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December 2019

  1. The Story of Viner\’s Draftsman
  2. Judging Capitalism by its Operations and Socialism by its Aspirations: Sidney Hook
  3. C.S. Lewis on the Temptations of Mammon and Moloch
  4. "Jesus Christ is Free Trade, and Free Trade is Jesus Christ"
  5. Charles Dickens on Management and Labor
  6. Charles Dickens on Seeing the Poor
  7. When Coffee was the Newly Introduced Good Under Attack
  8. William McChesney Martin: Keep the Economists in the Basement
  9. "Stop Referring to a Coming Post-antibiotic Era—iI’s Already Here:" Centers for Disease Control
  10. How Big is the Space Economy?
  11. With the Rise of Index Funds, Who Watches the Companies?
  12. Prescription Drug Prices are Falling (says the Consumer Price Index)
  13. Interview with Douglas Holtz-Eakin: Career, Budgets, Deficits
  14. Update on Carbon Capture and Storage
  15. Interview with Daron Acemoglu: Wellsprings of Growth
  16. Paul Volcker: 1927-2019
  17. Why Mississippi Deserves More Federal Aid, and Massachusetts Less
  18. Revisiting the Industrial Policy Question in East Asia
  19. About Millennials
  20. Whose Charitable Giving (And for What Purposes) Gets a Tax Break?

November 2019

  1. Production, Use and Fate of All Plastics Ever Made
  2. Thanksgiving Origins: Sarah Josepha Hale Writes to Abraham Lincoln
  3. The Dominance of Peoria in the Processed Pumpkin Market
  4. An Economist Chews Over Thanksgiving
  5. Advice on Writing from Amitabh Chandra, Editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics
  6. Workplace Wellness Policies: Disappointing Evidence
  7. The Return of the Patent Thicket
  8. Why Has China\’s Trade Surplus (Just About) Gone Away?
  9. Enhancing Federal Tax Collections by $100 Billion Annually
  10. interview with Cass Sunstein: On Abrupt and Unpredictable Social Change
  11. China\’s Belt and Road Initiative: Could It All Come Crashing Down?
  12. Is Opposition to Immigration Primarily Economic or Cultural?
  13. Can Job Training Work for Mature Adults?
  14. Is Trade Still a Viable Path to Development? World Development Report 2020
  15. Some Economics of the Clean Water Act
  16. The Declining Share of Veterans Among Prime-Age Men: The Centennial of Armistice Day
  17. US Dependence on Imported Minerals
  18. Minimum Wages and Overtime Rules
  19. The Roundup Case: Problems with Implementing Science-Based Policy
  20. Flexible vs. Deep: What are the Ties that Bind a Firm Together?
  21. Some Thoughts about Populism

October 2019

  1. Interview with Maureen Cropper: Environmental Economics
  2. Fall 2019 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  3. The Hearing Aid Example: Why Technology Doesn\’t Reduce Trade
  4. Remembering the Cadillac Tax
  5. Tips for Academic Writing from Cormac McCarthy
  6. The Health Costs of Global Air Pollution
  7. Interview with Emmanuel Farhi: Global Safe Assets and Macro as Aggregated Micro
  8. Fentanyl and Synthetic Opioids: What’s Happening, What’s Next
  9. The Rise of Global Trade in Services
  10. Neuromyths about the Brain and Learning
  11. A Nobel for the Experimental Approach to Global Poverty for Banerjee, Duflo, and Kremer
  12. Some Income Tax Data on the Top Incomes
  13. Video Clips of Economists Explaining for Intro Econ Classes
  14. Opinions about Semicolons
  15. Interview with Hal Varian: An Academic Goes to Google
  16. When Hayek Opposed the Nobel Prize in Economics
  17. The Economics Nobel: Who Might Have Won?
  18. Foreign Exchange Markets: $6.6 Trillion Per Day
  19. Waste and Worse in US Health Care Spending
  20. The Jobs Problem in India
  21. The Pedagogical Lessons and Tradeoffs of Online Higher Education
  22. Challenges Facing the "Arab Development Model"
  23. The Dispersion of High- and Low-Productivity Firms Within an Industry
  24. Are CLOs the New CDOs?

September 2019

  1. Trade: The Perils of Overstating Benefits and Costs
  2. Employment Patterns for Older Americans
  3. The Charitable Contributions Deduction and Its Historical Evolution
  4. Save the Whales, Reduce Atmospheric Carbon
  5. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Interest Rate Cut
  6. Wage Trends: Tell Me How You Want to Measure, and I\’ll Give You an Answer
  7. Is the US Dollar Fading as the World\’s Dominant Currency?
  8. A Road Stop on the Development Journey
  9. When the University of Chicago Dropped Football
  10. Classroom vs. Smartphone: One Instructor Surrenders
  11. Is the US Economy Having an Engels\’ Pause?
  12. Latin America: Missing Firms, Slow Growth, and Inequality
  13. Universal Basic Income–Combined With What Else?
  14. China and India Build Internal Supply Chains
  15. US Multinationals Bring Foreign Earnings Back Home
  16. Satellite Data Economics, Night Lights, and More
  17. Nonrenewable Resources: The Pattern of Higher Extraction, Falling Prices
  18. Shifting Visions of the Good Job
  19. Marge Piercy on Why Work Matters
  20. Taming the Demon of Work
  21. Daniel Coit Gilman and Twelve Themes for a University

August 2019

  1. H.L. Mencken on Capitalism vs. Socialism
  2. When the Desire for Learning Hit Winston Churchill
  3. "The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered"
  4. Charles Schultze: The "Do No Direct Harm" Rule
  5. Thorstein Veblen: Economics "is a `Science\’ of Complaisant Interpretations, Apologies, and Projected Remedies"
  6. Robert Nozick: Utility Monsters and Experience Machines
  7. Dorothy Sayers: On Susceptibility to Propaganda and Advertisement
  8. George Stigler: Market Failure Much Smaller than Political Failure
  9. How Adam Smith\’s Idea of the Division of Labor Led to the Digital Computer
  10. W.H. Auden: "Thou shalt not sit/ With statisticians nor commit/ A social science"
  11. Stephen King: ""The Editor is Always Right … To Edit is Divine"
  12. The Iron Law of Megaprojects vs. the Hiding Hand Principle
  13. Alfred Marshall in 1885: "The Present Position of Economics"
  14. Tradeoffs of "Free" Higher Education: Finland, South Korea, England, United States
  15. What the IMF Thinks about China\’s Exchange Rate and Trade Balance
  16. Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
  17. Limits for Corporate Bigness on Acquisitions, Patents, and Politics
  18. Uwe Reinhardt on High US Health Care Costs
  19. Paying Kidney Donors: Covering Expenses?
  20. Innovation Policy: Federal Support for R&D Falls as its Importance Rises
  21. China and Currency Manipulation
  22. Some Thoughts on Markups
  23. Administrative Data Moves Toward Center Stage
  24. Summer 2019 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online

July 2019

  1. Can Market-Price Housing Construction Help Low-Price Affordability?
  2. China\’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Perils of Being a Subprime Global Lender
  3. India Economic Survey: Challenges Accepted
  4. Yes, You Can Patent an Invention that Doesn\’t Exist
  5. Payments from China for Foreign Intellectual Property
  6. Some Snapshots of University Endowments
  7. Antitrust in the Digital Economy
  8. Interview with Enrico Moretti on the Rising Importance of Location
  9. Global Perspective on Markets for Sand
  10. Why Don\’t People Buy More Annuities?
  11. China\’s Changing Relationship with the World Economy
  12. Is AI Just Recycled Intelligence, Which Needs Economics to Help It Along?
  13. Raising the Minimum Wage: CBO Weighs in
  14. US Multinationals Expand their Foreign-based Research and Development
  15. "Loyalty to the Nation All the Time, Loyalty to the Government When it Deserves It."
  16. James Truslow Adams and the Origins of "The American Dream"
  17. George Washington on the Dangers of Political Partisanship
  18. Is the Health Care Policy Focus Shifting from Access to Cost?
  19. Global Population Projections: Parameters Shaping the Future
  20. Food Stamps: Evolution and Rising Take-up Rates

June 2019

  1. Social Science Research on Terrorism
  2. Managing Alligators and Kangaroos with Market Incentives
  3. The Shifting Wealth of Nations: Thoughts on Argentina and Socialism
  4. Where US Government Debt is Headed
  5. Three Years since the Brexit Vote: Looking Back
  6. A Timepass World
  7. Is Hydrogen the Storage and Carrying Technology for Carbon-Free Energy?
  8. The Economic Value of Household Production: 1965-2017
  9. Interview with Rachel Glennerster: Development and Aid
  10. Mortality Rate of Children Over the Last Two Millennia
  11. Marijuana Policy: Choosing Between Disastrous or Unpalatable
  12. The "Right" and "Wrong" Kind of Artificial Intelligence for Labor Markets
  13. Some Snapshots of the Global Energy Situation
  14. Where Will America Find Caregivers as its Elderly Population Rises?
  15. The Global Paper Industry: Still on the Rise
  16. Interview with William “Sandy” Darity Jr.: Inequality, Race, Stratification, and More
  17. Japan: The Challenges of Aging, Slow Growth, and Government Debt
  18. Some Snapshots of the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households
  19. The US-Chinese Trade War: Why Now? At What Cost?
  20. Pareidolia: When Correlations are Truly Meaningless

May 2019

  1. How Economic Statistics Are Being Transformed
  2. Why Call it "Socialism"?
  3. Why Did the US Labor Share of Income Fall So Quickly?
  4. What if the Argument Was About Whether to Remove Congestion Pricing?
  5. Time for Fiscal Rules?
  6. Origins of "Microeconomics" and "Macroeconomics"
  7. Strengthening Automatic Stabilizers
  8. Daniel Hamermesh: How Do People Spend Time?
  9. Time for a Return of Large Corporation Research Labs?
  10. Does the Federal Reserve Talk Too Much?
  11. Alice Rivlin, 1931-2019, In Her Own Words
  12. Are Firms Doing a Lousy Job in How they Hire?
  13. The Origin of "Third World" and Some Ruminations
  14. How To Cut US Child Poverty in Half
  15. Low-Skill Male Workers: A Black Spot on the Rosy Employment Outlook
  16. Snapshots of US Income Taxation Over Time
  17. The High Costs of Renewable Portfolio Standards
  18. Is Something Different this Time about the Effect of Technology on Labor Markets?
  19. How Single Payer Requires Many Choices
  20. Spring 2019 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  21. The Squeezed Middle Class: An International View
  22. Globalization: More Than Before, But Less than You Think?

