Jane Waldfogel, “What the U.S. can learn from Britain’s war on poverty” (ht Miles Corak)

Timothy Taylor, “McWages around the world” (ht Mark Thoma)

Janet Gornick and Markus Jantti, “Child poverty in high- and middle-income countries”

Peter Edelman, So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So Hard to End Poverty in America

Rebecca Blank, Changing Inequality

Timothy Noah, The Great Divergence

Paolo Lucchino and Salvatore Morelli, “Inequality, debt, and growth”

Scott Winship, “The 1% conundrum: How much income inequality is there, really?”

Scott Winship, “What really happened to income inequality in the 20th century?”

House and Senate bills reduce the deficit, slow health care costs, and include realistic Medicare savings, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Don’t kill the bill, continued, by Jonathan Cohn

What can families actually afford?, by Jonathan Cohn

The health-care bill has no master plan for curbing costs. Is that a bad thing?, by Atul Gawande

Why I still believe in this bill, by Jacob Hacker

Five cost controls in the Senate health-care bill, by Ezra Klein

The death of the public option, by Ezra Klein

The importance of the individual mandate, by Ezra Klein

Health reform: thank the Club for Growth, by Paul Krugman

Pass the bill, by Paul Krugman

Tidings of comfort, by Paul Krugman

If health reform fails, America’s innovation gap will grow, by David Leonhardt

Defend and demand: the progressive way forward, by Theda Skocpol

Why progressives should support a Democratic compromise, by Paul Starr

Fifth wheel, by James Surowiecki

Reasons not to kill the Senate bill, by Igor Volsky

Why I prefer French health care, by Matt Welch (via Jeff Weintraub)

Drop the mandate?, by Matthew Yglesias

Health reform will save people money, by Matthew Yglesias

The success of the public option campaign, by Matthew Yglesias

Environment

Bjorn Lomborg and Pual Krugman debate policies to address climate change

Getting warmer, The Economist

One accord, yet discord, by Fiona Harvey, Ed Crooks, and Andrew Ward

An affordable truth, by Paul Krugman

Unhelpful Hansen, by Paul Krugman

What you need to know following the Copenhagen climate summit, by Andrew Light, Daniel Weiss, and Rebecca Lefton

Evidence of a warming planet, New York Times

In face of skeptics, experts affirm climate peril, by Andrew Revkin and John Broder

Why Copenhagen must be the end of the beginning, by Martin Wolf

U.S. economy

The fairness of financial rescue, by Brad DeLong

Ten ways to move the budget back to a sustainable path, by Jeffrey Frankel

Age of diminished expectations, by Paul Krugman

Bernanke’s unfinished mission, by Paul Krugman

Is criticism of the Bernanke Fed justified?, by Mark Thoma

Will economists ever learn?, by Mark Thoma

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Inequality: a problem?, by Bruce Bartlett

Bankers had cashed in before the music stopped, by Lucian Bebchuk, Alma Cohen, and Holger Spamann

Workforce Investment Act reauthorization, by Gordon Berlin (via Shawn Fremstad)

Battered by the storm, by Deepak Bhargava et al

Obama sets plan to spur job creation, by Jackie Calmes

Are the naughties the best decade ever?, by Tyler Cowen

American jobs plan, Economic Policy Institute

The next war on poverty, by Peter Edelman

Why welfare reform has failed, by Peter Edelman and Barbara Ehrenreich

Men without jobs, by Justin Fox

Economic growth and convergence, by Stephen Gordon

If billionaires don’t feel guilty about walking away from their debts, should homeowners?, by Daniel Gross

Yes, inequality really is getting a lot worse, by Zubin Jelveh

The big zero, by Paul Krugman

Poll reveals depth and trauma of joblessness in U.S., by Michael Luo and Megan Thee-Brenan

Short-time work carries long-term consequences, by Stanley Pignal and Daniel Schafer

“Unbanked” America, by Catherine Rampell

Worrisome thoughts on the way to the jobs summit, by Robert Reich

Making job creation a priority, by Christina Romer (via Mark Thoma)

A way to share in a nation’s growth, by Robert Shiller

The administration’s job creation proposal is inadequate, by Mark Thoma

The fed can help, but fiscal policy is the key to job creation, by Mark Thoma

Labor data show a surge in hiring of temp workers, by Louis Uchitelle

The squeeze before the storm, by Edward Wolff

Taxes

America’s fiscal deficit, The Economist

Governments differ dramatically in how they tax, The Economist

How to run up a deficit, without fear, by Robert H. Frank

Many see the VAT option as a cure for deficits, by Catherine Rampell

U.S. income tax not progressive at high end, by Martin Sullivan (via Catherine Rampell)

Should taxes be progressive?, by Mark Thoma

Education

Schools that beat the odds, by Harry Brighouse

Are our colleges teaching students well?, by Kevin Carney

Teachers score higher than other professionals in well-being, Gallup

Cities

What makes cities great, by Edward Glaeser

Green cities, by Matthew Kahn

The Detroit project, by Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley

U.S. politics

After health care, we need Senate reform, by Ezra Klein

Seven stories Politico fears, by Ezra Klein

A dangerous dysfunction, by Paul Krugman

The Senate without the filibuster, by Brendan Nyhan

Three myths about political independents, by John Sides

What have we learned from the health care debate?, by John Sides

What we don’t know about polarization, by John Sides

Abroad

The economic crisis has revealed the failings of global organisations, by Alan Beattie

The familiar road to failure in Afghanistan, by Rodric Braithwaite

In Chile, many are optimistic that prosperity is coming, by Juan Forero

The ascent, and fall, of Dubai, by Edward Glaeser

Is “growth with equity” getting old?, by Duncan Green

The state of the war in Afghanistan, New York Times

Countries in misery, by Floyd Norris

What works in devleopment?, Dani Rodrik, Lant Pritchett, and others

Obama adds troops, but maps exit plan, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Helene Cooper

Trade policy lessons from Mexico under NAFTA, by Eduardo Zepeda, Timothy A. Wise, and Kevin P. Gallagher

Miscelleneous

Notes on a class, by Harry Brighouse

Distilling famous thinkers, by Tyler Cowen

What are the odds that the best chess player in the world has never played chess?, by Tyler Cowen

Paul Samuelson, 1915-2009, by Avinash Dixit

The death of the boring blog post, by Paddy Donnelly

Ever-increasing choice was supposed to mean the end of the blockbuster, The Economist

Getting rid of academic journals or changing the review system?, by Andrew Gelman

Remembering Paul Samuelson, who forever fused economics with math, by Edward Glaeser

Divorce rate trends — selective framing, by Graphic Sociology

Variable geometry premiership, by Jonathan Hopkin

Night, by Tony Judt

What is living and what is dead in social democracy, by Tony Judt

The decade of the con, by Frank Rich

Ten ways to cut health-care costs right now, by Catherine Arnst

A milestone in the health care journey, by Ronald Brownstein

Mass appeal, by Jonathan Cohn

The House bill is “worse than nothing”? Really?, by Jonathan Cohn

We know how this debate ends. Or do we?, by Jonathan Cohn

What should we do instead of the Obama health reform bill?, by Tyler Cowen

Maybe a new day for doctors’ pay, by Robert H. Frank

The House public plan: yes, it’s worth it, by Jacob Hacker and Diane Archer

George Halvorson, Kaiser Permanente CEO, interviewed by Ezra Klein, parts one and two

Dutch view of choice in U.S. health care: it’s limited, by Gardiner Harris

Why is the Senate going to take so long?, by Suzy Khimm

An excise tax would raise workers’ wages by $313 billion, according to the Joint Tax Committee, by Ezra Klein

An insurance industry CEO explains why American health care costs so much, by Ezra Klein

Does health-care reform do enough on cost control? Interview with Jon Gruber, by Ezra Klein

Has the public-option fight been good for health-care reform?, by Ezra Klein

Health-care reform’s grand bargain, by Ezra Klein

Is a flawed health-care bill better than no bill at all?, by Ezra Klein

Is the weak public option bad politics?, by Ezra Klein

Why the Senate bill is better than the House bill on cost control, by Ezra Klein

Harry, Louise, and Barack, by Robert Kuttner

Falling far short of reform, by David Leonhardt

Making health care better, by David Leonhardt

The half-full health reform glass, by Maggie Mahar

A modest public plan, New York Times

Reform and medical costs, New York Times

A prescription for the healers, by Harold Pollack

Fighting the wrong health care battle, by Paul Starr

Skepticism on how well health bills cut costs, by Sheryl Gay Stolberg

Why we need an individual mandate, by Mark Thoma

Next battle for health care, by Matthew Yglesias

U.S. economy

Stimulus and jobs: we can do better, by Dean Baker

Threatening the Fed’s independence, by Alan Blinder

Counting the jobs produced by the stimulus, by Gary Burtless

New consensus sees stimulus package as worthy step, by Jackie Calmes and Michael Cooper

A macro policy catechism, by Brad DeLong

Basic background deficit math, by Brad DeLong

Slouching toward sanity, by Brad DeLong

Why are good policies bad politics?, by Brad DeLong

Are bankers worth their big paychecks?, by Justin Fox

Counting “jobs saved” by Obama fiscal stimulus, by Jeff Frankel

The roller coaster of economic indicators, by Jeff Frankel

Unending stimulus, or temporary stimulus followed by restraint?, by William Galston

The lost generation, by Paul Krugman

The phantom menace, by Paul Krugman

Too little of a good thing, by Paul Krugman

Recovery and debt: squaring the circle, by Robert Kuttner

Through a glass less darkly, by David Leonhardt

The GDP mirage, by Michael Mandel

A shaky start, by Mark Thoma

How to prevent the next financial crisis, by Mark Thoma

Will there be a new “normal” for unemployment?, by Mark Thoma

Worries about budget deficits and inflation: let’s avoid repeating our mistakes, by Mark Thoma

GDP data overstate the nation’s economic vigor, by Louis Uchitelle

Give us austerity and fiscal rectitude, but not quite yet, by Martin Wolf

Help small businesses hire again, by Mark Zandi

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Sociability predicts happiness, by Stefano Bartolini and colleagues (via Chris Dillow)

