Regulation

• California’s Scary Product Warning Labels Might Be Working, Study Says By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, February 12, 2025 [A study published Wednesday in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that California’s right-to-know law, which requires companies to warn people about harmful chemicals in their products, has swayed many companies to stop using those chemicals altogether.]
• Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan: The 60 Minutes Interview 60 Minutes, YouTube, September 23, 2024
  
• This Port Strike Is the October Surprise Our Election Didn’t Need By Clifford Winston, The New York Times, October 1, 2024 [Good discussion of the regulation of U.S. shipping and ports.]
• To Cut Cancer Risks, E.P.A. Limits Pollution From Chemical Plants By Lisa Friedman, The New York Times, April 9, 2024
  
• All-In Summit: Bill Gurley presents 2,851 Miles All-In Podcast, YouTube Channel, September 15, 2023
  
• Silicon Valley Bank Fails After Run on Deposits By Emily Flitter and Rob Copeland, The New York Times, March 10, 2023
  
•  Confronting Uncertainty in Climate Policy By Lars Peter Hansen, Chicago Booth Review, July 26, 2022
  
• Business Strategies and Competition Policy By Jason Furman, Twitter, May 16, 2022
  
• Why Internet Access Is Slow And Costly In The U.S. CNBC YouTube Channel, October 6, 2021
  
• Once Tech’s Favorite Economist, Now a Thorn in Its Side By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 20, 2021
  
• Why the Markets Need a Strong Government Hand By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, April 2, 2021
  
• Et Tu, Ted? Why Deregulation Failed By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, February 22, 2021
  
• The Economic Case for Regulating Social Media By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, Feb. 11, 2021
  
• E.U. fines drug makers for keeping cheap medicine off market By Associated Press, November 26, 2020
• Antitrust
• How One Company Maintained a Monopoly on U.S. Fire Retardant By Chris Hamby, The New York Times, August 6, 2025
•  Is Apple an Illegal Monopoly? Antitrust Lawyer Breaks Down U.S. v. Apple The Wall Street Journal, YouTube, April 18, 2024
  
• The Chicken Tycoons vs. the Antitrust Hawks By H. Claire Brown, The New York Times Magazine, December 1, 2023
•  The Return of the Trustbusters By Jacob M. Schlesinger, The Wall Street Journal, August 27, 2021
  
• Break Up Big Chicken By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, August 17, 2021
  
• Antitrust in a Changing Economy and Changing Economics By Jason Furman, ProMarket (blog), November 30, 2018
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Taxes

• Red and Blue States Are Growing Further Apart on Income Tax By Richard Rubin  and Jeanne Whalen, The Wall Street Journal, March 15, 2026
• Google Guys Say Bye to California By Ryan Mac, Theodore Schleifer and Heather Knight, The New York Times, Jan. 9, 2026
• Tax the Rich, Like Me By Mitt Romney, The New York Times, Dec. 19, 2025
• ‘Tax the Rich,’ French Protesters Cry, as the Wealthy Push Back on Paying More By Liz Alderman, The New York Times, September 18, 2025
• ‘People are so angry’: how wealth tax became a battleground in Norway’s election By Juliette Garside, The Guardian, September 7, 2025
• [Optimal Taxation] By Rohit Lamba, x.com, July 11, 2025
• Correcting the Top 10 Tax Myths By Jessica Riedl, Manhattan Institute, December 12th, 2024
• It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires By Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, May 3, 2024
  
• Surprise! The federal government made a website that doesn’t stink. By Shira Ovide, The Washington Post, March 29, 2024
  
• The IRS has all our tax data. Why doesn’t its new website use it? By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, February 4, 2024
  
• How inheritance data secretly explains U.S. inequality By Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, November 10, 2023
  
• Debunking 5 Republican arguments against the global minimum tax  By Natasha Sarin and  Kimberly Clausing, The Washington Post, August 7, 2023
  
