some 120,000 pigs By Amy Cheng, The Washington Post, October 15, 2021
  
• Mayor suggests Helsinki declare itself an English-language city By Jon Henley, The Guardian, September 2, 2021
  
• Do Restrictions on H-1B Visas Create American Jobs? By Youyou Zhou, The New York Times, May 8, 2021
  
• The Great Climate Migration Has Begun By Abrahm Lustgarden, The New York Times Magazine, July 26, 2020
  
• The Open Borders Trap  By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, March 5, 2020
• Immigration: No visas for low-skilled workers, government says BBC, February 19, 2020
• BBC Briefing on Immigration BBC, January 19, 2020 [The document itself is at http://news.files.bbci.co.uk/include/newsspec/pdfs/bbc-briefing-immigration-newsspec-26148-v1.pdf.]
• What would the UK be like without immigration? by Jonathan Portes, BBC, January 14, 2020

Healthcare Economics

• How a Company Makes Millions Off a Hospital Program Meant to Help the Poor By Ellen Gabler, The New York Times, January 16, 2025
  
• Diabetes and Heart Disease Rise Alongside Sugary Drink Consumption By Andrew Jacobs, The New York Times, January 6, 2025
  
• How ‘Health Freedom’ Became a Winning Rallying Cry By Kate Morgan, The New York Times, December 31, 2024 [For decades, vaccine skeptics were a vocal protest movement. Now, they find themselves much closer to power.]
• America’s Hidden Racial Divide: A Mysterious Gap in Psychosis Rates By Daniel Bergner, The New York Times Magazine, December 4, 2024
  
• Most Rural Hospitals Have Closed Their Maternity Wards, Study Finds By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, December 5, 2024
  
• What’s Behind the Remarkable Drop in U.S. Overdose Deaths By Jan Hoffman and Noah Weiland, The New York Times, November 21, 2024
  
• Senate report: How private equity ‘gutted’ dozens of U.S. hospitals By Bethany McLean, The Washington Post, October 17, 2024
  
• The Campaign Issue That Isn’t: Health Care Reform By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Sep. 14, 2024
• The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs By Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson, The New York Times, June 21, 2024 [This is the first article in a series about how pharmacy benefit managers prioritize their interests, often at the expense of patients, employers and taxpayers.]
  
• 2024 Sargan Lecture: Health Inequality and Health Types By Mariacristina De Nardi, Royal Economic Society, YouTube, May 23, 2024
  
• South Korean Doctors Walk Out, Protesting Plan to Increase Their Ranks By Jin Yu Young, The New York Times, February 19, 2024
  
• Primary care saves lives. Here’s why it’s failing Americans. By Frances Stead Sellers, The Washington Post, October 17, 2023
  
• How Do We Fix the Scandal That Is American Health Care? By Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times, August 16, 2023
  
• How much money do doctors really make and why is it such a lot? By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, August 4, 2023
  
• Financiers bought up anesthesia practices, then raised prices By Peter Whoriskey, The Washington Post, June 29, 2023
  
• 'You're not God': Doctors and patient families say HCA hospitals push hospice care By Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, June 21, 2023
  
• The Moral Crisis of America’s Doctors By Eyal Press, The New York Times Magazine, June 16, 2023 [The corporatization of health care has changed the practice of medicine, causing many physicians to feel alienated from their work.]
  
• Senior care is crushingly expensive. Boomers aren’t ready. By Christopher Rowland, The Washington Post, March 18, 2023
  
• They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay. By Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas, The New York Times, Sept. 24, 2022
  
• How Being Sick Changed My Health Care Views By Ross Douthat, The New York Times, January 19, 2022
  
• Why Cash Is Better Than Expanded Health Insurance for the Poor  By Amy Finkelstein, The New York Times, May 13, 2021
  