Taming the stock option game, by Lucian Bebchuk and Jesse Fried

Pay controls once again, by Gary Becker

The case for a job-creation tax credit, by John Bishop

Can our shameful prisons be reformed?, by David Cole

49 million Americans report a lack of food, by Jason DeParle

Food Stamp use soars, and stigma fades, by Jason DeParle and Robert Gebeloff

Recession to leave permanent scars, by Chris Giles

The innovation administration, by Dana Goldstein

Job injuries are habitually underreported, by Steven Greenhouse

White House endorses paid sick leave bill, by Steven Greenhouse

Social isolation and new technology, by Keith Hampton, Lauren Sessions, Eun Ja Her, and Lee Rainie

4 in 10 families lack money for essential household expenses when unemployed, Institute on Assets and Social Policy (via Mark Thoma)

Is California finished?, by John Judis

The jobs imperative, by Paul Krugman

What’s wrong with America’s jobs policy, by Paul Krugman

A wake-up call on jobs, by Robert Kuttner

Job woes exacting a heavy toll on family life, by Michael Luo

The poverty trap, by Greg Mankiw

Concerns grow for new lost generation, by Sarah O’Connor

Pay caps for financial executives, by Richard Posner

Women earn less than men, especially at the top, by Catherine Rampell

Economy is forcing young adults back home in record numbers, by Sam Roberts

Obama has lost his way on jobs, by Jeffrey Sachs

Five myths about our land of opportunity, by Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins

Teenage jobs and the minimum wage, by Heidi Shierholz

Perceptions of crime and the economy, by John Sides

The internet and civic engagement, by Aaron Smith, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Henry Brady

Bankers are likely to reap millions from efforts to curb pay, by Louise Story

Mortgage delinquencies reach a record high, by David Streitfeld

Jobs now, deficit reduction later, by Laura D’Andrea Tyson

Open access needed, by Matthew Yglesias

Taxes

Financial transactions tax comes before value-added tax, by Dean Baker

The Europeanization of America, by Bruce Bartlett

The impact of state income taxes on low-income families, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Entitlement spending and the long-term budget outlook, by Douglas Elmendorf

Taxing the speculators, by Paul Krugman

How the tax code encourages debt, by James Surowiecki

Tax subsidies are subsidies, by Matthew Yglesias

Education

Why California’s tuition hike might be a good thing, by Ian Ayres

Dreams of better schools, by Andrew Delbanco

What the 2009 NAEP math scores tell us, by Lisa Guernsey

Inequality goes to college, set of articles in The American Prospect

Immigration

White House plan on immigration includes legal status, by Julia Preston

Environment

Obama offers targets to cut greenhouse gas, by John Broder

Is there a quick fix for the environment?, by Elizabeth Kolbert

Globalization

World out of balance, by Paul Krugman

Unions

Obama and the unions, The Economist

Trade unions’ decline around the world, by Catherine Rampell

The changing face of unions, by John Schmitt and Kris Warner

U.S. politics

Politicians have a lot of leeway in how they vote, by Andrew Gelman

The Senate’s health care calculations, by Andrew Gelman, Nate Silver, and Daniel Lee

Good governance, by Thomas Friedman

Why Americans hate to love government, by John Judis

Four ways to end the filibuster, by Ezra Klein

Paranoia strikes deep, by Paul Krugman

Does unemployment affect midterm elections?, by Seth Masket

Progressive values are dominant, but Americans lack trust in government effectiveness, by Nathan Newman

The staggering rise of the filibuster, by Robert Schlesinger (via Ezra Klein)

When did the Senate get so bad?, by Mark Schmitt

How the government can make us better at self-government, by David Villano

White men are not very progressive, by Matthew Yglesias

Abroad

What makes a nation rich?, by Daron Acemoglu

Free-market ideals survive the crunch, by Alan Beattie and Geoff Dyer

Economic parity remains a German dream, by Bertrand Benoit

The problem with half-measures in Afghanistan, by Stephen Biddle

Global hunger, by Javier Blas

Europe’s new president, by Stephen Castle and Steven Erlanger

Bringing war criminals to justice is a slow business, but the net is widening, The Economist

Lower fertility is changing the world for the better, The Economist

Sarkozy’s reforms, by Ban Hall and Peggy Hollinger

How can we help the world’s poor?, by Nicholas Kristof

China’s rise?, by John Plender

Whether or not it is good for Europe, it is very bad for Belgium, by Ingrid Robeyns

Public opinion two decades after the fall of the wall, by Joshua Tucker

Brazil’s Bolsa Familia scheme, by David White

Letter from Gaza, by Lawrence Wright

A third surge?, by Fareed Zakaria

Miscellaneous

The behavioral economics of Thanksgiving eating, by Ezra Klein

I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop; then it destroyed my life, by Michael Idov (via Ezra Klein)

What’s next for macroeconomics?, by John Quiggin

Twilight of the op-ed columnist, by Paul Waldman

Health insurance exchanges: will they work?, by Reed Abelson

Going Dutch: life after the public option, by Jonathan Cohn

How health care reform won, by Jonathan Cohn

No choice?, by Jonathan Cohn

The public option lives, by Jonathan Cohn

The top ten things worth fighting for, by Jonathan Cohn

How an insurance mandate could leave many worse off, by Tyler Cowen

The best of the health reform proposals, by Elise Gould and Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Trigger unhappy, by Jacob Hacker

The penalty box, by Peter Harbage

Hawaii’s health system offers wide coverage and low costs, by Gardiner Harris

Reid’s big gamble (or is it?), by David Herszenhorn

A guide to the public option compromises in the Senate, by Ezra Klein

Expansion team, by Ezra Klein

Explaining the excise tax, by Ezra Klein

How the House and Senate bills will differ, by Ezra Klein

Should America copy the Dutch?, by Ezra Klein

The next step for health-care reform, by Ezra Klein

What do the insurers want?, by Ezra Klein

After reform passes, by Paul Krugman

If you build a coverage mandate, will they come?, by Alec MacGillis

The strength of European systems is portable coverage, by Michael Scott Moore

Mandates and affordability, New York Times

The public plan, continued, New York Times

Where do those without health insurance live?, by Floyd Norris

Missing the boat on cost containment, by Peter Orzsag

Why does the U.S. spend so much more on health than other countries?, by Mark Pearson

Hold the Mayo, by Harold Pollack

The case for mandating health insurance, by Uwe Reinhardt

Medicaid enrollment soars, by Kevin Sack

Swiss health care thrives without public option, by Nelson Schwartz

Health care in Denmark, by Matthew Yglesias

Health care in Sweden, by Matthew Yglesias

U.S. economy

Why do economists disagree so much on whether fiscal stimulus works?, The Economist

Shoppers’ shifting priorities, by Hannah Fairfield

Bruce Bartlett and supply-side economics, by James Galbraith

The wisdom of not nationalizing, by Ezra Klein

Misguided monetary mentalities, by Paul Krugman

Mission not accomplished, by Paul Krugman

The banks are not all right, by Paul Krugman

It’s the unemployment, stupid, by Robert Kuttner

Partisan economics in action, by David Leonhardt

Inside the crisis: Larry Summers and the White House economic team, by Ryan Lizza

Should we save or spend?, by Roger Lowenstein

They didn’t regulate enough and still don’t, by Jeff Madrick

Wall Street follies: the next act, by Gretchen Morgenson

A second Great Depression is still possible, by Thomas Palley

Pay restrictions may not fix underlying risk-taking, by Steven Pearlstein

Do not ignore the need for financial reform, by George Soros

Inconspicuous consumption, by James Surowiecki

People don’t know how they’re being helped, by Matthew Yglesias

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Happiness isn’t everything, by Julia Baird

Sick over sick days, by Dean Baker

How to create more jobs, by Timothy Bartik, James Galbraith, and Randall Wray

The high price of being a gay couple, by Tara Siegel Bernard and Ron Lieber

As job losses rise, Obama aides look to fix safety net, by Jackie Calmes

The Shriver report: a woman’s nation changes everything, Center for American Progress

Democrats and inequality, by Jonathan Chait

Life expectancy by incom, 1800 to 2007, by Arthur Charpentier

Study finds high imprisonment rate among dropouts, by Sam Dillon

Disenchantment with work is growing, The Economist

A plan to end the jobs crisis, by Ross Eisenbrey

Are federal workers overpaid?, by Nancy Folbre

Global income inequality, by Zubin Jelveh

Inequality of obesity, by Ezra Klein

Growth and jobs, by Paul Krugman

U.S. to order pay cuts at firms that got most aid, by Stephen Labaton

Are those $250 checks just pandering to seniors?, David Leonhardt vs. Dean Baker (via Mark Thoma)

How did “scientific management” become a way of life?, by Jill Lepore

Complete life satisfaction, by Daniel Little (via Mark Thoma)

Americans in their 50s and 80s are least happy, by Catherine Rampell

The job market, in charts, by Catherine Rampell

What should be done for jobs?, by Robert Reich

Did the pay czar whiff?, by Noam Scheiber

How the recession is killing private social insurance, by Noam Scheiber

Inequality as policy: the United States since 1979, by John Schmitt

Hunger, crowding, and other hardships are widespread among families in poverty, by Arloc Sherman

Crime: the striking gap between perceptions and reality, by John Sides

Crime: perceptions and reality, redux, by John Sides

Time to tackle America’s widening inequality, by Matthew Slaughter

Bonuses at Goldman Sachs, by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Still on the job, but at half the pay, by Louis Uchitelle

A public option for broadband, by Matthew Yglesias

Inequality: facts and values, Will Wilkinson, John Nye, Elizabeth Anderson, and Lane Kenworthy

Taxes

Bend the revenue curve, by Henry Aaron and Isabel Sawhill

Will the real marginal tax rate please stand up?, by Rosanne Altshuler and Jacob Goldin

Don’t cut the payroll tax, by Bruce Bartlett

Rising taxes squeeze local operations, by Jane Birnbaum

Tax evaders face choice: pay or pray, by Lynnley Browning

Inside the business war against tax reform, BusinessWeek

Pelosi, the VAT, and Club Wagner, by David Leonhardt

The value added tax, by Greg Mankiw

Where the Bush tax breaks went, New York Times

State tax revenues falling off a cliff, by Catherine Rampell

The estate tax, by Catherine Rampell

The incredible shrinking estate tax, by Bob Williams

Whither revenues?, by Bob Williams

Taxes, taxes everywhere, by Matthew Yglesias

Education

The future of the university, by Brad DeLong

Kristof’s misplaced war on teacher unions, by Richard Kahlenberg

Democrats and schools, by Nicholas Kristof

The uneducated American, by Paul Krugman

College costs keep rising, by Tamar Lewin

Housing

Treasury hails milestone in home loan modifications, by Peter Goodman

Globalization

Offshorability, by Alan Blinder

Myth of rising protectionism, by Dani Rodrik

Unions

Trade unions in Canada, The Economist

U.S. politics

There is no common ground anymore, by Emily Badger

The wizard of Beck, by David Brooks

Why can’t liberals accept victory?, by Jonathan Chait

Nine months into the Obama administration: a look, by Brad DeLong

It’s not all about the benjamins, by Lee Drutman

Lobbying and influence reform, by Lee Drutman

Relationships, expertise, and the revolving door, by Lee Drutman

The imbalanced lobbying system, by Lee Drutman

Rich Dem, poor Dem, by Thomas Edsall

Rich voter, poor voter, red voter, blue voter: usually but not always, by Andrew Gelman