• Top Federal Individual Income Tax Rate 1913-2023 Tax Policy Center, July 31, 2023 
• Biden’s Better Plan to Tax the Rich By Jason Furman, The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2022
  
• This is Tax Evasion, Plain and Simple By Gabriel Zucman and Gus Wezerek, The New York Times, July 7, 2021
  
• Biden won a global tax rate. Now Americans wonder if it was a good deal. By Julie Zauzmer Weil, The Washington Post, July 5, 2023
  
• Wealth and Property Taxation in the United States by Stefanie Stantcheva, Twitter thread, June 30, 2023
  
• Lobbyists Begin Chipping Away at Biden’s $80 Billion I.R.S. Overhaul By Alan Rappeport, The New York Times, March 30, 2023
  
•  'Why we need a wealth tax' By Martin Sandbu, Financial Times, YouTube, September 6, 2022
  
• Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program. By Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times, July 19, 2021
  
• Opinion: Americans spend hours and hours preparing their taxes. We shouldn’t have to. by Helaine Olen, The Washington Post, May 15, 2021
  
•  Translating Tax Jargon Ahead of Tax Day: An Illustrated Guide to Common Terms By Randy Yeip, James Benedict, and Andrew Levinson, The Wall Street Journal, May 14, 2021
  
• Column: 23,000 households reported income over $10 million last year. The IRS audited seven By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2020
  
• Say Yes to Progressive Taxation By The Editorial Board, The New York Times, October 28, 2020
• Companies Save Billions in Taxes by Shifting Assets Around Globe By Richard Rubin, The Wall Street Journal, April 8, 2020
• The Liberal Economists Behind the Wealth Tax Debate By Jim Tankersley and Ben Casselman, The New York Times, Feb. 21, 2020
  
• How to Tax Our Way Back to Justice By Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, The New York Times, October 13, 2019
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Common Resources

• 27 Million Fewer Car Trips: Life After a Year of Congestion Pricing By Emily Badger, Larry Buchanan, Stefanos Chen, Asmaa Elkeurti and Winnie Hu, The New York Times, January 5, 2026
•  Who Poisoned Long Island's Water Supply? Thirteen and Newsday, YouTube, December 19, 2025
• The Colorado River is on the verge of crisis. No one has a solution. By Joshua Partlow, The Washington Post, December 22, 2025
• Humans Are Altering the Seas. Here’s What the Future Ocean Might Look Like. By Delger Erdenesanaa; Graphics by Mira Rojanasakul; Photographs and Video by Madeline Gray, The New York Times, Sept. 4, 2025
• Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York By Emily Badger, Stefanos Chen, Asmaa Elkeurti, Winnie Hu, Francesca Paris and Ethan Singer, The New York Times, May 11, 2025. Fewer cars. Faster travel. Less honking. And some questions we still can’t answer.
• We Have to Stop Underwriting People Who Move to Climate Danger Zones By Parinitha Sastry and Ishita Sen, The New York Times, January 16, 2025
  
• Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds By Austyn Gaffney, The New York Times, August 22, 2024
  
• Can Fees on Polluting Cars Clean the Air? London Has New Evidence. By Somini Sengupta, The New York Times, July 26, 2024
  
• Depletion of major groundwater source threatens Great Plains farming PBS NewsHour, June 24, 2024 [Tragedy of the Commons and the Ogallala Aquifer.]
  
• The Paradox Holding Back the Clean Energy Revolution By Ed Conway, The New York Times, February 22, 2024
  
• Strawberry Case Study: What If Farmers Had to Pay for Water? By Coral Davenport, The New York Times, December 28, 2023 ["With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, one part of California has tried essentially taxing groundwater. New research shows it’s working."]
  
• The Struggle to Conserve Threatened Forests in Haiti By Ekpali Saint, Earth.org, Dec 30, 2022 [Has a stunning picture of the Haiti-Dominican Republic border.]
  
