Labor

• 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

• 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.

Inflation

• 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

• 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

• 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• 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
  
• Expanded Safety Net Drives Sharp Drop in Child Poverty By Jason DeParle, The New York Times, September 11, 2022
  
• Guaranteed Income Programs Spread, City by City By Kurtis Lee, The New York Times, Sept. 10, 2022
  
• The Shrinking of the Middle-Class Neighborhood By Sophie Kasakove and Robert Gebeloff, The New York Times, July 6, 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 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 $60 Billion Plan To Give Every American Baby $1,000 CNBC YouTube Channel, June 22, 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
  
• 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
  
•  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
  
• 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
  
•  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".]
• The Liberal Economists Behind the Wealth Tax Debate By Jim Tankersley and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2020

Behavioral Economics

• 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 
• Fairness
  
• Consumers Hate ‘Price Discrimination,’ but They Sure Love a Discount By Lydia DePillis, The New York Times, April 6, 2024
  
• Placebo Effect
• ‘No Better Than Placebo’ By Ted J. Kaptchuk, The New York Times, October 10, 2023
  
• Nudges
• 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
• 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

Migration

• 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

• 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
• 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
• 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 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
  
• 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.]
  

Microeconomics

• Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem. By Shannon Osaka, The Washington Post, April 22, 2024
  
• For older women with money, it’s yes to love but ‘I don’t’ to marriage A new generation of women are rejecting matrimony for financial independence  By Roxanne Roberts, The Washington Post, January 16, 2024
  
• France has too much wine. It’s paying millions to destroy the leftovers. By Caroline Anders, August 26, 2023
  
• Pittsburghers rush to Sheetz to take advantage of $1.776 gallon gas CBS Pittsburgh, YouTube, July 4, 2023
  
• How to avoid energy rationing The Economist, August 25, 2022
  
• Why Are C.E.O.s Suddenly Obsessed With ‘Elasticity’? By Jason Karaian and Veronica Majerol, The New York Times, Aug. 19, 2022
  
• Baby Formula Shortage Has an Aggravating Factor: Few Producers By Julie Creswell and Madeleine Ngo, The New York Times, May 20, 2022
  
• How Europeans Are Responding to Exorbitant Gas and Power Bills By Melissa Eddy and Liz Alderman, The New York Times, Feb. 22, 2022
  
• C.E.O.s Are Qualified to Make Profits, Not Lead Society By N. Gregory Mankiw, The New York Times, July 24, 2020
  
• ‘Extreme Economies’ Review: Let’s Make a Deal  By William Easterly, The Wall Street Journal, March 30, 2020 [Review of "Extreme Economies" by Richard Davies.]
• Never Mind the Internet. Here’s What’s Killing Malls. By Austan Goolsbee, The New York Times, Feb. 14, 2020

Externalities

• Biden Administration Unleashes Powerful Regulatory Tool Aimed at Climate By Coral Davenport, The New York Times, December 2, 2023
  
• Can We Put a Price on Climate Damages? By David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times, September 20, 2023
  
• International spillover effects of air pollution: Evidence from mortality and health data By Heo, S W, K Ito, and R Kotamarthi, VoxDev, February 10, 2023
  
• Poison in the haze: documenting life under Ahvaz’s oppressive orange skies Photographs by Mohamad Madadi in Ahvaz and words by Finn Blythe, The Guardian, Janaury 6, 2023
  
• Pace of Climate Change Sends Economists Back to Drawing Board By Lydia DePillis, The New York Times, August 25, 2022
  
• We Will All End Up Paying for Someone Else’s Beach House By Francis Wilkinson, The New York Times, August 8, 2022
  
• When Thousands of Hogs Are Your Neighbors By Eric Schlosser, The New York Times, June 7, 2022 [Review of WASTELANDS: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial, by Corban Addison]
  
• Air Pollution Kills 10 Million People a Year. Why Do We Accept That as Normal? By David Wallace-Wells, The New York Times, July 8, 2022
  
• Climate change: New Zealand's plan to tax cow and sheep burps By Peter Hoskins, BBC News, June 9, 2022
  
• Dead zones: how chemical pollution is suffocating the sea The Economist YouTube Channel, January 6, 2022
  