Congressmen matter, by Ezra Klein

Filibustering and deliberation, by Greg Koger

If a deficit falls in the forest …, by Paul Krugman

The politics of spite, by Paul Krugman

Assessing the GOP brand, by Brendan Nyhan

How Irving Kristol, RIP, can save the GOP, by Jacob Weisberg

Republicans run their political party the right way, by Matthew Yglesias

Abroad

Several Afghan strategies, none a clear choice, by Peter Baker and Eric Schmitt

Chilean president rides high as term ends, by Alexei Barrionuevo

The rise of obesity in Europe, by Giorgio Brunello, Pierre-Carol Michaud, and Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano

Comparing public spending and priorities across OECD countries, by Sabina Dewan and Michael Ettlinger

Education in the Arab world, The Economist

Financial innovation and the poor, The Economist

Italy’s manufacturing hubs have not withstood the recession as hoped, The Economist

The future of the EU, The Economist

French ideal of bicycle-sharing meets reality, by Steven Erlanger and Maia de la Baume

Don’t build up, by Thomas Friedman

Education and economic growth, by Edward Glaeser

What happened to Argentina?, by Edward Glaeser

Job losses around the world, by Brian Groom

Iceland after a year of financial crisis, by Robert Jackson

More schools, not troops, by Nicholas Kristof

The myth of Eurabia, by Simon Kuper

Finland tops global prosperity index, by Julie MacIntosh

Our endless desire to decode the French, by Donald Morrison

Maradona as metaphor for Argentines, by Charles Newbery and Alexei Barrionuevo

By some reliable measures, the recession is over, by Floyd Norris

The lands between Russia and China, by David Pilling

Finland makes broadband access a legal right, by Don Reisinger (via Tyler Cowen)

India’s malnutrition dilemma, by David Rieff

Can new farming methods, fairer trade, and birth control provide for a future global population of 9 billion?, by Tristram Stuart

The gender gap around the world, World Economic Forum (via Catherine Rampell)

The idea of a bargain, by Matthew Yglesias

More troops won’t solve Afghanistan, by Fareed Zakaria

Miscellaneous

Robin Hood, by Peter Applebome

Economics as a moral science, by Tony Atkinson (via Mark Thoma)

On Irving Kristol, politics, and The Public Interest, by Daniel Bell

Polanski and the maiden, by Christopher Caldwell

Just how relevant is political science?, by Patricia Cohen

Evidence vs. effectiveness?, by Chris Dillow

Polanski: some cognitive biases, by Chris Dillow

Review of Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy, by Henry Farrell

Against meat, or at least 99 percent of it, by Jonathan Safran Foer

Contrarianism’s end?, Free Exchange

The calorie-restriction experiment, by Jon Gertner

How different are dogfighting and football?, by Malcolm Gladwell

Austan Goolsbee, D.C.’s funniest celebrity

Abortion worldwide: a decade of uneven progress, Guttmacher Institute

Pissing off the other crowd, by Kieran Healy

The state of families, class, and culture, by Arlie Hochschild

Bending the curve: effective steps to address long-term health care spending growth, by Joseph Antos et al

Three keys to successful health care reform, by Sarah Bianchi

The truth about malpractice lawsuits, BusinessWeek

No, we can’t all get along on health care, by Jonathan Cohn

Reconciliation: why most Dems don’t want to go there, by Jonathan Cohn

8 questions about health care reform, by Ceci Connolly and Alex MacGillis

Americans still don’t trust government, but they could go for a health care plan like this, by William Galston

What health care reform really looks like, Health Care for America Now

Post-August public opinion on health-care reform, by Ezra Klein

Profit and the insurance industry, by Ezra Klein

The best argument against the public option, and the best counterargument, by Ezra Klein

The current thinking on reconciliation, by Ezra Klein

The new bipartisanship, by Ezra Klein

The public plan is not the same thing as cost control, by Ezra Klein

Changing health care by steps, by David Leonhardt

How a tax can cut health costs, by David Leonhardt

Medical malpractice system is expensive in all the wrong ways, by David Leonhardt

Lessons for Obama from Ted Kennedy’s noble flops, by Matt Miller

Issues that can sway the vote on health care, New York Times

Senate Finance Committee rejects public option, New York Times

Listen to your doctors, by Harold Pollack

Rating public and private health insurance, by Catherine Rampell

Your health care benefits, in charts, by Catherine Rampell

The lessons from history on health care reform, by Robert Reich

Why a trigger for a public option is nonsense, by Robert Reich

No country for sick men, by T.R. Reid

How much money do insurance companies make?, by Uwe Reinhardt

The case for killing granny, by Evan Thomas

Health reform’s missing ingredient, by Ron Wyden

U.S. economy

Leading indicators rise for fifth month straight, Associated Press

We can’t cut spending, by Bruce Bartlett

The wait for financial reform, by Alan Blinder

The next financial crisis, by Peter Boone and Simon Johnson

Forget the Tobin tax: there is a better way to curb finance, by Willem Buiter

Reflections on the causes and consequences of the debt crisis of 2008, by Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden

Did the structure of banker pay cause the crisis?, by Tyler Cowen

Macroeconomic policy for a stronger recovery, by Brad DeLong

The financial crisis will change central banking more than many central bankers care to admit, The Economist

Tobin taxes: the wrong tool for the job, The Economist

Can the future be built in America?, by Pete Engardio

The case for a global central bank, by Jeffrey Garten

The financial crisis and America’s casino culture, by Peter Goodman

Did bankers’ pay add to this mess?, by Mark Hulbert

How did economists get it so wrong?, by Paul Krugman

Memories of the Carter administration, by Paul Krugman

Reform or bust, by Paul Krugman

The 4 percent solution, by Paul Krugman

Will we eventually have a true theory that’s as beautiful as the neoclassical one?, by Paul Krugman

Robert Shiller and the danger of metaphors, by James Kwak

Healthcare can get America working, by Michael Lind

What the economy needs now, by Lawrence Mishel

A rich uncle is picking up the borrowing slack, by Floyd Norris

Comparing this recession to previous ones: job losses, by Catherine Rampell

The Tobin tax lives again, by Dani Rodrik

In defense of financial innovation, by Robert Shiller

Reinventing economics, by Robert Shiller

Taking a chance on risk, again, by Andrew Ross Sorkin

Turner is asking the right questions on finance, by Martin Wolf

Why it is still too early to start withdrawing stimulus, by Martin Wolf

Why narrow banking alone is not a solution for finance, by Martin Wolf

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Obama outlines retirement initiatives, by Edmund Andrews

Income gap widens as poor take hit in recession, Associated Press

The real story on real wages, by Dean Baker

Broken laws, unprotected workers, by Annette Bernhardt, Ruth Milkman, and Nik Theodore

Great society 2.0, by Ryan Blitstein

Family income free fall, by Heather Boushey

CEO pay still out of sync, BusinessWeek

More coverage for domestic partners, BusinessWeek

Income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States: 2008, Census Bureau

Top 1% of Americans reaped two-thirds of income gains in last economic expansion, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Food workers increasingly exist in a legal limbo, by Nancy Cleeland

Report of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress

What’s really wrong with Wall Street pay, by Eric Dash

Some city governments are using their economic muscle to promote good jobs, by Peter Dreier

Lavish public spending on the well-being of children does not always hit the mark, The Economist

The recession’s racial divide, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Dedrick Muhammad

US families turn to food stamps as wages drop, Financial Times

Valuing unpaid work matters, especially for the poor, by Nancy Folbre

The good war and the workers, by Steve Fraser

Low-wage workers are often cheated, study says, by Steven Greenhouse

A modest proposal to end those outlandish bonuses, by Christopher Hughes

Wall St Journal wrong on economic inequality, by Bruce Judson

Out of work, and too down to search on, by Michael Luo

Which side is government on?, by David Moberg

Making ends meet on $21,834 a year, by Andrea Orr

Pensions, 1980 vs. today, by Catherine Rampell

New 2008 poverty, income data reveal only the tip of the recession iceberg, by Heidi Shierholz

A decent work agenda for the Obama administration, by Paul Sonn and Annette Bernhardt

Toward a better measure of well-being, by Joseph Stiglitz

Big nonprofit organizations have highly-paid leaders, USA Today (via Dean Baker)

Standing up for GDP, by Will Wilkinson

Environment

The new sputnik, by Thomas Friedman

Cassandras of climate, by Paul Krugman

It’s easy being green, by Paul Krugman

EPA moves to curtail greenhouse gas emissions, New York Times

If you want to save energy, leave the suburbs, by Witold Rybczynski

Taxes

View from Canada: the national sales tax, by Ian Austen

Fiscal responsibility requires higher taxes, by Bruce Bartlett

A tiny tax could do a world of good, by Philippe Douste-Blazy

Big government and housing, by Howard Gleckman

A virtuous tax, by Robert Kuttner

Big government: much bigger than you think, by Eric Toder

Globalization

Obama’s tariffs may be smart move after all, by Alan Beattie

Stupid tire tariffs, by Brad DeLong

Symposium on the collapse in world trade, Gary Hufbauer and others

Education

College education online, by Kevin Carey

Graduates in the US see the biggest pay benefit, Financial Times

Colleges are failing in graduation rates, by David Leonhardt

The college calculation, by David Leonhardt

Schooling pays off in more ways than money, by Philip Oreopoulos and Kjell Salvanes

Poor students at rich colleges, by Catherine Rampell

Teacher pay around the world, by Catherine Rampell

Housing

Ugly truths about housing, by Edward Glaeser

U.S. politics

“Government” still not popular, by Steve Benen

Do governments affect spending?, by Chris Dillow

Why bipartisanship matters, by Kevin Drum

What does the Congressional Budget Office do? Doug Elmendorf interviewed by Ezra Klein