April 2019

  1. A Wrap-Up for the TARP
  2. Did Disability Insurance Just Fix Itself?
  3. When Special Interests Play in the Sunlight
  4. Washing Machine Tariffs: Who Paid? Who Benefits?
  5. Financial Managers and Misconduct
  6. Two Can Live 1.414 Times as Cheaply as One: Household Equivalence Scales
  7. The Statute of Limitations on College Grades
  8. One Case for Keeping "Statistical Significance:" Beats the Alternatives
  9. When Did the Blacksmiths Disappear?
  10. When US Market Access is No Longer a Trump Card
  11. The Utterly Predictable Problem of Long-Run US Budget Deficits
  12. US Attitudes Toward Federal Taxes: A Rising Share of "About Right"
  13. The Captain Swing Riots; Workers and Threshing Machines in the 1830s
  14. Building Worker Skills in a Time of Rapid Technological Change
  15. Interview with Preston McAfee: Economists and Tech Companies
  16. Snapshots of Trade Imbalances: US in Global Context
  17. Have the Identification Police Become Overly Intrusive?
  18. Four Snapshots of China\’s Growth and Inequality
  19. "Bias Has Been Overestimated at the Expense of Noise:" Daniel Kahneman
  20. Replacing LIBOR: An International Overview
  21. Some LGBT Economics in High Income Countries
  22. The Unfairness of Money Bail
  23. Federal Employee Pay: A Trial Balloon

March 2019

  1. Market Shares for Browsers and Platforms
  2. Some US Social Indicators Since 1960
  3. Interview With Greg Mankiw at the Dallas Fed
  4. Can Undergraduates Be Taught to Think Like Economists?
  5. Child Care and Working Mothers
  6. Geoengineering: The Governance Problem
  7. Time to Abolish "Statistical Significance"?
  8. What Did Gutenberg\’s Printing Press Actually Change?
  9. The Remarkable Renaissance in US Fossil Fuel Production
  10. Wealth, Consumption, and Income: Patterns Since 1950
  11. Reentry from Out of the Labor Market
  12. Alternatives to the Four-Year College Track for Everyone Else
  13. Paul Cheshire: "Cities are the Most Welfare Enhancing Human Innovation In History"
  14. Some Peculiarities of Labor Markets: Is Antitrust an Answer?
  15. Greg Mankiw on Textbooks, and Some Reactions
  16. The Story of William Lee and His Knitting Machine
  17. Sources of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions
  18. US Imposes Tariffs, and the 2018 Trade Deficit Rises: Lessons?
  19. Benjamin Franklin and the Origins of Daylight Savings Time
  20. Economics of Daylight Savings Time
  21. Economic Tidbits: BPEA — Spring 2019
  22. Why Economists Usually Oppose New Light Rail and Subways–and Other Thoughts on Urban Transportation
  23. US Corporate Debt: Warning Signs?
  24. Some Economic Consequences of the Near-Extinction of the Buffalo
  25. Work is What Funds Retirement
  26. What Newfangled Rent Control Looks Like
  27. Opioid Crisis

February 2019

  1. Some Snapshots and Thoughts about US Entrepreneurship
  2. The Eternal Majority Against the Way Things Are: Brexit, Health Care, Socialism:
  3. Gross National Happiness and Macro Indicators in Bhutan
  4. Universal Basic Income: Preliminary Results from the Finnish Experiment
  5. China\’s High Savings Rate
  6. SOFR Replaces LIBOR
  7. Some Proposals for Improving Work, Wages, and Skills for Americans
  8. Capitalism with Scandinavian Characteristics
  9. Thinking about Pay-What-You-Can Restaurants
  10. Interview with Deidre McCloskey on Economic Growth and Liberal Values:
  11. Economics of Medieval Guilds
  12. Why US Financial Regulators Are Unprepared for the Next Financial Crisis
  13. Building Connections with Active Labor Market Policies
  14. How to Reduce Health Care Costs?
  15. Some Puzzles About Asset Returns in the Long Run
  16. Why Did Simon Kuznets Want to Leave Military Spending out of GDP?
  17. Why Have Other Countries Been Dropping Their Wealth Taxes?
  18. 58 Episodes of Hyperinflation (Venezuela is #23)
  19. The Puzzle of the US Productivity Slowdown

January 2019

  1. Winter 2019 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  2. Do We Even Know If the Gig Economy Is Growing?
  3. Budget Deficits and Debt: Background and Tradeoffs
  4. Mexico Misallocated
  5. A Plan to Fix Social Security
  6. Some Economics of Foot-Binding
  7. Some Economics for Martin Luther King Day
  8. Trump, Year Two: The Economic Record
  9. How Does China\’s Higher GDP Translate into National Power?
  10. What Message is the Beveridge Curve Sending?
  11. The Flynn Effect (Rising IQ Scores Over Time) Reverses
  12. What if Most Americans Don\’t Care That Deeply about Trade?
  13. A Global Human Capital Index
  14. Daniel Kahneman: “People Don’t Want to be Happy”
  15. Indonesia Rising
  16. Some Economics of Gun Regulation
  17. When Alan Greenspan Worried about Overly Large Budget Surpluses
  18. Steel Tariffs: An Utterly Unsurprising Cost/Benefit Calculation
  19. Macaulay on Economic Progress, 100 Years Before Keynes
  20. "You Cannot Convict Your Opponent of Error; You Can Only Convince Him Of It"
  21. "The Vulgar Mistake of Dreaming that I am Persecuted Whenever I am Contradicted"

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December 2018

  1. Joan Robinson on Poets, Mathematicians, Economists, and Adam Smith
  2. Academics, Knowledge, Articles, Journals, Practitioners
  3. "The Man who Despairs When Others Hope… is Admired as a Sage"
  4. Is Loneliness Rising?
  5. "To be Happy at Home is the Ultimate Result of All Ambition"
  6. Charles Dickens on Seeing the Poor
  7. Charles Dickens on Management vs. Labor
  8. Real vs. Artificial Christmas Trees: Comparing Environmental Effects
  9. Subsidized Employment: Two Randomized US Studies
  10. Interview with Lisa Cook: Invention Gaps, Anonymous Patents, and More
  11. Can the Earned Income Tax Credit (Mostly) Pay for Itself?
  12. Tragedy of the Commons: 50 Years Later
  13. Is Carbon Capture and Storage on the Verge?
  14. US Income Inequality Through the Prism of Different Studies
  15. Economic Effects of Islam
  16. The Diminution of Welfare as an Anti-Poverty Tool
  17. US Health and Healthcare Spending in the Last 25 Years: Gains and Costs
  18. US Not the Source of China\’s Growth, China Not the Source of America\’s Problems
  19. Excavating Layers of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

November 2018

  1. Unauthorized Immigrants to US Continues to Decline
  2. Snapshots of Falling US Mobility
  3. Some Alternative Baskets of Goods for Measuring Inflation
  4. Gender Wage Gaps Around the World
  5. Opening Some Windows Into Recent Economic Research
  6. Thanksgiving History: George Washington, Sarah Josepha Hale, Abraham Lincoln
  7. The Dominance of Peoria in the Processed Pumpkin Market
  8. An Economist Chews over Thanksgiving
  9. Four Follow-Ups: Scandinavia, Equal Opportunity, Brexit, Leveraged Lending
  10. Catastrophe Bonds: A Primer
  11. Economics of Mushroom Production: Kennett Square and the Rise of China
  12. Solow on Friedman\’s 1968 Presidential Address and the Medium Run
  13. Superstar Firms and Cities
  14. What Amazon Said, What Amazon Meant
  15. Some Economics of World War I
  16. Global Population Pyramids
  17. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, One Year Later
  18. Why Quantitative Easing Will Return
  19. Where Voting is Mandatory
  20. Clifford Geertz and Radical Objectivity
  21. Lobbying vs. Campaign Spending
  22. The Scandinavian Style of Capitalism
  23. Fall 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available On-line
  24. The Problem with Green Jelly Beans

October 2018

  1. Kinlessness
  2. Some Snapshots of Global and US Wealth
  3. Remembering Albert Hirschman\’s Tunnel Effect
  4. Rent Control Returns: Thoughts and Evidence
  5. How Much is the Fed Going to Raise Interest Rates?
  6. The Remarkable Fall in Global Poverty
  7. Global Alcohol Markets
  8. Insights Into the Dramatic Rise in Pre-Marriage Cohabitation
  9. Do Remittances Help Growth? A Lebanon Story
  10. Canada Legalizes Marijuana: What\’s Up in Colorado and Oregon?
  11. Why is Labor Force Participation Falling for Prime-Age Males?
  12. Primary Care: Expanding the Role of Nurse Practitioners
  13. How Best to Reintegrate Ex-Prisoners?
  14. Boglehead Wisdom
  15. Economics Nobel 2018: William Nordhaus and Paul Romer
  16. Nobel #2: Taking the Medal Through Fargo Airport Security
  17. Nobel #1: When Hayek Opposed the Nobel Prize in Economics
  18. Black/White Racial Inequality: A Place-Based Look
  19. Biggest US Export to China? Spending by Chinese Tourists
  20. Latin America Monetary and Fiscal History: One Country at a Time
  21. When Information Flows Became Fast: The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph
  22. The Outsized US Suspicions about Trade: International Comparisons

September 2018

  1. Some Notes on Corporations and Social Values
  2. Portability of Occupational Licenses?
  3. Rumination: Why Not a Military War on Trade?
  4. Corporate Debt and Leveraged Loans: Financial Snags Ahead?
  5. Interview with Chad Syverson: Issues in Productivity
  6. International Car Production and Ownership: Some Snapshots
  7. Update on US Health Insurance Coverage
  8. More $100s Than $1s
  9. Some Economics of Hurricanes
  10. A Meditation with George Orwell on Judging the Choices Made by the Poor
  11. Rebelling Against the Clean Plate Club
  12. China\’s Belt and Road Initiative: Grand or Grandiose?
  13. The Problematic Market for Snakebite Antivenoms
  14. What Causes Inequality to Erupt Into Riots? Revisiting the Kerner Commission
  15. How US Multinationals Shifting Income to Foreign Countries Reduces Measured GDP
  16. Regional Trade Agreements: A Popularity Nosedive
  17. The Origins of Labor Day
  18. Some Economics For Labor Day
  19. A Shorter Work Week?
  20. China and Korea Crash the Party in the Global Knowledge Economy