• This Is Why Nursing Homes Failed So Badly By E. Tammy Kim, The New York Times, Dec. 31, 2020 
• Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? By Max Roser, Our World in Data, October 29, 2020
• Pharmaceutical Business
• Giant Companies Took Secret Payments to Allow Free Flow of Opioids By Chris Hamby, The New York Times, December 17, 2024
• Insurance
• Insurance is what makes U.S. health-care prices so high By David Goldhill, The Washington Post, December 26, 2024
  
• How American Health Insurance Got So Infuriating By David Wainer, The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2024
  
• Health Insurance is a Racket: What value do these companies add, really? By Paul Krugman, Krugman Wonks Out (Substack), Dec 18, 2024
  
• I Was a Health Insurance Executive. What I Saw Made Me Quit. By Wendell Potter, The New York Times, December 18, 2024 
• UnitedHealth Group C.E.O.: The Health Care System Is Flawed. Let’s Fix It. By Andrew Witty, The New York Times, December 13, 2024
  
• The Issues with Health Insurance Companies, Explained by Doctors The Wall Street Journal, December 13, 2024 [Focuses on pre-authorization.] 
  
• Most Americans Say They Have Good Health Insurance, Polls Show By Kaleigh Rogers, The New York Times, December 13, 2024 
• ‘What’s My Life Worth?’ The Big Business of Denying Medical Care Video by Alexander Stockton, The New York Times, March 14, 2024
  
• Drug Patents
• How a Drug Maker Profited by Slow-Walking a Promising H.I.V. Therapy By Rebecca Robbins and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times, July 22, 2023 [Gilead delayed a new version of a drug, allowing it to extend the patent life of a blockbuster line of medications, internal documents show.]
• Drug Prices
• the middlemen: The Powerful Companies Driving Local Drugstores Out of Business By Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times, Oct. 19, 2024
  
• As drug middlemen influence grows, independent pharmacies face fresh challenges By McKenzie Beard, The Washington Post, October 11, 2024
  
• Senators press Novo Nordisk CEO on why Ozempic and Wegovy cost less abroad By Daniel Gilbert, The Washington Post, September 24, 2024
  
• Six Reasons Drug Prices Are So High in the U.S. By Rebecca Robbins and Christina Jewett, The New York Times, Jan. 17, 2024 [Research shows prices in the United States are nearly double those in other well-off countries.]
  
• ‘Miracle’ Cystic Fibrosis Drug Kept Out of Reach in Developing Countries By Stephanie Nolen and Rebecca Robbins, The New York Times, February 7, 2023 
• Drug Prices by Committee: One Way Biden Could Lower Costs By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, Feb. 12, 2021
  
• An Indian Drug Mogul Says Americans Will Pay Too Much for the Covid Vaccine—and Wants to Change That By SARAH WHEATON, Politico Magazine, 7/19/2020
  
• Generic Drug Maker Admits to Fixing Prices for Cholesterol Medication  By Katie Benner, The New York Times, May 7, 2020
• Why Is Medicine So Expensive? By Daniel J. Kevles, The New York Review of Books, February 21, 2019. [The system of prescription drug pricing is a patchwork product of history, vulnerable to manipulation by the pharmaceutical industry.]
  
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• Medicaid
• Why the South has such low credit scores By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, February 17, 2023
  
• Medicaid Enrollment Surpassed 80 Million, a Record, During the Pandemic By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, June 22, 2021
  
• Medicare
• Medicare Versus the Insurance Industry: A Privatization-Driven Arms Race: Forty years of gaming the system By Paul Krugman, paulkrugman.substack.com, January 7, 2025
  
• Medicare Advantage Myth-Busting By Brandon Novick, March 14, CEPR, 2024
  
• A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. And No One Is Sure Why. By Margot Sanger-Katz, Alicia Parlapiano and Josh Katz, The New York Times, Sep. 4, 2023
  
• That $56,000 Drug? Blame Medicare. By Amy Finkelstein, The New York Times, August 20, 2021
  
• New Drug Could Cost the Government as Much as It Spends on NASA By Josh Katz, Sarah Kliff and Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, June 22, 2021
  