Winning with the economy, or without it, by Stanley Greenberg

Job one, by John Judis

The case for filibustering, by Greg Koger

Roosevelt, the great divider, by Jean Edward Smith

Are the Republicans now officially a southern party?, by Joshua Tucker

Abroad

My preferred exile, by Tyler Cowen

Chinese century may be a long time coming, by Geoff Dyer

The anarchy of success, by William Easterly

Is Africa an exception to the rule that countries reap a demographic dividend as they grow richer?, The Economist

Japan’s election, The Economist

The strange chill in Chile, The Economist

Europe’s socialists suffering even in bad capitalist times, by Steven Erlanger

Germany’s election, Financial Times

From baby-sitting to adoption, by Thomas Friedman

Can liberalism be both opposed to imperialism and devoted to human rights?, by Richard Just

The Afghanistan abyss, by Nicholas Kristof

Child mortality rate declines globally, New York Times

America has passed on the baton, by Jeffrey Sachs

Norway’s election, by Joshua Tucker

Where the foreigners are, by Matthew Yglesias

Miscelleneous

Online archive of The Public Interest

Let the children play (more), by Stuart Brown

Wealthcare, by Jonathan Chait

What is conservatism?, by Tyler Cowen

Coming out in middle school, by Benoit Denizet-Lewis

Drug decriminalization: evidence from Portugal, The Economist

Presentations, Ignite-style, by Henry Farrell

The self-storage self, by Jon Mooallem

Why does tennis have fewer unique winners than golf?, by Hareesh Nagarajan (via Tyler Cowen)

The Daily Beast seeks to publish books quickly, New York Times

How to read a column, by William Safire

Are your friends making you fat?, by Clive Thompson

Why do we need health care reform?, by Jonathan Alter

Health care reform flowchart, by Nick Beaudrot (via Paul Krugman)

Progress, not perfection, by Paul Begala

Tax reform’s lesson for health care reform, by Bill Bradley

Is there anything Obama could have done differently to avoid the current health care mess?, by Jonathan Cohn

Jonathan Cohn talks health care on The Colbert Report

How does the quality of U.S. health care compare internationally?, by Elizabeth Docteur and Robert Berenson

San Francisco’s public option that works, by William Dow, Arindrajit Dube, and Carrie Hoverman Colla

Trillion dollar health reform, $3 trillion in tax cuts, by Howard Gleckman

How American health care killed my father, by David Goldhill

Against giving up on the public option, by Ezra Klein

Can reconciliation work for health care reform?, by Ezra Klein

It’s not about the insurers, at least not totally, by Ezra Klein

The evolution of the public option, by Ezra Klein

The liberal revolt, by Ezra Klein

The two-bill strategy, by Ezra Klein

Real choice? It’s off limits in health bills, by David Leonhardt

Should fat people pay more for health insurance?, by David Leonhardt

Democrats weigh the calculus of public insurance, by Alec MacGillis

Your handy health care reform cheat sheet, by Alec MacGillis

Health reform: the fateful moment, by Theodore Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander

Myths and falsehoods about health care reform, by Media Matters

Curbing runaway health inflation, New York Times

Majority rule on health care reform, New York Times

The uninsured, New York Times

The public plan, New York Times

Why we need health care reform, by Barack Obama

A primer on the details of health care reform, by Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn

Co-op plan as health option muddies the debate, by Robert Pear and Gardiner Harris

Beware authoritative “inside Washington” sources who say the public option is dead, by Robert Reich

Five myths about health care around the world, by T.R. Reid

Financing health care reform, by Uwe Reinhardt

Lost in the shuffle: the overarching goals of health reform, by Uwe Reinhardt

Who needs the public option?, by Uwe Reinhardt

Status-quo anxiety, by James Surowiecki

A public option isn’t a curse, or a cure, by Richard Thaler

Change is tough, so liberals can’t just leave it to Obama, by Michael Tomasky

For many consumers, few insurance choices, by Anne Underwood

Eight protections for health care consumers, by Matthew Yglesias

Who needs a public option?, by Matthew Yglesias

Yesterday’s compromise is tomorrow’s triumph, by Matthew Yglesias

U.S. economy

Central bankers suggest rebound may have begun, by Edmund Andrews

How a little inflation could help a lot, by Tyler Cowen

Sketch of a talk on the history of macroeconomic thought since 1960, by Brad DeLong

Why aren’t we undergoing another Great Depression?, by Brad DeLong

Don’t let the stimulus lose its spark, by Robert H. Frank

An evaluation of the first 200 days of Obama economics, by Jeff Frankel

Overmighty finance levies a tithe on growth, by Benjamin Friedman

How central bankers’ jobs will change, by Krishna Guha

Averting the worst, by Paul Krugman

Till debt does its part, by Paul Krugman

For a second stimulus, by Robert Kuttner

$9 trillion in deficit? Maybe not, by Floyd Norris

America may need to find another financier, by Floyd Norris

Wall Street pay didn’t cause this crisis, by Floyd Norris

America’s exhausted paradigm, by Thomas Palley

Time to put sand in the wheels of the market, by Avinash Persaud

Your federal budget, in pictures, by Catherine Rampell

Why we need to regulate the banks sooner, not later, by Kenneth Rogoff

Is the stimulus working?, by Christina Romer

An international comparison of small business employment, by John Schmitt and Nathan Lane

An echo chamber of boom and bust, by Robert Shiller

A Tobin tax?, by Gillian Tett

Are macroeconomic models useful?, by Mark Thoma

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Five things we can do to reduce poverty, by Scott Allard

Why the Obama administration will struggle to reduce poverty, by Scott Allard

Special report on poverty, The American Prospect

Regulate financial pay to reduce risk-taking, by Lucian Bebchuk

Getting smart on crime, by Charles Blow

What the right really thinks about inequality, by Jonathan Chait

For the unemployed, a day stacks up differently, by Amanda Cox, Shaun Carter, Kevin Quealy, and Amy Schoenfeld

Did welfare reform work for everyone? A look at young single mothers, by Mary Daly and Joyce Kwok (via Mark Thoma)

Prolonged aid to unemployed is running out, by Erik Eckholm

The distant mirror, by Timothy Egan

International trade, offshoring, and US wages, by Ann Harrison

The two-track economy emerging from the recession, by Simon Johnson

Rewarding bad actors, by Paul Krugman

Rise of the super-rich hits a wall, by David Leonhardt and Geraldine Fabrikant

Race and diversity in the age of Obama, by Orlando Patterson

Striking it richer: the evolution of top incomes in the United States, by Emmanuel Saez

Curb executive pay — the right way, by Paul Weinstein Jr.

Tribute to an effective public servant, by Matthew Yglesias

G.D.P. R.I.P., by Eric Zencey

Taxes

Why we won’t eliminate the deficit with corporate tax revenues, by Rosanne Altshuler

Obama renews vow of no middle-class tax increase, by Peter Baker

Obama’s pledge to tax only the rich can’t pay for everything, analysts say, by Jackie Calmes

Why Obama will have to raise taxes, by Clive Crook

How we won’t eliminate the deficit, by Bob Williams

The need for higher taxes, by Matthew Yglesias

Education

Long-term effects of investments in universal early education, by Elizabeth Cascio

Dangling money, Obama pushes states to shift on education, by Sam Dillon

At community college, a focus on jobs, by Steven Greenhouse

Housing

Less house for your money, Gene Expression

Globalization

World trade, The Economist

U.S. politics

The GOP’s misplaced rage, by Bruce Bartlett

Bipartisanship redux, by Nicholas Beaudrot

The great gradualist, by David Brooks

Another such victory and we are undone, by Brad DeLong

Town halls by invitation, by James Fishkin

Rich people are more likely to be Republican but not more likely to be conservative, by Andrew Gelman

The divergence of the intellectual upper class, by Andrew Gelman

Stories and stats: the truth about Obama’s victory wasn’t in the papers, by Andrew Gelman and John Sides

The rise of the 60-vote Senate, by Greg Koger

All the president’s zombies, by Paul Krugman

Missing Richard Nixon, by Paul Krugman

The public option as a signal, by Paul Krugman

Did the founders intend for small states to wield outsize power in the Senate?, by Alex MacGillis

Does the stock market affect presidential approval ratings?, by Catherine Rampell

Left without labor, by Mark Schmitt

The defeat of the Clinton health care plan and the 1994 elections, by John Sides

The history of the reconciliation process, by Matthew Yglesias

Abroad

Germany: an SPD-Left alliance?, by Bertrand Benoit

Ireland’s economic crisis, by John Murray Brown

Iran: the tragedy and the future, by Roger Cohen

Is it America or Europe which is overrated?, by Tyler Cowen

Japan’s fiscal frailty, by Mure Dickie

Can Germany wean itself from export dependence?, The Economist

Think Parisians are rude? It’s all a big misunderstanding, by Pauline Harris and Simon Kuper

Rape of the Congo, by Adam Hochschild

Saving the world’s women, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

Devolution in Spain, by Victor Mallet

Japan’s opposition wins a landslide, New York Times

New restrictions on French bankers’ bonuses, New York Times

Miscellaneous

G.I. Jane breaks the combat barrier, by Lizette Alvarez

American Psychological Association rejects gay “therapy”, Associated Press

Observational detectives, by Ian Ayres

Jerry Cohen: a personal appreciation, by Chris Bertram

U.S. population distribution by age, 1950 to 2050, Calculated Risk

Religion is good for you, by Chris Dillow

Do people still have fewer children as they get richer?, The Economist

Facebook exodus, by Virginia Heffernan

For today’s graduate, just one word: statistics, by Steve Lohr

Breakfast can wait; the day’s first stop is online, by Brad Stone

Hawaii: happily a state, forever an island, by Paul Theroux

How to publish a scientific comment in 1 2 3 easy steps, by Rick Trebino

Anti-public intellectuals, or public anti-intellectuals?, by Justin Wolfers

Small thinking on health care by those who complain of small thinking on health care, by Dean Baker

Good medicine: why not for everyone?, by Dean Baker

Give up a benefit, gain jobs, by Len Burman

House health bill’s high-income surcharge: a reasonable approach, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Does the House bill deal with costs?, by Jonathan Cohn

Obama’s sop to health care ‘fraidy cats, by Jonathan Cohn

The deal with the House blue dogs, by Jonathan Cohn

Why health care reform will pass, by Jonathan Cohn

What is a reasonable compromise on health care reform?, by Peter Dreier

Reforming American health care, The Economist

What McKinsey could teach Obama, by William Galston

Is public opinion re health reform more favorable now than in 1994?, by Andrew Gelman