August 2018

  1. Air Conditioning: Problem, Solution, Problem, Solution (?)
  2. “I Don’t Know So Well What I Think Until I See What I Say”
  3. The Myth Behind the Origins of Summer Vacation
  4. US Multinationals Producing Elsewhere: In the Trade War Crossfire
  5. Some Pictures of Currency
  6. Identity Portability When a Firm Has Your Past Data
  7. A Bee Industry Update: Colony Collapse Disorder and Almond Pollination
  8. Victories Against Air Pollution
  9. Everything I Know About Walls
  10. Moral Licensing: When Doing Good Frees You to Do Bad
  11. Reskilling over a Lifetime
  12. Economics of Climate Change: Three Recent Takes
  13. Should Professors Share Returns from Innovation with their Employers?
  14. A Primer on the Jones Act and American Shipping
  15. What Should an Economics Research Article Look Like?
  16. Some Facts on Global Current Account Balances
  17. The Emergence and Erosion of the Retail Sales Tax
  18. Albert Jay Nock on the Three Rules of Editorial Policy
  19. Summer 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available On-line
  20. Mark Twain on Extrapolation: "Such Wholesale Returns of Conjecture Out of Such a Trifling Investment of Fact"

July 2018

  1. "Whoever Is Not a Liberal at 20 Has No Heart …"
  2. How Coalitional Instincts Make Weird Groups and Stupid People
  3. Difficulties of Making Predictions: Global Power Politics Edition
  4. The Need for Generalists
  5. "Half the Money I Spend on Advertising is Wasted, and the Trouble is I Don\’t Know Which Half"
  6. Early Examples of Randomization in the Social Sciences
  7. The Modern Shape-Up Labor Market
  8. The Chicken Paper Conundrum
  9. Early Childhood Education Fails Another Randomized Trial
  10. Conflict Minerals and Unexpected Tradeoffs
  11. On Preferring A to B, While Also Preferring B to A
  12. Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Global and US
  13. Time to Reform Unemployment Insurance
  14. China Stops Importing Waste Plastic
  15. When Growth of US Education Attainment Went Flat
  16. Three Questions for the Antitrust Moment
  17. Skeptical about Cryptocurrencies
  18. Was the American Revolution Good for Liberty?
  19. Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, Chocolate Fondue
  20. "The Seeds of the Declaration of Independence Are Yet Maturing"
  21. Edmund Burke: Six Reasons Why Americans Love Liberty
  22. Black-White Income and Wealth Gaps

June 2018

  1. The Problem of College Completion Rates
  2. US Homeownership Patterns
  3. Interview with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde: Macro Topics
  4. The Medical Bankruptcies Debate
  5. Happiness Around the World–And For Migrants
  6. The Dramatic Expansion of Corporate Bonds
  7. Interview with Marianne Bertrand: Inequality, Gender Norms, Skills
  8. Thaler on the Evolution of Behavioral Economics
  9. Autonomous Vehicles: Here\’s One Crystal Ball
  10. G-7, G7+, G20
  11. Bangladesh Reaches Middle Income Status
  12. Blood Plasma: US Paid Donors Dominate Global Market
  13. US Intergenerational Mobility: An International Perspective
  14. What\’s the Value of a QALY?
  15. "What Money Can\’t Buy:" A Michael Sandel Video Series
  16. Snapshots of the Salubrious US Labor Market
  17. The Shifting Connections from Education to Job Skills
  18. The Not-So-Triumphant Return of the Marshmallow Test
  19. Sweden Heads Toward a Cash-Free Economy

May 2018

  1. Two Issues for an Aging Japan: Financial Gerontology and the Rise of Robots
  2. Spending Per Student and Per Capita GDP: International Snapshots
  3. Germany\’s Prosperity: How Stable are the Foundations?
  4. Sample Some Debates at the Soho Forum
  5. If We Pay Football Players, Why Not Kidney Donors?
  6. Why is Inflation Stuck so Low?
  7. Share of US Adults Without Health Insurance
  8. China Now Has a Trade Deficit
  9. The Rising Number of US Teachers Leaving for Other Fields
  10. Both Sides of the Vaping Controversy
  11. Interview Bonanza: Dow, Harcourt, Goodhart, Lawson, Nelson, Chang
  12. More From Your Horseshoe Crab Blood Economics Leader
  13. Some Economic Effects of US Import Restraints
  14. Welfare Reform: Legacy and Next Steps
  15. Index Funds vs. Hedge Funds: Buffett\’s Bet, 10 Years Later
  16. Marx on Economics: "Its True Ideal is the Ascetic but Rapacious Skinflint and the Ascetic but Productive Slave"
  17. Spring 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives is Online
  18. The Stockholm Congestion Charge

April 2018

  1. The Job Guarantee Controversy
  2. Economics: Reviled Because It Matters
  3. Venting about the Helium Market
  4. Inequality in US Life Expectancy
  5. The Challenges of Measuring Discrimination Against LGBTI Individuals
  6. Most Global Violent Deaths are Murder, Not War
  7. The Clean Cooking Problem: 2.3 Million Deaths Annually
  8. A Classic Question: Does Government Empower or Stifle?
  9. Global Debt Hits All-Time High
  10. Some Economics for Tax Filing Day
  11. The Share of Itemizers and the Politics of Tax Reform
  12. When Britain Repealed Its Income Tax in 1816
  13. The Global Rise of Internet Access and Digital Government
  14. State and Local Spending on Higher Education
  15. US Mergers and Antitrust in 2017
  16. Should the 5% Convention for Statistical Significance be Dramatically Lower?
  17. US Lagging in Labor Force Participation
  18. Misconceptions about Milton Friedman\’s 1968 Presidential Address
  19. China Worries: Echoes of Japan, and the Soviet Union
  20. Wakanda and Economics
  21. Economics of Tourism: The Future of Direct Contact with Other Countries

March 2018

  1. Misconceptions about Trade Deficits
  2. The Commuter Parking Tax Break
  3. Equal Pay for Equal Work: Rathbone and Fawcett in 1918
  4. Contingent Valuation and the Deepwater Horizon Spill
  5. Opioids: Brought to You by the Medical Care Industry
  6. The Distribution and Redistribution of US Income
  7. What if Country Bonds Were Linked to GDP Growth?
  8. An NCAA Financial Digression During March Madness
  9. The Skeptical View in Favor of an Antitrust Push
  10. Interview with Jean Tirole: Competition and Regulation
  11. The Distressingly Weak Lessons of Research on Gun Control
  12. About those Tariff Exemptions for Canada and Mexico …
  13. Some Economics of Place-Based Policies
  14. The National Security Argument for Steel and Aluminum Tariffs
  15. Rebalancing the Economy Toward Workers and Wages
  16. Bernanke Interviews Yellen: Fed Chair as Interior Design Consultant, When Mozilo Switched Regulators, Deficit-Cutting Stimulus, and More
  17. Time to Rein in Government Borrowing: The Case for a Spending-First Approach

February 2018

  1. Two Central Bankers Walk Into a Restaurant, and the Pawnbroker for All Seasons
  2. Black/White Disparities: 50 Years After the Kerner Commission
  3. Some Thoughts About Economic Exposition in Math and Words
  4. A Grasshopper View: The 2018 Economic Report of the President
  5. Brainstorming Anti-Poverty Programs
  6. Pollutant Taxes on Energy: Why So Focused on Roads?
  7. Some Patterns for Same-Sex Households
  8. "The Great Advantage of the Americans Consists in Their Being Able to Commit Faults Which They may Afterward Repair"
  9. Homeownership Rates: Some International Comparisons
  10. Rising Interest Rates, but Easier Financial Conditions
  11. Nudge Policies
  12. Network Effects, Big Data, and Antitrust Issues For Big Tech
  13. Four Examples from the Automation Frontier
  14. Olympic Economics
  15. What Charter Schools Can Teach the Rest of K-12 Education
  16. US History and the Path to European Integration
  17. Behind the Declining Labor Share of Income
  18. Could Driverless Trucks Create More Trucking Jobs? Uber Says "Maybe"
  19. Kill the Zombie Firms
  20. Is the Euro Out of Danger?

January 2018

  1. Winter 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives
  2. The Rising Importance of Soft Skills
  3. Why Has US Regional Convergence Declined?
  4. A Puzzle: Why Do Retail Chains Charge Uniform Prices Across Stores?
  5. What\’s Wrong with Macro? A Symposium from the Oxford Review of Economic Policy
  6. Bitcoin and Illegal Activity
  7. Textiles: Your Clothes are Pollutants
  8. Attributing Economic Outcomes to Presidents: Year One of Trump
  9. The Global Output Gap Has Closed: What Next?
  10. Snapshots of Economic Inequality Around the World
  11. Some Economics for Martin Luther King Day
  12. The Problem of Questionable Patents
  13. Does Retirement Raise the Risk of Death?
  14. Measuring the "Free" Digital Economy
  15. The State of Play with Carbon Capture and Storage
  16. No, a Seller Doesn\’t Have to Accept Cash
  17. When Invoking Poverty and Necessity is a Ruse
  18. NIcholas Stern Interviews Tony Atkinson: Poverty, Inequality, and the Economics Profession
  19. Gender Mix in AP Economics
  20. “If You’re Not Paying for It, You’re the Product”
  21. Adam Smith on the Conversable Spirit
  22. What Economists Need from their Readers: Goodwill, Intelligence Co-operation

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December 2017

  1. Life Advice from Cecilia Rouse
  2. The Role of Academia in Tumultuous Times
  3. "Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable"
  4. Charles Dickens on Management vs. Labor
  5. Charles Dickens on Seeing the Poor
  6. Enviromental Costs of Christmas Trees: Real vs. Artificial
  7. India: Headed Toward Most Populous Country
  8. Interview with Anne Case: Mortality, Funerals, and More
  9. US Dollar: Many Roles in the Global Economy
  10. Thoughts on Single Payer Health Care
  11. Interview with Douglas Irwin: Lessons from History about US Trade
  12. Migration from a Global Perspective
  13. Occupational Licensing Under Fire
  14. Ricardo\’s Comparative Advantage After Two Centuries
  15. Adding Monetary Costs of Lost Lives to the Opioid Crisis
  16. Snapshots of the US Housing Market: Ten Years Later
  17. Do You Rejoice for China?
  18. Natural Fisheries Overtaken by Aquaculture
  19. Why More Americans Seem Stuck in Place
  20. What Financial Risks are Lurking
  21. Federal Income Taxes at the Highest Income Levels
  22. Tax Reform With Spending and Taxes at Historical Averages
  23. Is Job Disruption Historically Low in the US Economy?