• As Groundwater Dwindles, Powerful Players Block Change By Christopher Flavelle and Mira Rojanasakul, The New York Times, November 24, 2023
  
• In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air By Brad Plumer, The New York Times, November 9, 2023 [Government subsides and carbon credits at work.]
  
• When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics By Christopher Ketcham, The Intercept, October 29, 2023
  
• Whales, From Above By Ellie Duke with Photographs and Video by Sutton Lynch, The New York Times, Sept. 17, 2023 [The photographer Sutton Lynch is documenting a dramatic turning point off the coast of Long Island — a resurgence of sea life after decades of depletion.]
  
• Air Quality Life Index 
• America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow  By Mira Rojanasakul, Christopher Flavelle, Blacki Migliozzi and Eli Murray, The New York Times, Aug. 28, 2023 [Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed.]
• Five Takeaways From Our Investigation Into America’s Groundwater Crisis By Mira Rojanasakul and Christopher Flavelle, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023
• Uncharted Waters By David Leonhardt, The New York Times, Aug. 29, 2023 [The threat to groundwater is a classic tragedy of the commons.]
• The richest Americans account for 40 percent of U.S. climate emissions By Kasha Patel, The Washington Post, August 17, 2023
  
• A Climate Warning from the Cradle of Civilization By Alissa J. Rubin with photographs by Bryan Denton, The New York Times, July 29, 2023
  
• Climate Shocks Are Making Parts of America Uninsurable. It Just Got Worse. By Christopher Flavelle, Jill Cowan and Ivan Penn, The New York Times, May 31, 2023
  
• Revealed: more than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets by biggest provider are worthless, analysis shows By Patrick Greenfield, The Guardian, January 18, 2023
  
• Once an Open Sewer, New York Harbor Now Teems With Life. Thank the Clean Water Act. By John Waldman, December 30, 2022
  
• The gold-mining city that is destroying a sacred Venezuelan mountain By Samantha Schmidt, Ana Vanessa Herrero and Janice Kai Chen, TheWashington Post, December 6, 2022
  
• Herman Daly, professor who introduced ecology to economics, dies at 84 By Emily Langer, The Washington Post, November 4, 2022
  
• The Amazon, undone: A failure of enforcement  By Story by Terrence McCoy and Photos by Rafael Vilela, The Washington Post, Aug. 30, 2022
  
• Carbon Offsets By John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, YouTube, August 22, 2022
  
• This Pioneering Economist Says Our Obsession With Growth Must End By David Marchese, The New York Times, July 17, 2022
  
• How Demand for Twigs Is Bringing Down a Rainforest  By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, July 14, 2022
•  Raft by Raft, a Rainforest Loses Its Trees By Dionne Searcey and Ashley Gilbertson, The New York Times, June 14, 2022
  
• Devouring the rainforest By Terrence McCoy and Julia Ledur, The Washington Post, April 29, 2022
  
• How do carbon markets work? The Economist YouTube Channel, October 1, 2021
  
• China Opened a National Carbon Market. Here’s Why It Matters. By Chris Buckley, The New York Times, July 16, 2021
  
• New Carbon Market Pays Southern Pine-Growers Not to Cut By Ryan Dezember, The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2021
  
• ‘There’s a red flag here’: how an ethanol plant is dangerously polluting a US village By Carey Gillam, The Guardian, 10 Jan 2021
  
•  ‘The Fish Rots From the Head’: How a Salmon Crisis Stoked Russian Protests By Anton Troianovski with Photographs by Sergey Ponomarev, The New York Times, Aug. 15, 2020
  

Finance

• The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way. By Oren Cass, The New York Times, February 6, 2026
• What Is a Money Market Account? By Miranda Marquit, The Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2025
• Now on the College Course Menu: Personal Finance By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, January 10, 2025
  
• Massachusetts, Money, and Inflation-Linked Notes By Daniel Dematos, The Tontine Coffee House, August 19, 2024
  
• Growth Stocks. Value Stocks. What Do Those Labels Mean? By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, May 10, 2024
  