• The Attack on an Alzheimer’s Drug By The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal, June 21, 2021
  
• When Medicare Choices Get ‘Pretty Crazy,’ Many Seniors Avert Their Eyes By Mark Miller, The New York Times, Nov. 13, 2020
• Medicare for All
• We’re Already Paying for Universal Health Care. Why Don’t We Have It? By Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein, The New York Times, July 18, 2023
  
• The Basics of ‘Medicare for All’  By Margot Sanger-Katz, The New York Times, Feb. 26, 2020
• Would Your Wages Rise Under ‘Medicare for All’?  By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, Feb. 3, 2020
• Open letter from top economists: Medicare for All would lead to massive savings for most Americans and slash waste in healthcare  By Joseph Zeballos-Roig, Business Insider, Mar. 10, 2020
• Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Roads to Universal Health Care  By Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, March 10, 2020
• Single-Payer Health Care Did Not Fail in Vermont By Lee Russ, The Progressive, March 4, 2020
  
• Why Vermont’s single-payer effort failed and what Democrats can learn from it By Amy Goldstein, The Washington Post, April 29, 2019
• Why Bernie Sanders' Single-Payer Health Care Plan Failed In Vermont All Things Considered, NPR, September 13, 2017
  
• Comparing National Healthcare Systems
  
• Random Critical Analysis blog with articles on healthcare controversies
  
• U.S. ranks last in health care compared with nine other high-income countries, report finds By Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, September 19, 2024 
• Mirror, Mirror 2024: A Portrait of the Failing U.S. Health System By David Blumenthal, Evan D. Gumas, Arnav Shah, Munira Z. Gunja, Reginald D. Williams II, The Commonwealth Fund, September 19, 2024
• What experts say about who has the world's best health-care system | Opinion The Washington Post, YouTube, June 17, 2021
  
• Politicians Ruined a Brilliant Example of Universal Health Care By Adam Westbrook, NYT Opinion, YouTube, December 7, 2023
  
• A tale of two sisters, two countries and their health systems By Frances Stead Sellers and Catarina Fernandes Martins, The Washington Post, Oct. 17, 2023  
  
• A National Treasure, Tarnished: Can Britain Fix Its Health Service? By Mark Landler, The New York Times, July 16, 2023
  
• I Studied Five Countries’ Health Care Systems. We Need to Get More Creative With Ours. By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times, June 13, 2023
  
• ‘Why Is It So Expensive?’  Video by Chai Dingari, Adam Westbrook and Brendan Miller, The New York Times, May 15, 2021 [See also https://youtu.be/EBklyksgbco.]
  
•  Maternal Mortality and Maternity Care in the United States Compared to 10 Other Developed Countries By Roosa Tikkanen, Munira Z. Gunja, Molly FitzGerald, and Laurie Zephyrin, The Commonwealth Fund, November 18, 2020
  
• Where Health Care Is a Human Right By Nathan Whitlock, The New York Review of Books, November 19, 2020. [How does the single-payer system work in Canada, and does it need reform?]
• Health Care: The Best and the Rest By David Oshinsky, The New York Review of Books, October 22, 2020 [Ezekiel Emanuel’s new book, Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?, makes a comparative study of eleven of the world’s health care systems. Who are the winners and losers?]
• Should U.S. look to UK's single-payer National Health Service for next health care moves? PBS NewsHour, September 1, 2020
  
• COMING SOON: U.S. Health Care: Best in the World? PBS NewsHour, August 31, 2020
  
• Is U.S. health care the best or 'least effective' system in the modern world? PBS NewsHour, August 31, 2020
• In the UK’s health system, rationing isn’t a dirty word  By Ezra Klein, vox.com, Jan 28, 2020
• The Netherlands has universal health insurance — and it’s all private  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 17, 2020
• Two sisters. Two different journeys through Australia’s health care system.  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 15, 2020
• Taiwan’s single-payer success story — and its lessons for America  By Dylan Scott, vox.com, Jan 13, 2020
• Obamacare
• Obamacare worked. The nation should double down. By The Editorial Board, The Washington Post, February 18, 2024
  