November 2017

  1. The Family Options Experiment: Reducing Homelessness with Long-Term Rent Subsidies
  2. What\’s Next for Mass Transit?
  3. Asset Prices and the Real Economy
  4. Progressive Redistribution: What\’s Happened? What\’s Next?
  5. The Amazon Effect
  6. The Origins of Thanksgiving as an Official Holiday
  7. An Economist Chews over Thanksgiving
  8. The Dominance of Peoria in the Processed Pumpkin Market
  9. Will Artificial Intelligence Recharge Economic Growth?
  10. Why Has Life Insurance Ownership Declined?
  11. Brexit: Still a Process, Not Yet a Destination
  12. US Wages: The Short-Term Mystery Resolved
  13. Rethinking Development: Larry Summers
  14. Regional Price Parities: Comparing Cost of Living Across Cities and States
  15. Choice and Health Insurance Coverage
  16. Decline in US Mail Leveling Out
  17. The Darker Side of Peer-to-Peer Lending
  18. The Macroeconomy in Ongoing Transition: Mervyn King
  19. A Range of International Poverty Lines
  20. Trade, Technology, and Job Disruption
  21. How Food Banks Use Markets
  22. Boston, the 2024 Olympics, and the Power of Economics
  23. Fall 2017 Journal of Economic Perspectives On-line

October 2017

  1. Parsing Trump\’s Deregulation Plans
  2. Some Watery Economics
  3. Almost 10 Billion Hours of Government-Imposed Paperwork
  4. How to Increase Women\’s Labor Force Participation
  5. Mysteries of Modern Inflation
  6. The Immediate Global Costs of Pollution
  7. After Incarceration: How Many and Male Labor Force Participation
  8. Cicero: On Grazing, Money-Lending, and Murder
  9. Teacher Absenteeism in the U.S.
  10. Housing Markets: A European Perspective
  11. Online Dating and Interracial Marriage
  12. Learning, Not Just Schooling: World Development Report 2018
  13. Independent Workers and Policy: Krueger\’s Moynihan Lecture
  14. The Lost US Lead in Education
  15. Snapshots of the Global Robotics Industry
  16. Formal Jobs and Decent Work
  17. Richard Thaler: The 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics
  18. Interview with Ricardo Hausmann: Venezuela\’s Economy
  19. Foreign Direct Investment in the US: Size and Effects
  20. The Gherkin Story: For Explaining Exchange Rate Risk
  21. Some Economics of Immigration
  22. Chronic Conditions and Health Care Costs

September 2017

  1. Interview with Lawrence Katz: Inequality, Mobility, and More
  2. Wealth Patterns in the United States
  3. Demography Rebalances Asia
  4. Child Labor in Decline
  5. Imperfect Information: Is It For or Against Free Markets?
  6. Antitrust in the 1520s: Diet of Nuremberg, Martin Luther, and the City of Augsberg
  7. Should the Federal Reserve Buy Corporate Bonds?
  8. Federal Subsidies for Health Insurance
  9. Health Insurance Coverage in the US
  10. "Rationality is an Assumption I Make About Other People"
  11. Interview with Jesse Shapiro: Media and Political Bias
  12. Netherlands: The #2 Food Exporter in the World
  13. Middle East Economic Challenges (as the Role of Fossil Fuels Declines)
  14. The Limited Exposure of the US Economy to Trade
  15. Breaking Down the Black-White Wage Gap
  16. Some Economics for Labor Day
  17. Adam Smith on the Benefits of Public Education

August 2017

  1. What Students Owe Teachers: Trust, Docility, Effort, Thinking
  2. How the Jargonauts Keep Normies in their Place
  3. The Timidity and Buzzard Mentality of Professors
  4. What Structure Are Academic Researchers Building?
  5. The Smile Curve: The Distribution of Benefits from Global Value Chains
  6. Will the China Shock Operate in Reverse?
  7. Foreign Aid to Haiti: Benefit/Cost Options
  8. The Next Inflection Point for Aging and Social Security
  9. Blockchain: New Frontiers
  10. Autonomous Cars: Altering One in Nine Jobs
  11. Adam Smith: The Plight of the Impartial Spectator in Times of Faction
  12. Misallocation and Productivity: International Perspective
  13. NAFTA in a Multipolar World Economy
  14. The US Fiscal Outlook
  15. William Playfair: Inventor of the Bar Graph, Line Graph, and Pie Chart
  16. Negative Interest Rates: Evidence and Practicalities
  17. Fighting Colony Collapse Disorder: How Beekeepers Make More Bees
  18. US Public Firm Agonistes
  19. Digitization of Media Industries: Quantity and Quality
  20. Kindleberger on International Use of the US Dollar and the English Language

July 2017

  1. Dissecting Long-Run International Productivity Patterns
  2. Price Dispersement and Bargain Hunting
  3. "The Limited Liability Corporation is the Greatest Single Discovery of Modern Times"
  4. Summer 2017 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  5. Housing Prices: Highs and Lows
  6. Facts about Carbon Emissions from Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal
  7. Food for Thought on Jobs: Tidbits from Solow, Gershon, Mokyr
  8. The Cycles of Cities
  9. Global Value Chains and Productivity
  10. The Pricing Answer to Traffic Congestion
  11. Apprenticeships for Early Childhood Education?
  12. The Ingredients for a US Productivity Revival
  13. Tally Sticks and the Fundamentals of Money
  14. Arm\’s-Length International Trade
  15. The Five Grandchildren Query
  16. Economic Theory: Limitations and Biases
  17. Notes on "Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty"
  18. Why Not Taxation and Representation?
  19. Carlton Hayes: Nationalism as a Religion
  20. George Orwell: Patriotism vs. Nationalism
  21. Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, Chocolate Fondue

June 2017

  1. From What Direction is the Next Recession Coming?
  2. Over $200,000 in Income: What Income Taxes Paid?
  3. Higher Local Minimum Wages: Updating Results from Seattle
  4. The Challenge of Electrifying Africa
  5. Alan Blinder: Lamppost Theory and Dysfunctional Politics
  6. Tobacco Taxes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
  7. The Story of Robert Keayne, Protocapitalist
  8. Unions in Decline: Some International Comparisons
  9. An Update on Foreign Direct Investment
  10. Competition Issues in Seed and Agricultural Chemicals
  11. Interview with Janet Currie: Health, Liability, Overtreatment
  12. Facing the Costs of Paid Parental Leave
  13. Interview with Timothy Taylor: Quick Hits
  14. Environmental Protection and Africa\’s Cities
  15. Corporate Benefits from White House Visits: A Tidbit of Evidence
  16. When Trotsky (Temporarily) Embraced Prices and Markets
  17. The Slow-Motion Crisis in Government Pensions
  18. What is Killing US Coal?
  19. Interview with Hilary Hoynes: Anti-Poverty Programs
  20. How America Could Save $65 Billion in Mobile Phone Bills

May 2017

  1. The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning
  2. Information Technology and the US Workforce
  3. "A Contemptible Democratical Oligarchy of Glib Economists:" Samuel Coleridge
  4. "The Most Unfeeling Thing I Know of is the Law of Gravitation:" Mill on Selfishness
  5. Later School Starts for High School?
  6. Algorithmic Pricing and Competition: The Small-Town Gas Station Example
  7. The State of Global Financial Integration
  8. Meat Substitutes:Soy, Mealworms, and Crickets
  9. Rising Job Tenure and Its Tradeoffs
  10. Pass-Through Corporations (Which Don\’t Pay Corporate Income Tax)
  11. Associational Life in America
  12. The Market for US Prescription Drugs
  13. State and Local Government Business Incentives: Data Tells a Story
  14. The Economics of the \’Stans
  15. More Fish Through Less Fishing
  16. Phelps on Dynamism vs. Corporatism
  17. Economic Prospects for the West Bank and Gaza
  18. Regulating Wall Street: What Needs to Happen Next?
  19. Carl F. Christ, 1923-2017
  20. Spring 2017 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available On-line
  21. Adam Smith on Beggar Thy Neighbor
  22. Furman Reflects on Eight Years of Economic Policy-Making
  23. Snapshots of Merger and Acquisition Activity

April 2017

  1. "But When, Friend, Dost Thee Think?"
  2. Digital Forces and the Other 70% of the US Economy
  3. Demand and the Frac Sand Example
  4. The Global Systemically Important Banks: An Update
  5. When Restrictions on House-Building Meet Growing Demand: Interview with Joseph Gyourko
  6. Seeking Consensus on Effects of Pre-Kindergarten Programs
  7. Don\’t Fear the (McCormick) Reaper
  8. Personnel is Policy: Presidential Appointments
  9. Characteristics of US Minimum Wage Workers
  10. The Economics of Horseshoe Crab Blood
  11. Julian Simon\’s "Almost Practical Solution to Airline Overbooking"
  12. A Truckload of Tips for Teaching Economics
  13. US Polling on Attitudes Toward Trade
  14. Addressing Dislocation Costs of Trade: IMF, WTO, WB Weigh In
  15. US Health Care Costs: Same Items, Compared with Other Countries
  16. Interview with Angus Deaton on Death Rates, Inequality, and More
  17. Six Patterns Behind the US Productivity Slowdown
  18. Leniency in Speeding Tickets: Bunching Evidence of Police Bias
  19. A Stroll through US Trade Statistics, and How It Always Balances

March 2017

  1. How Between-Firm Inequality Drives Economic and Social Inequality
  2. “In Order That They Might Rest Their Arguments on Facts”
  3. Global Investment Spending: A Piece of the Puzzle
  4. Interview with Ricardo Reis: Macro and Reservism
  5. Spring 2017 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
  6. Global Productivity Growth: Diminishing Convergence
  7. Interview with Jonathan A. Parker
  8. India: What\’s Needed for Sustained Growth?
  9. Available: My Principles Text, Fourth Edition
  10. What\’s the Value of US Household Production?
  11. American Leisure: TV and a Bit of Socializing
  12. Africa\’s Cities: The Low Development Trap
  13. The Rise and Fall of Personal Interest Income
  14. US Health Care: The Case For Going Upstream
  15. Pigouvian Taxes and Bounties
  16. Differing Productivity Across US Industries
  17. Benjamin Franklin on the Origins of Daylight Savings Time
  18. Secular Stagnation vs. Financial Cycle Drag
  19. International Corporate Tax Rates: Some Comparisons
  20. Those Rising German Trade Surpluses
  21. Global Kidney Exchange
  22. Sagging Productivity in Construction
  23. Some Economics of Parental Leave
  24. The Decline in US Public Companies