Paying for health care reform by taxing the rich, by Howard Gleckman

Health care for the blue dogs, by Jacob Hacker

What America will look like without the public option, by Jacob Hacker and Rahul Rajkumar

Hospital shows a way to save: doctors get salaries, not fees, by Gardiner Harris

A doctor by choice, a businessman by necessity, by Sandeep Jauhar

Administrative costs in health care: a primer, by Ezra Klein

All eyes on Reid, by Ezra Klein

A smart (sort of) critique of the public plan, by Ezra Klein

Cost control in France, by Ezra Klein

Health care wonkery live chat, by Ezra Klein

Is health care reform becoming a prisoner’s dilemma?, by Ezra Klein

The five most important pieces of health care reform that aren’t the public plan, by Ezra Klein

The most important part of health care reform: the exchange, by Ezra Klein

The political economy of cost controls, by Ezra Klein

What happened to the moral case for health care reform?, by Ezra Klein

Why worry about obesity?, by Ezra Klein

HELP is on the way, by Paul Krugman

The blue dogs’ incoherence, by Paul Krugman

Why markets can’t cure healthcare, by Paul Krugman

Challenge to health bill: selling reform, by David Leonhardt

Forget who pays; it’s who sets the cost, by David Leonhardt

Health care reform and the unpopular t-word, by David Leonhardt

In health reform, cancer offers an acid test, by David Leonhardt

The good, and the bad, of heart care, by David Leonhardt

Compensating physicians, by Maggie Mahar

Should generous health insurance benefits be taxed?, by Maggie Mahar

America’s healthcare should no longer be tied to jobs, by Matt Miller

Costs and benefits, New York Times

Defying slump, 13 states insure more children, New York Times

Health care reform and you, New York Times

Insured … and broke, by Andrea Orr

House Democrats end impasse on health bill, by Robert Pear and David Herszenhorn

Reach of subsidies is critical issue for health reform, by Robert Pear

Time for the blue dogs to show their true colors, by Steven Pearlstein

How much do doctors in other countries make?, by Catherine Rampell

Tax the wealthy to keep everyone healthy, by Robert Reich

The future of universal health care, as of now, by Robert Reich

A “common sense” American health reform plan, by Uwe Reinhardt

A German import that could benefit U.S. health care, by Uwe Reinhardt

What is a “just” physician’s income?, by Uwe Reinhardt

Why we must ration health care, by Peter Singer

Robust health care reform is the moment of truth for Obama and the Democrats, by Theda Skocpol

Perils of the public plan, by Paul Starr

Equity and efficiency in health care markets, by Mark Thoma

Health care in comparative perspective, by Harold Wilensky

The most important part of health care reform: new regulations on insurers, by Matthew Yglesias

Uninsurance at 300-400% of the poverty line, by Matthew Yglesias

U.S. economy

The timing of the stimulus’ impact, by Dean Baker

Fasten your seatbelts for the jobless recovery, by Brad DeLong

Four ways out, by Brad DeLong

Ten myths about subprime mortgages, by Yuliya Demyanyk (via Mark Thoma)

Can governments increase growth?, by Chris Dillow

Master your labor market statistics, so they don’t master you, by Jeffrey Frankel

That ’30s show, by Paul Krugman

The stimulus trap, by Paul Krugman

The lessons of 1979-82, by Paul Krugman

Obama administration’s economic forecasts were too optimistic, by David Leonhardt

Index of leading indicators is signaling the recession’s end, by Floyd Norris

Changing social ethos is the key, by John Roemer

Spring is here, but contain your excitement, by Joseph Stiglitz

Obama’s strategy to reverse manufacturing’s fall, by Louis Uchitelle

The cautious approach to fixing banks will not work, by Martin Wolf

Reform of regulation has to start by altering incentives, by Martin Wolf

The case for more fiscal stimulus, by Justin Wolfers

The case for ever-bigger government, by Matthew Yglesias

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Back to the good times on Wall Street, by Lucian Bebchuk and Alma Cohen

Combating poverty by building assets, by Ray Boshara

Social protection for the economic crisis, by Gary Burtless

Intergenerational social mobility, by Orsetta Causa and Asa Johansson

Flexicurity, by Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel

Inequality and consistency, by Tyler Cohen

Education and equal opportunity, by Brad DeLong

Jobless checks for millions delayed as states struggle, by Jason DeParle

Safety net is fraying for the very poor, by Erik Eckholm

A homespun safety net, by Barbara Ehrenreich

Where unemployment is worse than expected, by Richard Florida

Low-wage schedules and the child care struggle, by Lisa Guernsey

Learning from Canada’s response to winner-take-all inequality, by Jacob Hacker

Mobility without equality?, by Jonathan Hopkin

Obfuscating inequality, by James Kwak

Part-time workers mask unemployment woes, by David Leonhardt

The new joblessness, by Roger Lowenstein

Shorter hours for less pay instead of layoffs, by Richard Milne, Brian Groom, and Jonathan Birdsall

In the unemployment line, and stuck there, by Floyd Norris

The downside of America’s flexible labour market is being exposed, by Sarah O’Connor

Preparing today’s workers for tomorrow’s jobs, by Catherine Rampell

Who is affected by a higher minimum wage?, by Catherine Rampell

Balancing financial invention and consumer protection, by Robert Shiller

The road to gender parity in the workplace, by Pamela Stone

The credit crisis and working America, special report in The American Prospect

Three myths about the Consumer Financial Product Agency, by Elizabeth Warren

Thinking clearly about economic inequality, by Will Wilkinson

Taxes

More taxes needed, Bruce Bartlett interview with Ezra Klein

Fattening the beast, by Fred Hiatt

Club Wagner, by David Leonhardt

Taxing the (very) rich, by David Leonhardt

The regressive tax that does the work, by Casey Mulligan

Environment

Just do it, by Thomas Friedman

Temperature trends, by Paul Krugman

Housing

Homeownership’s downsides, by Richard Florida

Education

Testing testing, by Dana Goldstein

Unions

Democrats drop key part of bill to assist unions, by Steven Greenhouse

U.S. politics

The Obama method, by Jonathan Chait

“Independent” voters are generally not, by Tom Jacobs

The high cost of failure, by Ezra Klein

The filibuster and democracy, by Ezra Klein

This is not 1932, and Obama is not FDR, by Megan McArdle

Everything you knew about congressional earmarks is wrong, by Lee Sigelman

America’s progressive metros, by Ruy Teixeira

The coming end of the culture wars, by Ruy Teixeira

Class and Sarah Palin, by Matthew Yglesias

Overblown overreach, by Matthew Yglesias

Abroad

Grading Obama’s Africa speech, by Chris Blattman

Let the usurpers writhe (Iran), by Roger Cohen

Why I love Sweden, by Tyler Cohen

Europe’s households build finances on firmer foundations, by Chris Giles

Not made in Japan, Financial Times

Turkey’s EU bid requires patience, by Benjamin Katcher

The Nordic model, by Richard Milne and Andrew Ward

Mercantilism reconsidered, by Dani Rodrik

Miscellaneous

Advice on writing research articles, by Andrew Gelman

The invisible hand, trumped by Darwin, by Robert H. Frank

Maker’s schedule, manager’s schedule, by Paul Graham (via Stephen Dubner)

Obama, Gates, and the American black man, by Glenn Loury

Same-sex marriage and constitutional law, by Martha Nussbaum

The Hobbesian world of Democrats, by Lee Sigelman

Why are southerners so fat?, Time (via Tyler Cohen)

Obama and GM: the best outcome in an awful situation, by Dean Baker

What is needed for a lasting recovery, by Olivier Blanchard

Why inflation isn’t the danger, by Alan Blinder

What socialism looks like, by Conor Clarke

Fiscal policy in the second half of 2009, by Brad DeLong

The lessons of 1937, by Brad DeLong

Government v. market in America, The Economist

Labor lost, and found, by Hannah Fairfield

OECD data hint at recovery in leading nations, Financial Times

The defanging of Obama’s regulation plan, by Simon Johnson

Why we need another stimulus, by John Judis

A thought about macroeconomics, by Paul Krugman

Hanging tough with Keynes, by Paul Krugman

Stay the course, by Paul Krugman

The stagflation myth, by Paul Krugman

Betting the Fed, by Robert Kuttner

The anti-macroeconomics roar grows louder, by Steven Levitt

The economy is still at the brink, by Sandy Lewis and William Cohen

Democratize the boards, by Roger Lowenstein

A lost decade for jobs, by Michael Mandel (via Mark Thoma)

When missing info is factored in, the U.S. economy over the past decade looks worse than we thought, by Michael Mandel

Housing bubble fueled consumer spending, by Atif Mian and Amir Sufi

Comparing this recession to earlier ones, by Catherine Rampbell

General Motors holds up a mirror to America, by Robert Reich

The three essentials of financial reform, by Robert Reich

The lessons of 1937, by Christina Romer

How today’s global recession tracks the Great Depression, by Martin Wolf

Rising interest rates prove policy works, by Martin Wolf

What caused the budget deficit?, by Matthew Yglesias

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

A family-leave safety net, by Heather Boushey

A progressive program for family leave insurance, by Heather Boushey

Changes in living standards in the past 150 years, by Brad DeLong

Attacking the corporate gravy train, The Economist

The recession and pay, The Economist

Incentive accounts: a solution to executive compensation, by Alex Edmans and Xavier Gabaix

Too poor to make the news, by Barbara Ehrenreich

“Inclusionist” links, by Shawn Fremstad

Education, technology, and inequality, by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

Yes, GDP is a flawed measure of welfare; so what?, by Stephen Gordon

To prevent layoffs, state governments chip in as companies cut hours, by Steven Greenhouse

Executive pay in Europe, by Kate Burgess and Richard Milne

Cutting salaries instead of jobs, BusinessWeek

Outside the 9-to-5, by Janet Gornick, Harriet Press, and Caroline Batzdorf

Wealth-care reform, by Ezra Klein

The pay at the top, New York Times

Geithner’s plan to limit executive compensation falls short, by Joe Nocera

Time for a comprehensive new poverty measure, by John Quinterno (via Shawn Fremstad)

Many states are expanding unemployment benefits, by Catherine Rampbell

Another perspective on the human development index, by Francisco Rodriguez

Health care

Obama’s team works Congress from the inside, by Matt Bai

Limiting the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored insurance can help pay for health reform, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Geography and the keys to health care reform, by Amitabh Chandra