• Wall St. Loves to Guess, but Nobody Knows What the Market Will Do in 2024 By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, December 23, 2023 ["So-called stock forecasts don’t deserve the name, our columnist says. Wall Street’s track record is horrendous."] 
• How Does the World’s Largest Hedge Fund Really Make Its Money? By Rob Copeland, The New York Times, November 1, 2023
  
• A ‘Shadow’ Lending Market in the U.S., Funded by Insurance Premiums By Maureen Farrell, The New York Times, October 4, 2023
  
• Harry Markowitz (1927-2023): Bringing Finance Into Economics By Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist, June 26, 2023
  
• Harry Markowitz, Nobel-Winning Pioneer of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dies at 95 By Robert D. Hershey Jr., The New York Times, June 25, 2023
  
• Risky Bet on Crypto and a Run on Deposits Tank Signature Bank By Matthew Goldstein and Emily Flitter, The New York Times, March 12, 2023 [Regulators said keeping open the 24-year-old institution, which held deposits from law firms and real estate companies, could threaten the financial system’s stability.]
  
• The Crypto Collapse and the End of the Magical Thinking That Infected Capitalism By Mihir A. Desai, The New York Times, January 16, 2023
  
• Inflation bonds are earning eye-popping rates: 9.62 percent. By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, May 4, 2022
  
• Nobel-winning stock market theory used to help save coral reefs By Karen McVeigh, The Guardian, 28 Nov 2021
  
• Inflation Bonds Are Getting a Big Rate Bump By Ann Carrns, The Nw York Times, Nov. 4, 2021
  
• Only 35% Pass Wall St.’s Toughest Test. How Much Does That Matter? By Lananh Nguyen, The New York Times, September 30, 2021 
• Stock, Bond and Real Estate Prices Are All Uncomfortably High By Robert J. Shiller, The New York Times, October 1, 2021
  
• Is a home warranty a waste or a smart buy? By Anthony Giorgianni and Kevin Brasler, The Washington Post, September 21, 2021
  
• The Safe, High-Return Trade Hiding in Plain Sight By Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal, May 28, 2021
  
• What happened with GameStop? By Alexis Goldstein, Markets Weekly, 28 Jan 2021
  
• We Buy A Junk Bond Planet Money (podcast), September 9, 2020
• The Murderer, The Boy King, And The Invention Of Modern Finance Planet Money (podcast), September 4, 2020
• Mutual Fund Winners Don’t Stay Ahead for Long By Jeff Sommer, The New York Times, July 31, 2020
• Course Materials
• empirical asset pricing By Ralph Koijen and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, 2021
  
• YouTube
  
• Emil Verner on Banking Crises, Credit Booms, and the Rise of Populism Mercatus Center, YouTube, Nov. 18, 2024
  
• Alex Tabarrok on DEFI Decentralized Finance - Crypto and Blockchain Macmillan Learning, YouTube, February 23, 2022
  
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Myron S. Scholes by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 28, 2018
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Jeremy Siegel by Andrew Lo and Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, November 2, 2018
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert C. Merton by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 15, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Robert J. Shiller by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, June 9, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Harry M. Markowitz by Steve Foerster, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 23, 2017
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: Eugene F. Fama by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, December 15, 2016
• In Pursuit of the Perfect Porfolio: William F. Sharpe by Andrew Lo, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, YouTube channel, May 26, 2016 
• The Secret History of the Credit Card Frontline PBS YouTube Channel, November 23, 2004
• Retirement
• Center for Retirement Research at Boston College 
• Retirement on Pause: High Costs Push Older Americans Back to Work By AARP Press Team, February 05, 2026
• The typical U.S. worker has $955 saved for retirement National Institute on Retirement Security, Feb 6, 2026 [Report]
• How America withstands financial hardships By Jeffrey W. Clark, Vanguard, March 2026
• 4 Ways to Enjoy Your Savings in Retirement Without Going Broke By Lisa Rabasca Roepe, The New York Times, Feb. 28, 2026
• Social Security Disability, a Protection for Some Workers, Is at a Crossroads By Mark Miller, The New York Times, December 13, 2025
• You Saved and Saved for Retirement. Now You Need a Plan to Cash Out. By Brian J. O'Connor, The New York Times, July 12, 2025
• Retirees, Get Ready to Need Long-Term Care. Here’s What to Know. By Mark Miller, The New York Times, May 24, 2025
• The 401(k) Has Reached a Tipping Point in Its Takeover of American Retirement By Anne Tergesen, The Wall Street Journal, February 5, 2025
  