February 2017

  1. Vulnerable Jobs and the Desire to Migrate
  2. The Declining US Labor Share, Explicated
  3. The Economics of Kidnap Insurance
  4. Wasteful Health Care Spending
  5. Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
  6. Why All Exchange Rates Are Bad
  7. Declining US Investment, Gross and Net
  8. The Economic Vision for Precocious, Cleavaged India
  9. Update on the Social Cost of Carbon
  10. China: The Economic Story of Our Time
  11. The Middle Income Trap and Governance Issues
  12. Firms Take the Lead in Global Saving
  13. R&D Investment: An International Snapshot
  14. When Authors Forget What their Own Abbreviations Stand For
  15. China\’s Wind Power: Some Cautionary Facts
  16. How Close is the EU to a Single Market in Goods?
  17. Information Technology: Installation Phase to Deployment Phase

January 2017

  1. Border Adjustments, Tariffs, VAT, and the Corporate Income Tax
  2. Winter 2017 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  3. How Did the Misery Index Become Irrelevant?
  4. Changes in Enrollment and Costs: Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act
  5. The Rise in Global Per Capita GDP
  6. Trade: Engine or Handmaiden of Growth?
  7. What if Trump Skeptics, Like Me, Turn Out To Be Wrong?
  8. The Evolution of Medicaid and Health Financing Reform
  9. Some Economics for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  10. Want to Watch Some Economists Talk?
  11. A New Era of Price Discrimination?
  12. Narrative Economics and the Laffer Curve
  13. Bias Against Those From Less Wealthy Families: The Example of Mutual Fund Managers
  14. What If US Importers and Exporters are Largely the Same?
  15. Engels Rebuts Malthus
  16. Honest Abe Warns about Accuracy: Bulletin Board Material

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December 2016

  1. Improving How Job Markets Function: Active Labor Market Policies
  2. The Diocletian Edict: Price-Fixing in History
  3. Interview with Gita Gopinath: The Dollar and Effects of Exchange Rate Fluctuations
  4. Price Controls in the Colonial United States: "A Sharping Set of Mushroom Pedlers"
  5. Charles Dickens on Management vs. Labor
  6. Charles Dickens on Seeing the Poor
  7. Enviromental Costs of Christmas Trees: Real vs. Artificial
  8. Ventilating Some US Labor Market Controversies
  9. An Appetizer Buffet of Economic Research Highlights
  10. Americans are Moving Less
  11. Thomas Schelling and the Agent-Based Discrimination Checkerboard
  12. FX Market Volume Falls–To a Mere $5.1 Trillion Per Day
  13. The Post Office Board of Governors is Down to Zero Appointed Members
  14. Interview with Josh Lerner: Venture Capital and Private Equity
  15. Women in the US Labor Market
  16. Economics of Gentrification
  17. Youth and the Economic Future of Arab States

November 2016

  1. Improvements in US Air Pollution
  2. The Plague of Long-Term Unemployment in Europe
  3. An Economist Chews Over Thanksgiving
  4. Origins of the Thankgiving Holiday: George Washington, Sarah J. Hale, Abraham Lincoln
  5. Paying Bone Marrow Donors
  6. More on the Rise of "Alternative" Work Arrangements
  7. Janet Yellen Doesn’t Know What Determines Inflation
  8. A Skeptical Look at the Rigor of Antitrust Enforcement
  9. Nonstandard Employment Around the World
  10. Active Labor Market Policies: Time for Aggressive Experimentation
  11. Alexander Hamilton on Infant Industries
  12. Economics and Satellite Data
  13. The Differences Between Selective and Nonselective in Higher Education
  14. Fodder to Chew Over for US Election Day
  15. US Sentiments on Protectionism: A Breakdown
  16. Early Childhood Education: Promises and Practicalities
  17. Adam Smith\’s Watch-Making Example: Technological Progress Before the Industrial Revolution
  18. Should Museums Own Copyright on Photographs of Their Paintings?
  19. Is the Mediterranean the New Rio Grande?

October 2016

  1. Snapshots of US Competitiveness: From Harvard Business School
  2. Fall 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  3. The Coleman Report on Equal Educational Opportunity: 50 Years Later
  4. Is Foreign Direct Investment Mostly Portfolio Flows in Disguise?
  5. Some Snapshots of Incarceration and Prisoner Reentry
  6. Photos of Fisher\’s Physical Macroeconomic Model
  7. What Else Can Central Banks Do?
  8. Will the US Become a Nation of Renters?
  9. Arnold Harberger: Is Growth Yeast or Mushrooms?
  10. How Do the French Do it?
  11. Global Debt Hits All-Time High
  12. How Clones Can Experience Unequal Economic Outcomes
  13. A Coffee Store Not Aimed At Economists: Bulletin Board Material
  14. The Economics of Noncognitive Skills
  15. Snapshots of Global Poverty and Inequality
  16. Interview with David Autor: Trade, Technology, Job Markets
  17. Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström: The 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics
  18. Hayek: For Humility and Against a Nobel Prize in Economics
  19. Sorting Out the Patent Trolls
  20. What Do We Know About Angel Investors?
  21. Rising Out-of-Pocket Health Care Costs
  22. Snapshots of the US Housing Market
  23. China Flexes Toward Consumption?

September 2016

  1. Small and Medium Companies in World Trade
  2. Shadow Banking Bounces Back
  3. Sketching State Laws on Administration of Elections
  4. When Antitrust Runs Amok: Bulletin Board Material
  5. Economics of Immigration: The NAS Report
  6. Tax Code Carrots and Sticks for Health Insurance: An Update
  7. Audit Studies and Housing Discrimination
  8. Declining Competition in US Markets?
  9. How Ban the Box Reduces Job Opportunities for African-Americans
  10. How Poverty Limits Bandwidth
  11. Kindergarten Readiness Gap
  12. Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
  13. China\’s Insufficient Investment in Education
  14. Interview with Erik Hurst
  15. Union Density and Collective Bargaining Coverage: International Comparisons
  16. Some Economics for Labor Day
  17. Max Weber on Inconvenient Facts
  18. Harry Berger on Multiple Interpretations

August 2016

  1. Roxanne Gay on Safe Spaces and Trigger Warnings
  2. Montaigne on Students Who Do Not Understand Themselves Yet
  3. Adam Smith on Teaching and Incentives
  4. Snapshots of US Family Wealth
  5. Fed Policy: Negative Rates, Neo-Fisherian, or No Change
  6. The Allure of Catastrophe Bonds
  7. How Much Slack is Left in US Labor Markets?
  8. Automation and Job Loss: Leontief in 1982
  9. Convert Carbon Dioxide from the Air to Methanol?
  10. Patterns in US Information Techology Jobs
  11. What are Motivated Beliefs?
  12. Alfred Marshall and the Origin of Ceteris Paribus
  13. The Future of DSGE Models in Macroeconomics
  14. US Motor Vehicle Deaths:
  15. Is Support for Democracy Eroding?
  16. Higher Local Minimum Wages: Early Results from Seattle
  17. Are Victims of War and Violence More Likely to Become Social Cooperators?
  18. The Global Tourism Industry
  19. Summer 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  20. Brexit: Getting Concrete about Next Steps
  21. What is Inclusive Growth?

July 2016

  1. E.g., Abandon i.e. and Other Latinisms, etc.
  2. Public Pensions on Shaky Ground
  3. Adam Smith on Human Capacity for Self-Deceit
  4. International Trade as a Scapegoat
  5. High-Skilled Immigration
  6. An Update on Costs of End-of-Life Care
  7. Public Higher Ed: State Support Down, Tuition Up
  8. How Well Does GDP Measure the Digital Economy?
  9. The Collapse of California\’s Carbon Cap-and-Trade Market
  10. US Financial Literacy: Distressing and Disempowering
  11. What\’s Driving the Long-Run Deficit Forecasts?
  12. Financial Stability Reform: Lots of Activity, Not Enough Progress
  13. When Technology Alters Jobs, but Doesn\’t Replace Them
  14. Carbon Capture and Storage: No Stone Unturned
  15. Chronic Student Absenteeism
  16. Update on the Income Share of the 1%
  17. World Drug Report 2016
  18. Trying to Envision the Original United States
  19. The Transition to Transfer Payment Government

June 2016

  1. Corporate Boards: Stop Expecting the Impossible?
  2. Alfred Marshall: Not Competition, But Deliberateness and Freedom
  3. Can the US Continue to be an Outlier in Long Term Care?
  4. Seven Reflections on Brexit
  5. China\’s Share of Global Economic Growth
  6. Global Overpopulation Circa 200 AD
  7. John Stuart Mill on Partial Truth and Many-sidedness
  8. Ticket-Splitting in US Elections
  9. How Many Jobs in the Political Organizations Industry?
  10. The Origins of the Producer Price Index
  11. The US Trade Surplus in Services
  12. Still Living in a Fossil Fuel World
  13. Harrod and Keynes on the Scope and Method of Economics
  14. Accessing the Financial System
  15. Some Economics of Stop and Frisk
  16. The Big Question: Has Robust Growth Deserted Us?
  17. When Finance Becomes Self-Referential
  18. Update on Remittances
  19. The Collective Action Problem of Resistance to Antibiotics

May 2016

  1. The Economies of Africa: Will Bust Follow Boom?
  2. Allocation of Scarce Elevators
  3. US Corporate Stock: The Transition in Who Owns It
  4. Lessons for the Euro from Early American History
  5. Interview with Matthew Gentzkow: Media, Brands, Persuasion
  6. The Tradeoffs of Parking Spots
  7. Telemedicine
  8. Rising Tuition Discount Rates at Private Colleges
  9. Inequalities of Crime Victimization and Criminal Justice
  10. Ray Fair: The Economy is Tilting Republican
  11. What Was Different About Housing This Time?
  12. Mayfly Years: Thoughts on a Five-Year Blogging Anniversary
  13. Tradeoffs of Cultured Meat Production
  14. The US Weighted by GDP and Residential Property Values
  15. Economics of Hosting the Olympics
  16. Committee Behavior and the Federal Reserve
  17. New Angles on Inequality in Life Expectancy
  18. The Rise in Polarization: Both Real and Exaggerated?
  19. All You Need to Know about Disability Insurance
  20. Spring 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  21. Correlation v. Causation: Bulletin Board Material
  22. Falling Job Tenure
  23. US Health Care in International Context
  24. Khrushchev: Economics Does Not Greatly Respect One’s Wishes