The public option is important; but how important?, by Jonathan Cohn

Uninsured by age, by the Council of Economic Advisors (via Matthew Yglesias)

Something’s got to give in Medicare spending, by Tyler Cowen

Why U.S. health care policy is especially egalitarian, by Tyler Cowen

Health care priorities series, Economix

Interview, Atul Gawande

Does the White House have a secret strategy for health reform?, by Ezra Klein

Health insurance exchanges: the most important, undernoticed part of health reform, by Ezra Klein

House proposes a value-added tax for health care, by Ezra Klein

The many flavors of the public plan, by Ezra Klein

The prescription from Obama’s own doctor, by Nicholas Kristof

Don’t trust the insurance industry, by Paul Krugman

Health care rationing rhetoric overlooks reality, by David Leonhardt

The pitfalls of the public option, by Greg Mankiw

Are medical bankruptcies increasing?, by Megan McArdle

Will Republicans flip health care the byrd?, by Nolan McCarty

Is the state coverage model instructive, New York Times

Obama to forge a greater role on health care, New York Times

The future of Medicaid, by Harold Pollack (via Ezra Klein)

How pharma and insurance intend to kill the public option, by Robert Reich

Why the critics of a public option for health care are wrong, by Robert Reich

Is health care reform worth $1.6 trillion?, by Uwe Reinhardt

The health reform we need and are not getting, by Arnold Relman

Polarization and health care reform, by John Sides

Is more care better care?, by Jonathan Skinner

Perils of the public plan, by Paul Starr

A public plan, by Mark Thoma

Health bills comparison table, by Igor Volsky (via Matthew Yglesias)

Environment

What Waxman-Markey will do to the economy, by Conor Clarke

Carbon offsets, by Robert H. Frank

Taxes

VAT time?, by Bruce Bartlett

Everybody gets a tax cut, by Howard Gleckman

The estate tax and the economy, by Ben Harris

The next tax revolt, by Matthew Yglesias

Education

Children are exceptions to the country’s work ethic, by Lexington

New plan ties reduced college loan payments to income, New York Times

Cities

The most liveable cities, by Tyler Brule

Remaking Paris, by Nicolai Ouroussoff

Bulldozing America’s shrinking cities, by Edward Glaeser

Housing

Foreclosure goes upscale, BusinessWeek

Promised help is elusive for some homeowners, by Peter Goodman

Why homeowners walk away, by Sudeep Reddy

Why home prices may keep falling, by Robert Shiller

Transportation

Getting up to speed: high-speed rail in California, by Jon Gertner

Globalization

How many jobs are onshorable?, by Richard Baldwin

Decouple immigration and the welfare state, by Tito Boeri

Immigration and the left, by Chris Dillow

U.S. politics

The median voter theorem as a weak force in politics, by Andrew Gelman

How bipartisan do you want?, by Matthew Yglesias

Abroad

The devil is in the digits (Iran), by Bernd Beber and Alexandra Scacco

The US army’s development delusions, by William Easterly

Elections to the European parliament, The Economist

In assuming presidency, Sweden sees role as EU model, Financial Times

Dirigisme de rigueur (France), by Peggy Hollinger

A different Iranian revolution, by Shane M.

Nearly half on Norway’s boards of directors are women, by Richard Milne

Economic crisis pits Europe against its parts, New York Times

Iraq marks withdrawal of U.S. troops from cities, New York Times

Iran reveals us, by George Packer

The basic income grant experiment in Namibia, by Ingrid Robeyns

Does growth have a future?, by Michael Spence

A struggle for the legacy of the Iranian revolution, by Robert Worth

Fatal wound inflicted on Iranian regime’s ideology, by Fareed Zakaria (via Jeff Weintraub)

Miscellaneous

Weak anti-gay-marriage arguments, by Jonathan Chait

The same-sex future, by David Cole

Gay marriage: a tipping point?, by Andrew Gelman

The author as performer, by James Harkin

Why would Real Madrid pay $130 million to get Cristiano Ronaldo?, by Simon Kuper

Political shifts on gay rights lag behind culture, by Adam Nagourney

For the world’s best soccer players, Italy’s lure fades, New York Times

What’s a liberal justice now?, by Jeffrey Rosen

Are Republicans more likely to have affairs and get divorced?, by John Sides

Crazy compensation and the crisis, by Alan Blinder

After the stimulus: now what?, by Fred Block

The crisis and how to deal with it, Bill Bradley, Niall Ferguson, Paul Krugman, Jeff Madrick, Nouriel Roubini, George Soros, and Robin Wells

Inflation is bad, but deflation is worse, The Economist

There is no single big remedy for the banks’ flaws, The Economist

Ignore your investors, by Justin Fox

The failure of the economy and the economists, by Benjamin Friedman

Falling wage syndrome, by Paul Krugman

Stressing the positive, by Paul Krugman

The big inflation scare, by Paul Krugman

Accountability?, by Greg Mankiw

Income inequality and speculative investment by the rich and poor led to the financial meltdown, by Branko Milanovic

Sounding the alarm: update on the economic downturn, by Lawrence Mishel

Obama proposes a first overhaul of finance rules, New York Times

Hedge fund manager’s farewell, by Joe Nocera

Nation ready to be lied to about the economy again, The Onion (via Mark Thoma)

How useful were recent financial innovations?, by Adam Posen and Marc Hinterschweiger (via Mark Thoma)

Insolvent banks should feel market discipline, by Matthew Richardson and Nouriel Roubini

Why did the bankers behave so badly?, by Anne Sibert

America’s governance revolution must not be ducked, by Anne Simpson

Are we turning Japanese?, by James Suroweicki

Monsters, Inc., by James Suroweicki

Geithner could do worse than emulate Japan, by Peter Tasker

US belatedly learns to listen to the lesson from Japan, by Gillian Tett

Regulating derivatives, by Gillian Tett and Aline van Duyn

Central banks must target more than inflation, by Martin Wolf

Obama’s conservatism may not prove good enough, by Martin Wolf

Why we need to curb finance, by Martin Wolf

On risk-taking, by Matthew Yglesias

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

The new science of measuring happiness, by Drake Bennett

Paid sick days benefit workers and employers, by Heather Boushey

Unemployed, and staying that way, by Heather Boushey

Poor? Pay up, by DeNeen Brown

Geithner’s plan to overhaul executive pay, BusinessWeek

For recession victims, patchwork state aid, by Jason DeParle

Mysteries of life, by Henry Farrell

The real reason CEO compensation got out of hand, by Ray Fisman

Debunking the so-called human development index of U.S. states (and follow-up), by Andrew Gelman

Healthy credit, by David Gibson, Carla Hall, and Sylvia Harris

Bill would guarantee up to 7 paid sick days, by Steven Greenhouse

Can we make financial products as safe as toasters?, by Ezra Klein

Has feminism been bad for women?, by Ezra Klein

Progress, or lack thereof, around the country, by Kristen Lewis and Sarah Burd-Sharps

Consumers are dealt a new hand in credit cards, by Ron Lieber

Financial careers come at a cost for families, by David Leonhardt

Debt: a writer’s life, by Megan McArdle

Sink and swim, by Megan McArdle

Can income transfers to poor families help children?, by Kevin Milligan and Mark Stabile

Alternative labor market policies to increase economic self-sufficiency, by David Neumark

After the great recession, Barack Obama interview with David Leonhardt

Broadband around the world, by Catherine Rampbell

Social spending and inequality, by Catherine Rampbell

Obama, the enemy of economic inequality, by Robert Reich

U.S. unemployment now as high as Europe, by John Schmitt, Hye Jin Rho, and Shawn Fremstad

What makes us happy?, by Joshua Wolf Shenk

The paradox of declining female happiness, by Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

Why do investment banks pay exorbitant bonuses?, by John Thanassoulis

Digital exclusion and social disadvantage go hand in hand, by Jessica Twentyman

U.S. workers’ wages stagnate as firms rush to slash costs, Washington Post

What does the Human Development Index measure?, by Justin Wolfers (and comments here and here)

The lost opportunity, by Matthew Yglesias

Health care

The art of the possible, by Henry Aaron

Numbers racket, by Jonathan Cohn

Health system modernization will reduce the deficit, by David Cutler

The cost conundrum, by Atal Gawande

Can Chuck Schumer save the public plan?, by Ezra Klein

Health reform for beginners: the employer tax exclusion, by Ezra Klein

How the public hurts health care reform, by Ezra Klein

Is the health care industry on Obama’s side?, by Ezra Klein

The liberal critique of Wyden-Bennett, by Ezra Klein

Blue double cross, by Paul Krugman

Harry, Louise, and Barack, by Paul Krugman

The missing $90 billion, by David Leonhardt

Health costs are the real deficit threat, by Peter Orszag

The health care cave-in, by Robert Reich

The only sure way to fund universal health care, by Robert Reich

A taxonomy of health care systems, by Uwe Reinhardt

Is employer-based health insurance worth saving?, by Uwe Reinhardt

Should health benefits be taxed?, by Uwe Reinhardt

Environment

Cap and trade vs. carbon tax, by Kevin Drum

Cap and trade, with handouts and loopholes, The Economist

Empire of carbon, by Paul Krugman

The perfect, the good, the planet, by Paul Krugman

Can Obama change the climate?, by Bill McKibben

Obama to toughen rules on emissions and mileage, New York Times

Taxes

A blueprint for tax reform and health reform, by Len Burman

Obama’s plan to bring home more revenue from multinationals is more complex than meets the eye, BusinessWeek

Curbing offshore tax havens, by Mark Thoma

U.S. sales tax gets a fresh look, Washington Post

Education

The Harlem miracle, by David Brooks

Pay-for-performance programs for teachers in high-poverty schools, by Robin Chait and Raegen Miller

America’s classroom equality battle, by Clive Crook

Whose problem is poverty?, by Richard Rothstein (via Harry Brighouse)

Obama proposals would transform college aid, Washington Post (via Mark Thoma)

Unions

The intensification of employer opposition to organizing, by Kate Bronfenbrenner

Forming a union: the video, Center for American Progress (via Ezra Klein)

Globalization

Imports can be as useful to developing countries as exports are, The Economist

We should further open our market to exports from small, poor economies, by Kimberly Elliott