• Going Solo: How to Plan for Retirement When You’re on Your Own By Diane Harris, The New York Times, September 21, 2024
• You’re Retired. What’s the Best Way to Withdraw Your Savings? By Brian J. O'Connor, The New York Times, December 28, 2024
  
• Why Do So Many Americans Pass Up Bigger Social Security Checks? By Peter Coy, The New York Times, November 11, 2024
  
• A look at the Social Security funding gap and ways to fix it PBS NewsHour, YouTube, August 12, 2024
  
• How Much of My Paycheck Should I Save? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, June 21, 2024
  
• Was the 401(k) a Mistake? By Michael Steinberger, The New York Times Magazine, May 8, 2024
• What to Do When Your 401(k) Leaves Something to Be Desired By Mark Miller, The New York Times, April 19, 2024
• How Much Do I Really Need to Retire? By Tanza Loudenback, Buy Side from WSJ, December 21, 2023
• How Much Should I Have in Savings? By Steve Garmhausen, The Wall Street Journal, February 19, 2023
• How to Enjoy Retirement Without Going Broke By Peter Coy, The New  York Times, August 27, 2021
• How IRAs Work And Why They Are More Popular Than 401(k)s CNBC YouTube Channel, August 12, 2021
• How 401(k) Plans Work And Why They Killed Pensions CNBC YouTube Channel, March 24, 2021
  
• The Perfect Retirement Investment Nobody Wants By Peter Coy, The New York Times, February 17, 2023
  
• For More Certainty in Your Retirement Portfolio, Consider Annuities By Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, February 7, 2023
  
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Education

• Mom, Dad, I Want to Be a Welder By Callie Holtermann, The New York Times, July 14, 2026
• For less than $100, I clicked my way toward a college degree in days By Todd Wallack, The Washington Post, June 24, 2026
• What Does It All Mean? Once a Year, French Students Try to Explain. By Catherine Porter, The New York Times, June 19, 2026
• Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline’ By Claire Cain Miller, Francesca Paris and Sarah Mervosh, The New York Times, May 13, 2026
• U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops By Sarah Mervosh, Francesca Paris and Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, May 8, 2026
• Students are speeding through their online degrees in weeks, alarming educators By Todd Wallack, The Washington Post, April 19, 2026
• You Can’t Game Your Way to a Real Education By Molly Worthen, The New York Times, April 19, 2026
• Hampshire College Will Close Amid Student Enrollment Declines By Mark Arsenault, The New York Times, April 14, 2026
• Some of the most popular graduate degrees don’t pay off financially, study finds By Todd Wallack, The Washington Post, March 31, 2026
• Do Graduate Degrees Pay Off? By Joseph G. Altonji and Zhengren Zhu, PEER Center, March 2026
• A.I. Is Coming to Class. These Professors Want to Ease Your Worries. By Sharon Otterman, The New York Times, January 17, 2026
• College Board Cancels Tool for Finding Low-Income High Achievers By Stephanie Saul and Dana Goldstein, The New York Times, September 4, 2025
•  The cost of college: Is it worth it, what’s the payoff, and does it buy more than money? Justin Wolfers YouTube, August 29, 2025
• For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia By Karina Elwood, The Washington Post, August 26, 2025
• Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis. By Clay Shirky, The New York Times, Aug. 26, 2025
• Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, The New York Times, Aug. 21, 2025
• Social media opens a window to traditional trades for young workers By Taylor Telford, The Washington Post, August 13, 2025
• U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon Directs National Center for Education Statistics to Collect Universities’ Data on Race Discrimination in Admissions U.S. Department of Education, August 7, 2025
• Data source? 
• Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification By Aatish Bhatia, Claire Cain Miller and Josh Katz, The New York Times, July 24, 2023
•  100 Students in a School Meant for 1,000: Inside Chicago’s Refusal to Deal With Its Nearly Empty Schools  by Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat, and Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, June 13, 2025
• To fix our public schools, follow ... D.C.? Yes, you heard that right. By Eric A. Hanushek and Margaret E. Raymond, The Washington Post, June 9, 2025
• Has America Given Up on Children’s Learning? By Dana Goldstein, The New York Times, May 10, 2025
• Affirmative Action Is Gone. Can Class-Based Admissions Replace It? By James Traub, The New York Times, March 24, 2025 [Review of "Class Matters" by Richard D. Kahlenberg]
• Why fewer young men are choosing to pursue college degrees PBS NewsHour, YouTube, June 25, 2024
  