April 2016

  1. US Suicide Rates Rising
  2. Crime and Incarceration: Correlation, Causation, and Policy
  3. Hyperinflation and the Venezuela Example
  4. Who\’s the Threat? Big Business, Big Labor, Big Government?
  5. What Do We Know about Subsidized Employment Programs?
  6. The Spartan Doctrine of Laissez Faire vs. the Roman Doctrine of External Remedy
  7. Foreigners Buy US Debt, US Investors Buy Foreign Equity
  8. Mexico to the US: Border Apprehensions and Immigration Fall
  9. The Economics of Noncompete Contracts
  10. Some Economics for Tax Filing Day
  11. Putting Drug Policy Tradeoffs on the Table
  12. The Relationship Between Household Worth and Personal Saving
  13. Saving Global Fisheries With Property Rights
  14. All the Job Growth is in "Alternative" Jobs
  15. Global Capital Flows: Why No Crisis (So Far) This Time?
  16. The EU Carbon Trading Market: A Decade of Experience
  17. What is a "Good Job?"
  18. The Exam Time/Dead Grandmother Syndrome
  19. Context on Corporate Profits

March 2016

  1. The Economics of Daylight Savings Time
  2. Grade Inflation Update: A\’s Rule
  3. The Economics of Pandemic Preparedness
  4. Affordable Care Act: Costs of Expanding Coverage
  5. Stock Options: A Theory of Compensation and Income Inequality at the Top
  6. Dissecting the Concept of Opportunity Cost
  7. Why Economist are Unwelcome in Hell: Bulletin Board Material
  8. Is the Essence of Globalization Shifting?
  9. The Next Big M&A Boom is Here
  10. Eliminate High-Denomination Bills?
  11. Dynamic Pricing: Uber, Coca Cola, Disneyland and Elsewhere
  12. Automation and Job Loss: The Fears of 1927
  13. Remembering Lloyd Shapley: Surprised to Find Himself Speaking Economics
  14. A Fundamental Shift in the Nature of Trade Agreements
  15. Insights on Infrastructure
  16. A Cross-National View of Health Care Systems: Thoughts on Canada, the UK, and Germany
  17. For Women, Higher Labor Force Participation Means More Babies
  18. Interview with Emi Nakamura: Price Stickiness and Shocks
  19. Global Demography: Tectonic Shifts
  20. State and Local Pensions: A Golden Opportunity Missed
  21. Why Do Oil Prices Keep Astonishing Us?
  22. Know Your Branches of Economics: Bulletin Board Material

February 2016

  1. 70 Years of the Council of Economic Advisers
  2. Facts About Billionaires
  3. Will the Causes of Falling Real Interest Rates Unwind?
  4. The World Bank: A Leverage Problem
  5. Demography is Destiny: Global Economy Edition
  6. US Social Indicators Since 1960
  7. The Problems with Prizes as Innovation Policy
  8. Power Laws: Raise Those Eyebrows
  9. The Fed Semiannual Update: An Interest Rate Gap and the Balance Sheet
  10. How Many in the Gig Economy?
  11. Do Business Cycles Die of Old Age?
  12. Will Peak Oil or Renewables Make Climate Change Moot?
  13. Twenty Years Since the Welfare Reform of 1996
  14. Breaking Down US Inflation Rates by Category
  15. A Peek at Russia\’s Economy
  16. The Life of US Workers 100 Years Ago
  17. Keynes on "Ruthless Truth-Telling"–and the IMF Connection
  18. Winter 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online
  19. Interview with Timothy Taylor: Thoughts on Business and Government
  20. Interview with Richard Thaler: More on Behavioral Economics
  21. Economics of Free Parking

January 2016

  1. Budget Deficits and Federal Debt from CBO
  2. Financial Risks: Views from the Office of Financial Research
  3. Against Multiple Regression–And Experiments Have Issues, Too
  4. Environment vs. Economy: A Shift in American Opinion
  5. Two Speeches on Behavioral Economics
  6. Unemployment is Bottoming Out, So What\’s Next?
  7. Philanthropy, American Style
  8. Snapshots and Visualizations of the Global Economy
  9. Digital Dividends and Development
  10. Some Economics for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  11. Franchise the National Parks?
  12. War on Cancer: Redux
  13. Why Do People Say They Aren\’t In the Labor Force?
  14. Marriage: Homogamy or Heterogamy
  15. Multipolarity: The Next Step After Globalization?
  16. Bernanke on the Fed, the US Dollar, and the Global Economy
  17. Back to Basics: What Drives US Economic Growth?
  18. What is Getting Too Little Attention from Financial Regulators?
  19. Interview with James Poterba: Retirement Finance and Tax Policy
  20. Variability in Health Care Prices and Malfunctioning Markets
  21. A Commonplace Blog: Annual Report for 2015

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December 2015

  1. What are Inventories Telling Us?
  2. Response to Krugman: More on Secular Stagnation
  3. Eisenhower on the Opportunity Cost of War
  4. Secular Stagnation: An Update
  5. Christmas Trees: Real vs. Artificial
  6. Charles Dickens on Seeing the Poor
  7. Charles Dickens on Management vs. Labor
  8. The Firm as a Time Lord
  9. Lithium for Car Batteries: A Demand Shock Example
  10. How MTV\’s "16 and Pregnant" Reduced Teen Pregnancy
  11. Does Marriage Help Children?
  12. Saving Social Security: A Policy Menu
  13. World GDP is Falling–If Measured at Market Exchange Rates
  14. New Rules for Workers in the Gig Economy?
  15. Globalization Pauses: Will It Resume?
  16. Homelessness in America: A Slow Decline
  17. Fed Interest Rate Increases: Not When, But How
  18. What if Government Paid Kidney Donors?
  19. Cap and Trade: Lessons of Experience

November 2015

  1. Douglass North and Institutions
  2. Capitalism for Growth, Goverment for Fairness
  3. Thankgiving Tidbits: George Washington, Sarah J. Hale, Abraham Lincoln
  4. An Economist Chews Over Thanksgiving
  5. Will Convergence Occur?
  6. The Economics of the Retail Sector
  7. The Size of Automatic Stabilizers in the US Budget
  8. Refugees, Displaced, Resettled: Some Global Snapshots
  9. Remembering Herbert Scarf: 1930-2015
  10. Why More Humanitarian Aid Should be Given in Cash
  11. Uber: What are the Real Economic Gains?
  12. How Many Deaths from Mistakes in US Health Care?
  13. Calibrating the Hype about Online Higher Education
  14. Overconfidence: The Ancient Evil
  15. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Fall 2015 issue, Available Online
  16. The Window Tax: A Tale of Excess Burden
  17. Land Use: Regulations vs. Negotiations
  18. Snapshots of Well-Being Across High-Income Countries

October 2015

  1. Update on the National School Lunch Program
  2. The Trade Facilitation Agenda
  3. How Tight is the US Labor Market?
  4. How Raising the Top Tax Rate Won\’t Much Alter Inequality
  5. Greater Inequality of Returns Across US Firms
  6. The Shifting World Distribution of Income
  7. When High GDP No Longer Means High Per Capita GDP
  8. Exonerating Henry Ellsworth and Charles Duell, Former U.S. Commissioners of Patents
  9. When Global Demand Shifts: Cars and Movies
  10. Thoughts on Shovel-Ready Infrastructure
  11. The 2015 Nobel Prize: Angus Deaton
  12. Unpaid Care Work, Women, and GDP
  13. The Eurozone Crisis: Crystalizing the Narrative
  14. Update on US Unions
  15. Rethinking Parameters of the US Welfare State
  16. Mass Shootings: Trends and Categories
  17. An Interview with Amy Finkelstein: Health Insurance, Adverse Selection, and More
  18. Causes of Wealth Inequality: Dynastic, Valuation, or Income?

September 2015

  1. Exchange Rates Moving
  2. Computer Use and Learning: Some Discomfiting International Experience
  3. Trends in Employer-Provided Health Insurance
  4. Wage Inequality Across US Metropolitan Areas
  5. A Growing Gap in Life Expectancy by Income
  6. The Female/Male Wage Gap
  7. Ultra-low Interest Rates: Dangerous or Just a Price?
  8. Empathy for the Poor: A Meditation with Charles Dickens
  9. Remembering 2008: It Could Have Been Another Depression
  10. Costs of Regulation: Higher Education Edition
  11. Dementia Care: A Shift to Paid Support?
  12. Snapshots of Foreign Direct Investment Flows
  13. Origins of Labor Day
  14. The Economies of Latin America: Fade or Pause?
  15. Campbell Harvey: Interview on Topics in Finance
  16. Crossing the Ravine from Economic Theory to Policy Advice

August 2015

  1. Global Value Chains and Rethinking Production and Trade
  2. Falling Labor Share: Measurement Issues and Candidate Explanations
  3. States as the Laboratories of Democracy: An Historical Note
  4. John Kenneth Galbraith on Writing, Inspiration, and Simplicity
  5. The Human Breast Milk Market
  6. Snapshots of Connected and Interactive in 2015
  7. Shifting Visions of the "Good Job"
  8. Carbon Tax: Practicalities of Cutting a Deal
  9. Economics of Information Overload: Thoughts from Herb Simon
  10. Europe: When the Macro Overshadows the Micro
  11. US Mergers and Antitrust in 2014
  12. China\’s Economic Growth: Pause or Trap?
  13. The Aftermath of LIBOR and Penny-Shaving Attacks
  14. How Automation Affects Labor Markets: Rise of the "New Artisans"?
  15. Occupational Licensing and Its Discontents
  16. The US Financial Sector in the Long-Run: Where are the Economies of Scale?
  17. Summer 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online