Obama’s trade policy, by Edward Luce

Where are the largest gains from trade liberalization?, by Dani Rodrik

A new American trade consensus, by Bruce Stokes

Immigration

A forum on immigration, by Joseph Carens and respondents

U.S. politics

Finding the next Kemp, by Bruce Bartlett

Liberaltarians?, by Bruce Bartlett

California: the ungovernable state, The Economist

Renewed questions about the durability of party identification, by Jim Gimpel

The changing tea leaves on partisan trends, by Jim Gimpel

Fundamentally different, by John Judis

“Foolish consistency”, by Mark Thoma

Abroad

Elections to the European parliament, by Tony Barber

Europe’s line must take in Turkish sand, by Tony Barber

In Germany, benefits including paid time off are limiting the pain for citizens and politicians, by Bertrand Benoit

Re-regulation of labor markets is not the answer, by Guiseppe Bertola

Australia introduces paid parental leave, Brisbane Times (via Tina Fetner)

The French way of doing things looks pretty good, The Economist

Has the IMF changed?, The Economist

India’s election, The Economist

Outsourcing’s third wave: buying farmland abroad, The Economist

Universities in Europe, The Economist

Nonlethal promotion of democracy, by Amitai Etzioni

Why has globalization led to bigger cities?, by Edward Glaeser

Bright continent, by Nicholas Kristof

Have we already lost Iran?, by Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

India, suddenly starved for investment, New York Times

Thriving Norway provides an economics lesson, New York Times

How the financial crisis has killed the governance reform agenda, by Dani Rodrik

Going Dutch: how I learned to love the European welfare state, by Russell Shorto

Japan’s work compact put to the test, by Jonathan Soble

In Japan, secure jobs have a cost, by Hiroko Tabuchi

India’s national renewal benefits everyone, by Ashutosh Varshney

Miscellaneous

How did Washington miss the generational shift toward gay marriage?, by Matt Bai

The case for an emotional justice, by David Brooks

The future of the New York Times, by David Carr

The real lab rats (fraud in science), by Clive Cookson

Gay marriage, The Economist

What do social scientists and journalists want?, by Henry Farrell

American epidemics: a brief history, by Howard Markel and Sam Potts

Dazzling Barcelona wins with style, New York Times

Obesity and the fastness of food, by Catherine Rampbell

Busting the opt-out mom myth, Real Time Economics

Has the public become more opposed to abortion?, by John Sides

Free-market sports, by Matthew Yglesias

How to help the economy, and families, by Heather Boushey

Kick-starting employment, by Brad DeLong

Why we need not fear that a bigger stimulus will be counterproductive, by Brad DeLong

The last temptation of risk, by Barry Eichengreen (via Mark Thoma)

A tale of two depressions, by Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O’Rourke

What’s keeping Tim Geithner from being bolder?, by Justin Fox

The quiet coup, by Simon Johnson

Why little action on banking can do great harm, by Simon Johnson and Peter Boone

Green shoots and glimmers, by Paul Krugman

Making banking boring, by Paul Krugman

Reconsidering a miracle, by Paul Krugman

Stimulus thinking, and nuance, by David Leonhardt

Was the New Deal a bust?, by Jeff Madrick

Recession, far from over, already setting records, by Floyd Norris

More cities seeing at least 15% unemployment, Real Time Economics

A report card on Obamanomics, approaching 100 days, by Robert Reich

How to understand the disaster, by Robert Solow

Is America the new Russia?, by Martin Wolf

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Preferences for redistribution, by Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano

Conservatives need new models, by Phillip Blond

More or less equal?, The Economist

Earning well, feeling otherwise, by Gary Fields

Food stamp use soars in US, Financial Times

The red ink of a greyer future, Financial Times

The asset-bubble theory of income inequality, by Justin Fox

Post-consumer prosperity, by Robert H. Frank

What we can live without, Free Exchange

A strong safety net encourages healthy risk-taking, by Jacob Hacker

Take off, by Jacob Hacker and Elizabeth Jacobs

A green jobs primer, by Bracken Hendricks, Andrew Light, and Benjamin Goldstein

The jobs solution, by Leo Hindery and Donald Riegle

Robert Frank on why we should make Wall Street poorer, via Ezra Klein

Semi-regular Social Security corrective, by Ezra Klein

Money for nothing, by Paul Krugman

Ten radical remedies America needs, by Robert Kuttner

64 ways to rebuild NYC’s middle class, by Jennifer Lee

Do smart parents raise smart kids?, by Andrew Leigh

Fair pay, by Megan McArdle

After off year, Wall Street pay is bouncing back, New York Times

Executive pay makes a u-turn, New York Times

States slashing social programs for the vulnerable, New York Times

The state of opportunity in America, Opportunity Agenda (via Inclusionist)

An agenda for social democracy, by John Quiggin

What to do about government spending and universal health care, by Robert Reich

Obama’s nudge-ocracy plan for reducing inequality, by Noam Scheiber

Institutions, partisanship, and inequality in the long run, by Kenneth Scheve and David Stasavage

Economic growth and security, by Mark Thoma

Household wealth in a freefall, by Christian Weller and Jessica Lynch

How to start to get trillions in lost wealth back, by Christian Weller

College attainment and family income, by Matthew Yglesias

Health care

Reconciliation: this changes everything, by Jonathan Cohn

Why not the HAA?, by William Galston

Why a public insurance plan is essential for health reform, by Alexander Hertel

Should employer-based health care be tax-deductible?, by Ezra Klein

The myth of waiting lines, by Ezra Klein

This is the easy part, by Ezra Klein

An open hand, but a very firm handshake, by Maggie Mahar

Beyond health care, by Maggie Mahar

Democrats agree on a health plan; now comes the hard part, New York Times

Obama tactics shield health care from a filibuster, New York Times

Health reform without a public plan: the German model, by Uwe Reinhardt

Health care reform: dollars and sense, by Pat S.

Taxes

Tax tea party fantasy, by Bruce Bartlett

The fiscal hole that must be filled, by Clive Crook

Tax evasion, The Economist

The 400 richest Americans and their terrible tax burden, by Justin Fox

Before tea, thank your lucky stars, by Robert H. Frank

The estate tax, by Howard Gleckman

Who pays taxes? Who should?, by Howard Gleckman

Why I hate filing my taxes, by Howard Gleckman

Why the GST is a good idea, by Stephen Gordon

Senate to uber-rich: help is on the way, by Bob Greenstein (via Mark Thoma)

When ignorance isn’t bliss, by Andrew Leigh

Richly undeserved, by David Leonhardt

Tax fantasies of the right and left, by Steven Pearlstein

How much Americans actually pay in taxes, by Catherine Rampbell

Just how progressive is the tax system?, by Catherine Rampbell

More on income levels and tax rates, by Catherine Rampbell

Taking action against tax havens, Real Time Economics

Warning: tax hikes ahead, eventually, Real Time Economics

Paying for what government should do, by Jeffrey Sachs

Problems with the value-added tax in Europe, by Mark Thoma

In the debate over tax policy, the power of luck shouldn’t be overlooked, by Hal Varian (via Mark Thoma)

America’s income tax burden near historic low, Washington Post

Emmanuel Saez on taxes and elasticity, by Matthew Yglesias

Talking about taxes, by Matthew Yglesias

Education

Can we make America smarter?, by Andrew Hacker

The economic impact of the achievement gap in America’s schools, McKinsey & Co. (via Matthew Yglesias)

High-quality pre-K to 3rd: how much does it cost?, by Sara Mead

End the university as we know it, by Mark Taylor

Cities

A tale of two exurbs, by Ben Adler

Detroit story of the day, by Ryan Avent

Future cities, by Ryan Avent

The high cost of short buildings, by Matthew Yglesias

Globalization

Immigration is a necessary component of a realistic utopia, by Jonathan Dingel

As global demand contracts, trade is slumping and protectionism rising, The Economist

Globalization promotes peace, by Jong-Wha Lee and Ju Hyun Pyun

Immigration for shared prosperity, by Ray Marshall

The implosion in cross-border lending, by John Plender

Did globalization produce an increase in economic growth?, by Dani Rodrik

Unions

A deal to organise, Financial Times

Card check is dead, by Thomas Frank

Majority receptive to law making unionizing easier, Gallup

U.S. politics

Why Twitter is the last thing D.C. needs, by Matt Bai

Why the Democrats can’t govern, by Jonathan Chait

Can Obama be a majority of one?, by Robert Dallek

Nudge-ocracy: Barack Obama’s new theory of the state, by Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber

Red and blue economies?, by Andrew Gelman

New research refutes the myth that America is a “center right” nation, by John Halpin and Ruy Teixeira

Polarization and history, by Ed Kilgore

The consolations of polarization, by Ezra Klein

The Senate is broken, by Ezra Klein

Three flavors of delicious reconciliation, by Ezra Klein

How Obama can succeed in the next 100 days and beyond, by Robert Reich

Ideas and interests, by Dani Rodrik

What would a “bipartisan” Obama look like?, by Nate Silver

No country for close calls, by Nate Silver and Andrew Gelman

New progressive America, by Ruy Teixeira

Why is the GOP throwing Senate races?, by Matthew Yglesias

Abroad

The impact of the global financial crisis on the world’s poorest, by Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion

Data data everywhere, by Jim Cust

The horrors of Nordic socialism exposed, The Daily Show (via Matthew Yglesias)

Chronically hungry passes 1 billion, Financial Times

Getting women into paid employment, by Duncan Green

A fragile flexibility (U.K.), by Brian Groom

Aided by safety nets, Europe resists stimulus push, New York Times

British plan to raise taxes, New York Times

Japan pays foreign workers to go home, New York Times

China shows the world how to get through a crisis, by Jim O’Neill

Miscellaneous

Paying a price for loving red meat, by Jane Brody

Must you bet your views?, by Tyler Cowen

Why tables are really much better than graphs (really!), by Andrew Gelman

Yes, but why do they get married later?, by Ezra Klein

Far too many Americans are behind bars, by Lexington

Sweden becomes fifth country to legalize same-sex marriage, New York Times

The best female soccer player in the world, by Michael Sokolove

Earning a living as a creative genius, by Bernard Wasow

Historical variation in age at first marriage, by Matthew Yglesias

Do not let the ‘cure’ destroy capitalism, by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy

Nationalize? Not so fast, by Alan Blinder

Obama is no socialist, by Alan Blinder

Message to regulators: bank fix needed quickly, by Tyler Cowen

The crisis, and the Geitner plan, explained, by Brad DeLong

Stimulus ostriches, by Brad DeLong

Real capitalists nationalize, by Kevin Drum

In knots over nationalization, The Economist

A second stimulus package will be needed, by Martin Feldstein

When ‘deficit’ isn’t a dirty word, by Robert H. Frank

No return to normal, by James Galbraith (via Mark Thoma)