•  Ignore the sticker price: How have college prices really changed? By Phillip Levine, Brookings, April 12, 2024
  
• That Giant College ‘Sticker’ Price Isn’t What Most Students Pay By Ann Carrns, The New York Times, April 12, 2024
  
• Why Is Paying for College So Complicated? By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, January 18, 2024
  
• How Do I Pay For College? Your questions, answered by experts. By The New York Times, January 12, 2024
  
• New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education By Claire Cain Miller, The New York Times, October 23, 2023 
• Homeschooling Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO), YouTube, October 4, 2023
  
• What Most American Schools Do Wrong By Adam Grant, The New York Times, October 22, 2023
  
• Americans Are Losing Faith in the Value of College. Whose Fault Is That? By Paul Tough, The New York Times Magazine, September 5, 2023
  
• When Financial Independence Isn’t Always the Goal By Sara Murphy, The New York Times, September 2, 2023 [Many Iranian Americans say their families place a high premium on education — sometimes at the expense of early financial independence — potentially complicating their financial futures.]
• 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 Truth about College Costs By Dan Currell, National Affairs, Number 56, Summer 2023
  
• Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter By Ben Wildavsky, The New York Times, August 21, 2023
  
• Study of Elite College Admissions Data Suggests Being Very Rich Is Its Own Qualification By Aatish Bhatiya, Claire Cain Miller, and Josh Katz, The New York Times, July 24, 2023
• American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate The Economist, July 23, 2023
  
• Trump’s Justices Didn’t Doom Affirmative Action. Demography Did. By Christopher Caldwell, The New York Times, June 8, 2023
  
• College is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle By Nick Anderson, The Washington Post, May 20, 2023
  
• You Learn the Value of a College Degree When You Live Without One By Christopher Zara, The New York Times, April 26, 2023
  
• Opinion Bottom line, a college degree is worth the cost and then some By Christopher L. Eisgruber, The Washington Post, April 26, 2023
  
• The College Data You Probably Can’t Find, but Definitely Need By Ron Lieber, The New York Times, April 15, 2023
  
• Affirmative action in college admissions doesn’t work — but it could By Roland G. Fryer, Jr., The Washington Post, October 30, 2022
  
•  Stanford Law Introduces Income-Share Agreements By Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed, September 19, 2022
  
• Princeton to cover all college bills for families making up to $100,000 By Nick Anderson, The Washington Post, September 8, 2022
  
• The most-regretted (and lowest-paying) college majors by Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post, September 2, 2022 
  
• What Is School For? The New York Times, September 1, 2022 [Collection of opinion articles]
  
• Want to fix the federal student loan system? Kick out scammy schools. By Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post, August 29, 2022
  
• Why I Changed My Mind on Student Debt Forgiveness By Susan Dynarski, The New York Times, August 30, 2022
  