• Bidencare Is a Really Big Deal By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, January 25, 2024
  
• Donald Trump Still Wants to Kill Obamacare. Why? By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, November 30, 2023
• It’s Boom Times for Obamacare. Will They Last? By Noah Weiland, The New York Times, January 26, 2024
• Biden’s Hidden Health Care Triumph By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 10, 2022
  
• Obamacare, in Its First Big Test as Safety Net, Is Holding Up So Far By Margot Sanger-Katz, Sarah Kliff and Quoctrung Bui, The New York Times, Dec. 29, 2020
• Obamacare Versus the G.O.P. Zombies By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, June 29, 2020
• Republicans Killed the Obamacare Mandate. New Data Shows It Didn’t Really Matter. By Sarah Kliff, The New York Times, Sept. 18, 2020
  
• Bidencare Would Be a Big Deal By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, October 5, 2020
  
• Employer-Based Health Care, Meet Massive Unemployment By Jeneen Interlandi, The New York Times, June 29, 2020
  
• Bottomless Pinocchio: Trump’s claim that he will ‘always’ protect those with preexisting conditions By Salvador Rizzo, The Washington Post, June 29, 2020
  
• A Shadow Medical Safety Net, Stretched to the Limit  By Mattathias Schwartz, The New York Times Magazine, May 6, 2020
• First, the coronavirus pandemic took their jobs. Then, it wiped out their health insurance.  By Amy Goldstein, The Washington Post, April 18, 2020
• How Big Pharma Grew Addicted to Big Profits  By Natasha Singer, The New York Times, March 12, 2020 [Review of "PHARMA: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America" By Gerald Posner]
• I’m an E.R. Doctor in New York. None of Us Will Ever Be the Same.  By Helen Ouyang, The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2020
• America Can Afford a World-Class Health System. Why Don’t We Have One? By Anne Case and Angus Deaton, The New York Times, April 14, 2020
• A Corporate Merger Cost America Ventilators By Tim Wu, The New York Times, April 12, 2020
• The U.S. Approach to Public Health: Neglect, Panic, Repeat  By Jeneen Interlandi, The New York Times, April 9, 2020
• The Health System We’d Have if Economists Ran Things by Austin Frakt, The New York Times, February 17, 2020
• The answer to America’s health care cost problem might be in Maryland By Tara Golshan, vox.com, Jan 22, 2020
• Opinion: The U.S. can slash health-care costs 75% with 2 fundamental changes — and without ‘Medicare for All’  By Sean Masaki Flynn, MarketWatch, Nov. 9, 2019 [Focus on Singapore]
• Putting Profits Ahead of Patients By Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband, The New York Review of Books, July 13, 2017. [Health care in the US is enormously costly, often in ways that are baffling not only to patients but to doctors themselves.] 
• Health: The Right Diagnosis and the Wrong Treatment By Marcia Angell, The New York Review of Books, April 23, 2015. [Review of 'America’s Bitter Pill’ by Steven Brill.]
• On Breaking One’s Neck By Arnold Relman, The New York Review of Books, February 6, 2014. [A doctor’s near-death experience and what it reveals about the US medical care system.]
• Data
• Financing Healthcare By Esteban Ortiz-Ospina and Max Roser, Our World in Data, June 16, 2017
  
• NHANES R Package CRAN,  
• NHANES CDC
• Download NHANES data using R Ehsan Karim
• Analytic data creation using NHANES using R Ehsan Karim
• Introduction to R for health data analysis Ehsan Karim
• Complex survey data analysis course with causal inference methods Ehsan Karim (NHANES examples)
• Deep dive into health survey data analysis for R using DHS and NHANES By Kyle Monahan, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Sep 27, 2023
• NHANES Introduction By Sri Banerjee, YouTube, Feb 12, 2022
• How to use NHANES for diet sustainability analyses By Zach Conrad, YouTube, Sep 27, 2023