• The Latest Farm Product: Carbon Credits By Elizabeth G. Dunn, The New York Times, Nov. 23, 2021
  
• Could New York’s ‘black mayonnaise’ problem sink a new 82-block development? By Alison Smith, The Guardian, September 2, 2021
  
• Nobel winner’s evolution from ‘dark realist’ to just plain realist on climate change By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post, June 14, 2021
  
• Trading Pollution: How Pollution Permits Paradoxically Reduce Emissions  Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, March 18, 2015
• The Coase Theorem By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, March 18, 2015
• The Hidden Cost of Pollution By Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution University YouTube Channel, April 17, 2020
  
• The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof By Julia Rosen, The New York Times, April 22, 2021
  
• The Right Discount Rate for Regulatory Costs and Benefits By Michael Greenstone and James H. Stock, The Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2021
  
• Biden is hiking the cost of carbon. It will change how the U.S. tackles global warming. By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis, The Washington Post, Feb. 26, 2021
  
• Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon By Gernot Wagner, David Anthoff, Maureen Cropper, Simon Dietz, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Ben Groom, J. Paul Kelleher, Frances C. Moore & James H. Stock, Nature, February 19, 2021
  
• Recycling in America Is a Mess. A New Bill Could Clean It Up. By Michael Kimmelman, The New York Times, Jan. 27, 2021
  
• How the oil industry made us doubt climate change By Phoebe Keane, BBC News, September 20, 2020
  
• Are We Overreacting on Climate Change? by Joseph E. Stiglitz, The New York Times, July 16, 2020. [Review of "FALSE ALARM: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet" By Bjorn Lomborg.]
  
• Pollution is plummeting in Italy in the wake of coronavirus, emissions data show  By Chris Mooney, John Muyskens, Brady Dennis and Andrew Freedman, The Washington Post, March 13, 2020
• The fastest way to cut carbon emissions is a ‘fee’ and a dividend, top leaders say By Steven Mufson, The Washington Post, Feb. 13, 2020

Trade Deficit

• U.S. Trade Deficit Shrinks, but Not Because Factories Are Returning By Ana Swanson, The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2020

Fiscal Policy

• A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space Kose, M. Ayhan, Sergio Kurlat, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara (2017). "A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space." Policy Research Working Paper 8157, World Bank, Washington, DC.
  
• State Fiscal Briefs Urban Institute
  
• Time For a Victory Lap* By Jeanna Smialek, The New York Times, January 6, 2022
  
• Spending without taxing: now we’re all guinea pigs in an endless money experiment By Satyajit Das, The Guardian, December 10, 2021
  
• Who’s Afraid of Big Numbers? By Aiyana Green and Steven Strogatz, The New York Times, June 17, 2021
  
• Economists Want to Put Stimulus on Autopilot. Congress Has Other Ideas.  By Neil Irwin, The New York Times, May 15, 2020
• Fix recessions by giving people money  The Weeds Podcast, January 31, 2020 [Matthew Yglesias interviews Claudia ("Sahm Rule") Sahm.]
• Recession Ready: Fiscal Policies to Stabilize the American Economy By Heather Boushey, Ryan Nunn, and Jay Shambaugh (editors), The Hamilton Project, May 16, 2019
• Budget Deficit
• U.S. Budget Deficit Hit $3.1 Trillion Amid Virus Spending Surge By Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, Oct. 16, 2020
  
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• Government Debt
• Guess How Much This Debt Ceiling Nonsense Is Costing Us By Betsey Stevenson, The New York Times, June 5, 2023
  
• How Bond Investing Can Still (Sometimes) Fail | WSJ Wall Street Journal, YouTube, April 24, 2023
  
• See how the national debt grew to $31 trillion By Jeff Stein, The Washington Post, March 6, 2023
  
• How the U.S. Government Amassed $31 Trillion in Debt By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, January 22, 2023
• U.S. National Debt Tops $30 Trillion as Borrowing Surged Amid Pandemic By Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, Feb. 1, 2022
  
• The National Debt: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) LastWeekTonight YouTube Channel, April 5, 2021
  
• We Have Crossed the Line Debt Hawks Warned Us About for Decades By Matt Phillips, The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2020
  
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