• Why Student Debt Relief Isn’t Elitist By Paul Krugman, The New York Times, August 29, 2022
  
• Biden’s Student Loan Plan Sets Off Fierce Debate Among Economists By Jim Tankersley, The New York Times, Aug. 30, 2022
  
•  Student debt: Is a degree worth the financial strain? By David Pogue, CBS Sunday Morning, YouTube, May 15, 2022
  
• I Am Not Proof of the American Dream By Tara Westover, The New York Times, February 2, 2022 
• “Educated” Author: College Is Unaffordable and Unimaginable Amanpour and Company, YouTube, February 9, 2022
  
• Drop in college enrollment threatens to cause long-term economic, social consequences By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, January 22, 2022
  
• More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy. By Justin Wolfers, The New York Times, November 23, 2021
  
• The Fight Over Tenure Is Not Really About Tenure By Molly Worthen, The New York Times, September 20, 2021
  
•  Should More Student Loan Borrowers Use Income-Driven Repayment Plans? by Sarah Gunn, Nicholas Haltom and Urvi Neelakantan, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Economic Brief, June 2021, No. 21-20
  
• More colleges and universities outsource services to for-profit companies By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, Jan. 8, 2021
  
• More info is available about which college majors pay off, but students aren’t using it By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, Dec. 25, 2020
  
• More people with bachelor’s degrees go back to school to learn skilled trades By Jon Marcus, The Washington Post, November 20, 2020 
• College Choices and Success: Four Questions for an Economist By Kristie Engemann, Open Vault Blog, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, November 18, 2020
  
• For Millions Deep in Student Loan Debt, Bankruptcy Is No Easy Fix By Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard, The New York Times, Nov. 7, 2020
  
• The Only Way to Save Higher Education Is to Make It Free By Claire Bond Potter, The New York Times, June 5, 2020
• Don’t Kid Yourself: Online Lectures Are Here to Stay By Robert H. Frank, The New York Times, June 5, 2020
• The End of College as We Knew It? By Frank Bruni, The New York Times, June 4, 2020
• Risky Strategy by Many Private Colleges Leaves Them Exposed By Kevin Carey, The New York Times, May 28, 2020
  
• Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming  By Steve Lohr, The New York Times, May 26, 2020
• Income Share Agreements Looking Up  by Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution (blog), May 22, 2020
• Joshua Angrist: On charter schools, the elite illusion, and the "Stones Age" of econometrics Interview by David A. Price, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Econ Focus, First Quarter 2020
• Is Going to College Worth it?: VICE Podcast 031 Vice, YouTube, February 5, 2014
  

Public Goods

• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/climate/epa-human-life-value.html?smid=url-share By Maxine Joselow, The New York Times, January 21, 2026
• E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution By Maxine Joselow, The New York Times, January 12, 2026
• 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

• Whirlpool Abandoned Its Global Ambitions. Now It’s in a World of Hurt. By John Keilman, The Wall Street Journal, August 3, 2026
• The hottest AI models in Silicon Valley face a powerful source of competition By Miriam Waldvogel, The Washington Post, July 15, 2026
• Get Ready, America: Here Come China’s Food and Drink Chains By Daisuke Wakabayashi and Joy Dong, The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2025
• China Bought $12.6 Billion in U.S. Soybeans Last Year. Now, It’s $0. By Kevin Draper, The New York Times, September 25, 2025 [Retaliatory tariffs]
• A Move to the U.S. to Avoid Tariffs? There Are Trade-Offs. By Melissa Eddy, The New York Times, September 3, 2025
• The Real Reason Americans Worry About Trade By Peter S. Goodman, The New York Times, August 25, 2025
• Policy or Cudgel? A Trade Economist on Trump’s Hardball Tariffs. By Roger Lowenstein, The New York Times, July 11, 2025
• Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car By Michael Dunne, The New York Times, July 8, 2025
• 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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