Public Goods

• The Dream Was Universal Access to Knowledge. The Result Was a Fiasco. By David Streitfeld, The New York Times, August 13, 2023
  
• Putting a Dollar Value on Life? Governments Already Do  By Austin Frakt, The New York Times, May 11, 2020
• How Government Agencies Determine The Dollar Value Of Human Life (audio report) By Sarah Gonzalez, NPR, April 23, 2020

Globalization

• Tariffs Make the World Poorer and More Perilous By Eswar Prasad, The New York Times, June 5, 2025
• The Real Story of the ‘China Shock’ The jobs harm was largely local and temporary, while overall jobs and consumer welfare increased.   By  James J. Heckman  and  Hanming Fang, The Wall Street Journal,  May 27, 2025
• How Tariffs Work By June Kim, The New York Times, February 12, 2025
• Manufacturing Towns Hit by the ‘China Shock’ Bounced Back. The Workers Didn’t. By Justin Lahart, The Wall Street Journal, February 3, 2025
• How Trump’s Tariffs on China Changed U.S. Trade, in Charts By Inti Pacheco, The Wall Street Journal, November 25, 2024
  
• Sanctions crushed Syria’s elite. So they built a zombie economy fueled by drugs. By Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet, The Washington Post, July 25, 2024 
• How four U.S. presidents unleashed economic warfare across the globe By Jeff Stein and Federica Cocco, The Washington Post, July 25, 2024
• Buy American? Easier Said Than Done. By Jenna Sauers, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2024 [Review of “Making It in America,” by Rachel Slade.]
  
• Biden’s course for U.S. on trade breaks with Clinton and Obama By David J. Lynch, The Washington Post, August 27, 2023
  
• Why It Seems Everything We Knew About the Global Economy Is No Longer True By Patricia Cohen, The New York Times, June 18, 2023
  
• Opinion What women’s underwear tells us about our trade system By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, February 9, 2023
  
• Will remote work make it easier to ship white-collar jobs overseas? By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, August 26, 2022
  
• ‘What have we done?’: six years on, UK counts the cost of Brexit By Toby Helm, Robin McKie, James Tapper & Phillip Inman, The Observer, Sat 25 Jun 2022
  
• Economic Weapons of Mass Destruction By Raghuram G. Rajan, Project Syndicate, Mar 17, 2022 [On economic sanctions]
  
• Tweet by Douglas A. Irwin, Twitter, December 23, 2021
  
• The Persistence of the China Shock By David Autor, Ratioforskning YouTube Channel, November 3, 2021
  
• U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods didn’t bring companies back to the U.S., new research finds
  
  By Jiakun Jack Zhang and Samantha A. Vortherms, The Washington Post, September 22, 2021
  
• The British retailer Marks & Spencer blames Brexit as it closes French stores. By Eshe Nelson, The New York Times, Sept. 16, 2021 [Nice illustration of border effects.] 
• An anniversary for free traders The Economist, June 24, 2021
• Scottish fish prices ‘collapsing’ by as much as 80% due to Brexit bureaucracy, industry warns By Ben Chapman, The Independent, January 12, 2021
  
• U.S. trade policies have disproportionately harmed Black and Latino workers, not just the White working class Trump courted, researchers find By Tracy Jan, The Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2021
  
• The W.T.O. Is Having a Midlife Crisis By Farah Stockman, The New York Times, December 17, 2020
  
• The economic consequences of Sir Robert Peel: A quantitative assessment of the repeal of the Corn Laws By Douglas Irwin and Maksym Chepeliev, VoxEU, 09 December 2020 
  
• W.T.O. Says American Tariffs on China Broke Global Trade Rules By Ana Swanson, The New York Times, Sept. 15, 2020
  
• When Globalization Really Began By Christiane Bird, The New York Times, April 14, 2020 [Review of "THE YEAR 1000: When Explorers Connected the World — and Globalization Began" By Valerie Hansen]
• Data
• New Measures of Prices for Global Trade Commissioner's Corner (blog), Bureau of Labor Statistics, November 15, 2018. Data: https://www.bls.gov/mxp/home.htm
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Technology and R&D

• Your A.I. Radiologist Will Not Be With You Soon By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 14, 2025
• The Quest for A.I. ‘Scientific Superintelligence’ By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, March 10, 2025
• Everybody Is Talking About A.I. What the Heck Is It, Anyway? By Stephen Marche, The New York Times, January 31, 2024 ["Five best books about artificial intelligence."]
  