July 2015

  1. After the Wright Brothers, Why Did US Mostly Lose the Airplane Market?
  2. Pushing on a String: An Origin Story
  3. Snapshots of the Global Energy
  4. What is Discouraging the Registered Voters Who Don\’t Vote?
  5. Global Anti-Tobacco Policy
  6. Parsing a Financial Transactions Tax
  7. Who Will Nudge the Nudgers?
  8. Global Carbon Intensity Rises: A Kaya Decomposition
  9. The Interface Companies of the Sharing Economy
  10. Some Economics of the Freedom of Information Act
  11. Productivity Growth and the Diffusion Problem
  12. The Declining Number of Illegal Immigrants
  13. Keynes, Secular Stagnation, and Investment Shortfalls
  14. China\’s Stock Market Performance: A 25-Year View
  15. Peak Farmland, Peak Timber, Peak Car Travel, Peak Child
  16. Greece and its Slow Growth Problem
  17. Earnings Inequality Between Companies
  18. Fourth of July: Economics and Ruminations
  19. Interview with Al Roth: Market Design When Prices Aren\’t Sufficient
  20. Puerto Rico: Echoes from Greece

June 2015

  1. Focusing on High-Cost Patients
  2. The Internet of Things
  3. Expanding Health Insurance in 2014: How Much Progress?
  4. Banning Bottled Water: Unintended Consequences
  5. Raisins: When Insiders Set the Rules
  6. Access to the Financial Sector: A Global Perspective
  7. Revisiting the AIG Bailout
  8. Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Result
  9. Some Fresh Water Economics
  10. What Lessons from Part-Timers about the US Labor Market?
  11. Power for Africa
  12. What Share Work for Large Employers?
  13. Variations in US Per Pupil Education Spending
  14. Warren Buffett: On 50 Years of Running Berkshire Hathaway
  15. Against Biofuel Subsidies: A Reprise
  16. Ths Shifting Geographic Center of the World Economy
  17. Claudia Goldin on Women, Education, and the Labor Force
  18. Debt: The Virtues and Risks of Opacity

May 2015

  1. The Economic Journal: 125th Anniversary Issue Free On-line
  2. Does Inequality Reduce Economic Growth: A Skeptical View
  3. The Sharing Economy
  4. Tradeoffs of Dollarization
  5. The Earned Income Tax Credit
  6. Quandaries of Global Trade in Secondhand Clothing
  7. E-cigs: The Bootlegger/Baptist Opposition
  8. John Stuart Mill\’s Birthday: Thoughts on Conformity and Individualism
  9. Improving the Health of US Children
  10. Bitcoin: A Remarkable Innovation and Its Limitations
  11. Factoryless Goods Producing Firms
  12. The Shifting Geographical Center of US Population
  13. China and India Overtake Mexico for Inflow of Foreign-Born US Residents
  14. The Rise of Remittances
  15. Geoengineering: Forced Upon Us?
  16. Spring 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives On-line
  17. Social Costs of the Financial Sector
  18. Some International Minimum Wage Comparisons
  19. Breakdown of US Corporate Profits
  20. Global Income Inequality In Decline
  21. The US as a Debtor Economy

April 2015

  1. The Share of Women and Other Patterns in the 1%
  2. Stiffness in the Joints of the US Economy
  3. The VAT and Consumption Taxes: International Comparisons
  4. The Status of Online of Learning in Higher Education
  5. Manufacturing Up, Pollution Down: How?
  6. Americans, Led by Democrats, Get Friendlier With Free Trade
  7. What about the EU Single Market?
  8. Why Did Sweden, of All Places, Abolish Its Century-Old Inheritance Tax?
  9. The Data Revolution and Economic Research
  10. Snapshots of Global Military Spending
  11. Natural Disasters: Insurance Costs vs. Deaths
  12. How Milton Friedman Helped Invent Income Tax Withholding
  13. Tax Expenditures
  14. When Government Pre-Fills Income Tax Returns
  15. Moore\’s Law at 50
  16. Documenting the Investment Slowdown
  17. Camera Sales — When Smartphones are Included
  18. Snapshot of Trade Imbalances: The Rise of Germany
  19. Better Batteries?
  20. Dani Rodrik on Growth, Development, and Modelling
  21. GDP and Social Welfare in the Long Run
  22. Is the World Bank Becoming Obsolete?
  23. Price Deflation, Asset Prices, and Threats to Growth
  24. Better to be a Cynic or a Sentimentalist?

March 2015

  1. Human Rights are Eggs, and Economic Rights are Croquet Balls
  2. Should Individual Tax Returns Be Public Information?
  3. Invest in Vice or Virtue?
  4. Development Targets: 169 or 19?
  5. The Rise of Mortgages: Too Much House?
  6. Singapore Snapshots and Lee Kuan Yew
  7. Digging into Capital and Labor Income Shares
  8. China\’s Consumption Transition
  9. Randomness is Lumpy: Pareidolia
  10. Data Movement Mushrooms
  11. When a Summer Job Could Pay the Tuition
  12. Remembering Murray Weidenbaum: 1927-2014
  13. Fear of Cheap Foreign Labor in the Long Depression: 1873-1879
  14. The Rare Earths Shortage: A Crisis with a Supply and Demand Answer
  15. The Economics of Media Bias
  16. US Dependency Ratios, Looking Ahead
  17. Snapshots of US Agriculture
  18. How Higher Education Perpetuates Intergenerational Inequality
  19. ATMs and a Rising Number of Bank Tellers?
  20. Six Reasons Why Economists Should Say Less About "Competition"

February 2015

  1. Buy Back Shares or Invest?
  2. Putting U.S. Labor Force Participation in Context
  3. A Decline in On-the-Job Training
  4. U.S. R&D in (Troubling) Context
  5. China\’s Economy in Two Pictures
  6. Piketty and Wealth Inequality
  7. Investment Charges When Mexico Privatized Social Security
  8. Should the US Switch to a Declining Discount Rate?
  9. Who are the Uber Drivers?
  10. Why Banks Hold Excess Reserves: Nuts and Bolts
  11. The Rising Price of Anti-Cancer Drugs
  12. The Journey to Becoming a School Reformer
  13. How Much Deleveraging Has Happened?
  14. Follow-up: Opting Out of the US Corporate Income Tax
  15. A Snapshot of University and College Endowments
  16. Winter 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives On-line
  17. The Disconnections of Unemployment Insurance
  18. 1,000 Conversable Posts
  19. Corporate Tax Reform: The Opening Obama Administration Bid
  20. The Blurry Line Between Competition and Cooperation

January 2015

  1. High School Career and Technical Education
  2. The Moynihan Report: 50 Years Later
  3. The Surprising Stability of the US Federal Budget
  4. Productivity of High-Income Countries in the Long-Run
  5. The EU Economy as Quantative Easing Arrives
  6. Where Has Welfare Reform Taken Us?
  7. Where Will the Future Global Jobs Come From?
  8. Rising Fears About Losing and Replacing Jobs
  9. Global Economic Growth: All Productivity, All the Time
  10. Some Economics for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
  11. The Hemingway Law of Motion: Gradually, then Suddenly
  12. How Medicare Spending Rises with Age
  13. Lower Oil Prices and the World Economy
  14. Westlake on the Rewards to Short-Form Writing
  15. Are U.S. Labor Markets Becoming Less Fluid?
  16. Environmental Protection and Productivity Growth: Seeking the Tradeoff
  17. 2014 U.S. Congressional Campaign Spending
  18. When Will the Federal Reserve Raise Interest Rates?
  19. Middle Class: Reflections on Identity and Aspiration
  20. Achieving Disagreement: Annual Report for 2014

2014 266

December 2014

  1. Greatest Hits of 2014
  2. International Education Attainment: US Fading
  3. Sunk Cost Fallacy: Do Children and Animals Avoid It?
  4. Property Rights in Space
  5. Charles Dickens on Seeing the Poor Around Us
  6. Charles Dickens on Masters and Hands
  7. Interview with Raj Chetty: Teacher Quality, Social Mobility, Other Topics
  8. Opting Out of the U.S. Corporate Income Tax
  9. Islamic Banking from a U.S. Angle
  10. Real or Artificial Christmas Tree?
  11. Macroprudentialism (An E-book)
  12. Snapshots of Islamic Banking
  13. Uncertainty and Management: Interview with Nicholas Bloom
  14. Economic Gains from Shale Oil and Gas
  15. Focusing Behavioral Economics on Development Professionals
  16. Biosciences Innovation
  17. Milk Production: Economies of Scale, Agriculture, Management
  18. MONIAC in Action!
  19. Women, Mathematical Skills, Academia
  20. How Did Germany Limit Unemployment in the Recession?
  21. A Global Health Care Spending Slowdown: Temporary or Permanent?
  22. Automation and Job Loss: The Fears of 1964

November 2014

  1. College Studying: 16 Hours Per Week?
  2. Lower Working Age Population and Secular Stagnation
  3. An Economist Chews Over Thanksgiving
  4. The Origins of the Value of a Statistical Life Concept
  5. Underutilized Labor in the U.S. Economy
  6. India Rebounding?
  7. Encouraging Work: Tax Incentives or Social Support?
  8. World Toilet Day
  9. Robert Solow on Topics in Productivity Growth
  10. How Many Still Without Health Insurance?
  11. Facts on U.S. Income Distribution, Before and After Taxes
  12. Fall 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives
  13. Why Experts Buy Generic
  14. Life Expectancy Risk and Annuities
  15. The Two New Tools of Monetary Policy
  16. Why Different Unemployment Measures Tell (Mostly) the Same Story
  17. Credit Without Banks: Shadow Banking
  18. A North American Vision
  19. The Excessive Sameness of Politics and Hotelling\’s Main Street
  20. Is Better Communication Longer and More Complex?
  21. Should Voting be Compulsory?

October 2014

  1. Stanley Fischer: How Far on Financial Reform?
  2. Oikonomia, Revisited
  3. The Economics of Water in the American West
  4. Political Polarization and Confirmation Bias
  5. Keeping Up with the Joneses on Energy Conservation
  6. Antitrust Goes International
  7. What Path for Development in Africa — and Elsewhere?
  8. Women and Economic Development
  9. 3% of U.S. Colleges Require Economics
  10. Putting Terrorism Risks in Context
  11. Thoughts on High-Priced Textbooks
  12. Snapshots of Global Wealth
  13. The Nobel Prize to Jean Tirole
  14. Taking Your Nobel Medal Through the Fargo Airport
  15. What Americans Know About Their Economy
  16. More on the Origins of the Free Rider Idea
  17. Will U.S. Workers Start Going Abroad?
  18. The Light Bulb Cartel and Planned Obsolescence
  19. Shadow Banking: U.S. Risks Persist
  20. Spending on Necessities and Luxuries
  21. Leveraged Loans: A Danger Spot?
  22. Time for an Infrastructure Push?

September 2014

  1. Energy-Efficient Appliances: Labels, not Subsidies
  2. Is Repeating a Grade a Useful Practice?
  3. Beyond Foreign Aid
  4. How Does Bitcoin Work
  5. Hungry Children in America
  6. Short-Term Benefits of Climate Change Policy
  7. Michael Woodford on Targetting Nominal GDP and Other Issues
  8. National Attitudes on International Trade
  9. Empathy for the Poor: A Meditation
  10. How the Free Rider Idea Evolved
  11. European Union: Functionalism and the Ratchet Effect
  12. Numbers, Fertility, and Life Expectancy for the Human Race
  13. What Was the Federal Reserve Thinking in Summer 2008?
  14. Foreign-Controlled Domestic Corporations in the United States
  15. Stuck on Economics
  16. 19th Century Fencing and Information Technology
  17. Shaping the Direction of Health Care Innovation
  18. And Here Come the Interest Payments
  19. Competition as a Form of Cooperation
  20. Attendance Rates for U.S. K-12 Teachers
  21. The Origins of Labor Day

August 2014

  1. Richard Timberlake and the Case for Monetary Rules
  2. The Secular Stagnation Controversy
  3. Outsource Corporate Boards?
  4. Does Economics Education Teach Students to Trust?
  5. New Business Establishments: The Shift to Existing Firms
  6. Property Rights and Saving the Rhino
  7. Analyzing Fair Trade
  8. Using Twitter for Perceiving Unemployment in Real Time
  9. Homeownership Rates Come Back Down the Mountain
  10. US Becomes Oil and Gas Production Leader
  11. International Minimum Wage Comparisons
  12. What\’s the Difference Between 2% and 3%?
  13. Is the Division of Labor a Form of Enslavement?
  14. Characteristics of U.S. Minimum Wage Workers
  15. Why Longer Economics Articles?
  16. Who is Holding the Large-Denomination Bills?
  17. Dodd-Frank: Unfinished and Unstarted Business
  18. LEVs in HOVs?
  19. Grade Inflation: Evidence from Two Policies
  20. Web Search Market Share
  21. The Decline of U.S. Entrepreneurship
  22. The Enigma of Russia\’s Economy

July 2014

  1. Summer 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives
  2. Deflation: The Case for Worrying Less
  3. Universal Basic Income: A Thought Experiment
  4. The Decline of Milk
  5. Beware Faraway Shareholder Meetings
  6. Long-Term Budget Deficits
  7. Unemployment and Labor Force Participation: Revisiting the Puzzle
  8. The Next Wave of Technology?
  9. Are Labor Markets Exploitative?
  10. Evidence on the Samuelson Conjecture
  11. World Trade by Region
  12. Double Irish Dutch Sandwich
  13. Snapshots of Global Energy Consumption
  14. Main St., Wall St., Pennsylvania Ave., K St.
  15. Weather, Economics, and Ken Arrow
  16. Do Markets Work for Bees?
  17. The Shifting U.S. Wealth Distribution
  18. Administrators Take Over Academia
  19. Expanding Apprenticeships
  20. Melting Pot, Salad Bowl, Chocolate Fondue
  21. Economic Underpinnings of the U.S. Revolutionary War
  22. Adam Smith and the Economics of U.S. Independence
  23. Janet Yellen Takes Macroprudential Policy Mainstream
  24. Glenn Loury on Discrimination
  25. U.S. Government Spending on Families: International Perspective

June 2014

  1. Sick Shrimp Supply Shock
  2. Sluggish US Investment
  3. Snapshots of Foreign Direct Investment
  4. Expectations and Reactions Concerning Future Technology
  5. Practical Challenges of Universal Health Insurance
  6. Small Firms and Job Creation: International Evidence
  7. Free Parking: A Gift to Whom?
  8. Trade in Services Begins to Blossom
  9. Evaluating Low-Carbon Energy Alternatives
  10. Medical R&D and Actual Health Conditions
  11. An Admirable College Book-Burning
  12. Should U.S. Government Cost-Benefit Analysis Look Outside the U.S.?
  13. Turnover on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
  14. U.S. Science; An Eroding Lead in a Global Economy
  15. Does Fair Trade Reduce Wages?
  16. How the VCR Wiped out Movies and Television
  17. More on Economics and Moral Decisions
  18. Does Foreign Aid Prolong Civil Conflicts?
  19. Is the World Already Growing Sufficient Food?
  20. The Challenge of Participation in the Globalizing Economy
  21. The U.S. Energy Picture

May 2014

  1. Hours Worked, No Change; Output, Up 42%
  2. Economics and Morality
  3. Africa: Trade Within, Trade Beyond
  4. A Shadow Banking Schematic
  5. A Heavenly Vision Without Scarcity
  6. Longer Lives and Retirement Finance Challenges
  7. US Antitrust Policy in 2013
  8. Does Growth Reduce Emigration from Low-Income Countries?
  9. Prices Around the World for Gasoline
  10. Antibiotic Resistance: A Mismanaged Public Good
  11. Volunteers for Blood, Paying for Plasma
  12. The State of U.S. High School Education in Economics
  13. Teeth Whitening, Occupational Licensing, and Antitrust
  14. Absurdities of Copyright Protection
  15. NAFTA Turns 20
  16. Chronic Disease
  17. GDP Snapshots from the International Comparison Project
  18. Patterns of U.S. Imprisonment
  19. Mark Gertler on Financial Crisis Dynamics
  20. Gary Becker and the Time Constraint
  21. Big Data in Political Campaigns
  22. Work Philosophy from Gabriel García Márquez
  23. Farewell to Notes
  24. Spring 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives
  25. Highway Patrol Traffic Enforcement

April 2014

  1. 100 Years of Consumer Price Index Data
  2. Airplane Boarding Time: Managing a Scarce Resource
  3. Grocery Shopping in France, the UK, and the US
  4. Comparing Electricity Production Costs: Fossil Fuels, Wind, Solar
  5. U.S. Airline Deregulation: The Next Step
  6. Earth Day: A Baptists and Bootleggers Story
  7. Behind the Long-Term Rise in U.S. Health Care Costs
  8. When Technology Spreads Slowly
  9. What Happened to the Great Moderation?
  10. Demand for Sand
  11. When Government Pre-Fills Income Tax Returns
  12. How Milton Friedman Helped Invent Income Tax Withholding
  13. Is the IRS Unravelling?
  14. American Centenarians
  15. Here Come the Robots?
  16. Will Real Interest Rates Bounce Back?
  17. Long-Term Unemployment and Older Workers
  18. Robber Baron Etymology
  19. Latin America: Modest Progress on Inequality
  20. What’s a Gini Coefficient?
  21. Venture Capital: Looking for the Big Ones
  22. Air Pollution: World\’s Biggest Health Hazard

March 2014

  1. Does Economics Make You a Bad Person?
  2. Warren Buffett on Index Funds for the Non-Professional Investor
  3. An Inequality Chartbook: Long-Run Patterns in 25 Countries
  4. Who Sings Homework Blues?
  5. Should Federal IT Spending be Flat?
  6. Long-Run Unemployment Arrives in the U.S. Economy
  7. Will the U.S. Dollar Remain the World\’s Reserve Currency?
  8. Eliminate U.S. Tourist Visas?
  9. How Academics Learn to Write Badly
  10. The U.S. Productivity Challenge
  11. Financial Literacy
  12. Inequality and Redistribution: An International View
  13. U.S. Teen Birthrate Plummets
  14. Selling a Kidney: Would the Option Necessarily be Beneficial?
  15. U.S. Economy Looking Good, By Comparison
  16. Hoxby on Education Reform
  17. Investigating Why People Vote
  18. U.S. Debt: Short-Term Kerfkuffle, Long-Term Challenge
  19. Primer on Ukraine\’s Economic Troubles
  20. Remembering Anna Jacobson Schwartz, 1915-2012
  21. How Budget Deficits Reduce Investment

February 2014

  1. Will We Look Back on the Euro as a Mistake?
  2. Death of a Statistic
  3. Highways of the Future
  4. Financial Services From the US Postal Service?
  5. From BRICs to MINTs?
  6. Intuition Behind the Birthday Bets
  7. The Health of US Manufacturing
  8. The Modest Effect of a Higher Minimum Wage
  9. Behavioral Investors and the Dumb Money Effect
  10. Moore\’s Law: At Least a Little Longer
  11. Jousting over the One Percent
  12. How the 2009 Tax Haven Agreement Failed
  13. A German Employment Miracle Narrative
  14. Lesser Known Improvements in the US Labor Market
  15. Can Other Lenders Beat Back Payday Lending?
  16. Lyndon Johnson\’s War on Poverty Speech
  17. Division of Labor: GM, Toyota and Adam Smith
  18. Administrators and Part-Timers: Changes in U.S. Higher Education Workforce
  19. Winter 2014 Journal of Economic Perspectives is Live!
  20. Halfway to Full Economic Recovery
  21. Economics of Human Sacrifice
  22. Income Mobility

January 2014

  1. Eating Out
  2. How Pedestrian Countdown Signals Cause Auto Accidents
  3. The Status of Microfinance
  4. Smoking, 50 Years Later
  5. Improper Federal Payments of $100 Billion Annually
  6. U.S. Household Finances Rebound
  7. When Cancer Risk Information is Useless
  8. A Fiscal Crisis: Top Concern for 2014?
  9. First Burger Grown from Stem Cells Served in London
  10. High-Skilled Immigrants and U.S. Innovation
  11. Limited U.S. Power in a Globalizing Economy
  12. What\’s Up with Muhammad Yunus and Grameen Bank?
  13. Larry Summers, Who Always Has Something Interesting to Say
  14. Neil Wallace on the Underpinnings of Money
  15. The Slowdown in Rising U.S. Healthcare Costs
  16. Best Friends, Best Opponents: Malthus and Ricardo
  17. The Last Chapter of Gender Workplace Convergence
  18. Interview with John Cochrane: Regulation, Bailouts, Debt, and More
  19. Why the Uninsured Don\’t Have More Emergency Room Visits
  20. Countries Where More People Give–Or Don\’t
  21. The Moral Significance of Economic Life: Aristotle vs. Locke
  22. Annual Report from the Conversable Economist for 2013

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