• The Billionaires Spending a Fortune to Lure Scientists Away From Universities By Rob Copeland, January 12, 2024
  
• Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon By Timothy B. Lee and San Trott, Understanding A.I. (blog), July 27, 2023
  
• Big Tech Is Bad. Big A.I. Will Be Worse. By Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, The New York Times, June 9, 2023
  
• How Much Regulation is Too Much? MIT IDE, April 12, 2023 [New research measures how French government regulation stymies innovation among smaller firms]
  
• What’s the Future for A.I.? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, March 31, 2023 [Where we’re heading tomorrow, next year and beyond.]
• How Should I Use A.I. Chatbots Like ChatGPT?  By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 30, 2023 [Large language models are already good at a wide variety of tasks.]
• What Makes A.I. Chatbots Go Wrong? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, March 29, 2023 [The curious case of the hallucinating software.]
• How Does ChatGPT Really Work? By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 28, 2023 [Learning how a “large language model” operates.]
• How to Become an Expert on A.I. By Kevin Roose and Cade Metz, The New York Times, April 4, 2023. [Part 1 of a five-part series on A.I.]
  
• How could AI impact developing economies? By Daniel Björkegren, March 27, 2023
• ChatGPT is about to revolutionize the economy. We need to decide what that looks like. By David Rotman, MIT Technology Review, March 25, 2023
  
• What Occupations Will ChatGPT Most Likely Impact? TAP, March 24, 2023
  
• The Brilliant Inventor Who Made Two of History’s Biggest Mistakes By Steven Johnson, The New York Times Magazine, March 17, 2023
  
• Fox News hosts, execs privately doubted 2020 conspiracy claims shared on air By Jeremy Barr and Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post, February 17, 2023
  
• ‘I want to destroy whatever I want’: Bing’s AI chatbot unsettles US reporter By Jonathan Yerushalmy, The Guardian, February 17, 2023
• A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, February 16, 2023
  
• How Smart Are the Robots Getting? By Cade Metz, The New York Times, January 20, 2023
  
• The Long Road to Driverless Trucks By Cade Metz, The New York Times, October 14, 2022
  
• A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? By Steven Johnson, The New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2022
  
• Bill Gates: How to Develop Life-Saving Drugs Much Faster By Bill Gates, The New York Times, April 15, 2022
• Save America’s Patent System By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, April 16, 2022
  
• The Latecomer's Guide to Crypto By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 19, 2022
  
• Economists Pin More Blame on Tech for Rising Inequality By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, January 12, 2022
  
• Juul Wanted to Disrupt Big Tobacco. Instead It Created an Epidemic of Addiction. By Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New York Times, May 25, 2021. [Review of "THE DEVIL’S PLAYBOOK: Big Tobacco, Juul, and the Addiction of a New Generation" By Lauren Etter]
  
• Debts, Deficits, and Patent Monopolies By Dean Baker, CEPR Blog, May 27, 2021
  
• The Robots Are Coming for Phil in Accounting By Kevin Roose, The New York Times, March 6, 2021
  
• The Ingredients For Innovation Farnam Street (blog), August 2020
  
• An exploration of ‘How Innovation Works’ By Jon Gertner, The Washington Post, June 18, 2020 [Review of “How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom” by Matt Ridley.]
  
• The Difference Between Copyrights, Trademarks and Patents By Alexander Webb, The New York Times, April 16, 2020