Job losses hint at vast remaking of U.S. economy, by Peter Goodman and Jack Healy

The misunderstood John Maynard Keynes, by John Judis

Behind the curve, by Paul Krugman

Financial policy despair, by Paul Krugman

Japan reconsidered, by Paul Krugman

Revenge of the glut, by Paul Krugman

The big dither, by Paul Krugman

Will the Geithner plan work?, Paul Krugman, Simon Johnson, Brad DeLong, and Mark Thoma

The Swedish model, by Peter Thal Larsen and Chris Giles

The start of a crisis, through the lens of Avis, by David Leonhardt

What does the worst recession in a generation look like?, by David Leonhardt

Blame the economists, not economics, by Dani Rodrik

The history of banking crises indicates this one may be far from over, by Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart

US is ready for Swedish lesson on banks, by Gillian Tett

Successful bank rescue still far away, by Martin Wolf

The world of the past three decades has gone, by Martin Wolf

To nationalize or not?, by Martin Wolf

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Transforming the EITC to reduce poverty and inequality, by Gordon Berlin

Why is her paycheck smaller?, by Hannah Fairfield and Graham Roberts

The audacity of help, by Chrystia Freeland

The inequality conversation, by Ezra Klein

Now is the time for a less selfish capitalism, by Richard Layard

Savings accounts for all, by Ron Lieber

Capitalism beyond the crisis, by Amartya Sen

Why not arbitrary limits on executive pay?, by Matthew Yglesias

Taxes

Very few small business owners would face tax increases under the president’s budget, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Putting a bulls-eye on a tax loophole, by Andrew Ross Sorkin

History shows that the president’s tax plans are consistent with strong economic growth, by Laura Tyson (via Mark Thoma)

Obama’s revenue shortfall, by Matthew Yglesias

Top marginal tax rates over time, by Matthew Yglesias

Health care

Tax my health benefits, please, by Jonathan Cohn

The inside story of health care’s near-death experience, by Jonathan Cohn

Q and A on the public insurance option, by Jacob Hacker (via Ezra Klein)

A public insurance option primer, by Ezra Klein

A lesson on health care from Massachusetts, New York Times

The Dutch healthcare system, by Michael Steen and Nicholas Timmins

Housing

All boarded up, by Alex Kotlowitz

Foreclosing the crisis, by Edward Glaeser

Cities

Our fifty states matter a lot less than our 100 largest metro areas, by Bruce Katz, Mark Muro, and Jennifer Bradley

Immigration

A slippery place in the U.S. work force, by Julia Preston

Unions

In from the cold?, The Economist

U.S. politics

Ailing G.O.P. risks losing a generation, by Marjorie Connelly

The thirty days of Barack Obama, by Elizabeth Drew

Why Rush is wrong, by David Frum

Barack’s too-long wish list, by William Galston

How did the rich and the poor vote in 2008?, by Andrew Gelman

The state of American political ideology, by John Halpin and Karl Agne

Alternate route: bypassing the G.O.P., by John Harwood

“Socialism!” Boo, hiss, repeat, by Mark Leibovich

The trouble with state government, by Matthew Yglesias

Abroad

Some good news, by William Easterly

Ireland’s economy: the party is definitely over, The Economist

When jobs disappear, The Economist

A continent adrift, by Paul Krugman

The Nordic model of social democracy, by Karl Ove Moene

Making human rights real, by Amartya Sen

A plan B for global finance, by Dani Rodrik

Swedish government resisting calls for Saab rescue, by Matthew Yglesias

Miscellaneous

Internet companies’ business model, The Economist

Tax plan aims to level soccer’s playing field, Financial Times

What I wish I’d known about tenure, by Leslie Phinney (via Chris Blattman)

A walled city in Tuscany clings to its ancient menu, New York Times

How to keep your email inbox (nearly) empty, by Farhad Manjoo

The real lesson of the New Deal: deficits were too small, not too large, by Bruce Bartlett

There’s no stimulus free lunch, by Gary Becker and Kevin Murphy

(Nearly) nothing to fear but fear itself, by Olivier Blanchard

My economic wish list, by Alan Blinder

Flexibility is out; now we see rigidity’s virtues, by Paul de Grauwe

A guide for the perplexed on fiscal policy, by Brad DeLong

Depression economics: four options, by Brad DeLong

Second biggest bear market ever, by Brad DeLong

Stimulus and uncertainty, by Brad DeLong

Why we need a big fiscal boost program, by Brad DeLong

Go ahead and save; let the government spend, by Robert H. Frank

Tax cuts won’t solve our current economic woes, by Daniel Gross

Bailouts for bunglers, by Paul Krugman

Banking on the brink, by Paul Krugman

The big fix, by David Leonhardt

Time to steer a forceful course for stimulus, by David Leonhardt

Fumble to stumble, by Edward Luce and Krishna Guha

My preferred fiscal stimulus, by Greg Mankiw

Adding up the $787 billion tab, New York Times

Japan’s big-works stimulus is lesson, New York Times

Confusing American companies with American jobs, by Robert Reich

In Japan’s stagnant decade, cautionary tales for America, by Hiroko Tabuchi

Employ overwhelming force, by Martin Wolf

Japanese lessons, by Martin Wolf

What Obama should tell leaders of the group of 20, by Martin Wolf

Why Obama’s new TARP will fail to rescue the banks, by Martin Wolf

Obama on Sweden, by Matthew Yglesias

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Changes, up and down the ladder, by Edmund Andrews

The ‘w’ word, re-engaged, by Jason DeParle

CEO pay: don’t look to Japan for answers, by Kenji Hall

Why making the rich poorer can make the poor (effectively) richer, by Ezra Klein

Climate of change, by Paul Krugman

Recession and poverty, by James Kvaal and Ben Furnas

A bold plan sweeps away Reagan’s ideas, by David Leonhardt

Bailout needs some strings attached to limit pay, by Gretchen Morgenson

Refuted economic doctrines: trickle-down, by John Quiggin

Luxury or necessity?, by Catherine Rampbell

Finally a progressive budget, by Robert Reich

Four better ways of fixing the CEO pay debacle, by Eliot Spitzer

Creating new US jobs and closing the income gap, by Edward Wolff

Taxes

A grand bargain on taxes, by William Galston

Like having Medicare? Then taxes must rise, by David Leonhardt

Braced for a higher tax bill, some may dodge the bullet, by Ron Lieber and Tara Siegel Bernard

Stimulating the well-off, by Bob Williams

The case for more tax brackets, by Matthew Yglesias

Globalization

The integration of the world economy is in retreat on almost every front, The Economist

Protectionism and stimulus, by Paul Krugman

It’s no time for protectionism, by Greg Mankiw

Health care

Health care reform for dummies, by Jonathan Cohn

The new push for American health security, by Jacob Hacker

Health care reform in eight easy steps, by Ezra Klein

No lunch left behind, by Alice Waters and Katrina Heron

Education

Invest in early education, by Nancy Folbre

Our greatest national shame, by Nicholas Kristof

Recess is crucial too, by Tara Parker-Pope

Housing

Killing (or maiming) a sacred cow: home mortgage deductions, by Edward Glaeser

Cities

How the crash will reshape America, by Richard Florida

Green cities, brown suburbs, by Edward Glaeser

Transportation

Faster trains, maybe, but still behind others in the world, New York Times

Crime and punishment

Five myths about prison growth, by John Pfaff

Unions

Why we need stronger unions, and how to get them, by Robert Reich

Supporters of the Employee Free Choice Act

U.S. politics

Poof goes the purple dream, by Jonathan Alter

What Obama could learn from Reagan, by William Galston

Partisanship: good or bad?, by Andrew Gelman

Rich and poor still vote differently in red and blue states, by Andrew Gelman

History tells Obama to turn on the bipartisan charm, by Edward Luce

Why Republicans won’t support the stimulus, by Robert Reich

In praise of bipartisanship, by Michael Tomasky (via Ezra Klein)

Abroad

The other Iran, by Roger Cohen

Asia needs a new engine of growth, The Economist

In Japan, new jobless may lack safety net, by Martin Fackler

Social democrats and capitalism, by Henry Farrell

Canada banks prove envy of the world, Financial Times

China’s jobless, Financial Times

Roma bear brunt of Hungary’s downturn, Financial Times

Solitary shore (Iran), by Roula Khalaf and Najmeh Bozorgmehr

India’s economy is hurtling ahead, but for many people life is still precarious, by James Lamont

After the fiesta (Spain), by Victor Mallet

Job losses pose a threat to stability worldwide, New York Times

The global middle class, Pew Research Center

Is more effective international regulation the answer?, by Dani Rodrik

Crisis hits eastern Europe, by Stefan Wagstyl

Miscellaneous

A reconciliation on gay marriage, by David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch

Are blogs ruining economic debate?, by Henry Farrell

Greats put the super into superstition, by Simon Kuper

Student expectations as cause of grade disputes, New York Times

The vanishing liberal justice, New York Times

Improving scholarly journals, by Lee Sigelman

Goodbye to the age of newspapers, by Paul Starr

An about-face on gay troops, by Owen West

Don’t let crisis kill long-term growth, by Daron Acemoglu

Credit crunch?, by Dean Baker

Does stimulus stimulate?, by Bruce Bartlett

The fiscal stimulus: what will work?, by Bruce Bartlett

Obama plan is bold, but not bold enough, by Peter Boone and Simon Johnson

To save the banks we must stand up to the bankers, by Peter Boone and Simon Johnson

Six blunders en route to a crisis, by Alan Blinder

Learning from FDR’s mistakes, by Alan Brinkley

The confidence surplus, by David Brooks

What the U.S. can learn from Japan’s lost decade, BusinessWeek

What instead?, by Tyler Cowen

Four fixes for America’s fiscal fiasco, by Clive Crook

Stimulus skeptics, by Brad DeLong

Past crises inspire little confidence about the outcome of this one, The Economist

The case for fiscal stimulus, by Martin Feldstein (via Mark Thoma)

The evidence on tax cuts vs. spending is … confusing, by Justin Fox

It’s about credit markets, not just stimulus, by Howard Gleckman

Will the tax cuts help fix the economy?, by Howard Gleckman

The battle over whether fiscal policy or monetary policy will fix the economy faster, by Daniel Gross

Reviving America’s economy, by Kristin Guha

How economists analyze the stimulus, by Arnold Kling

Bad faith economics, by Paul Krugman

Economists, ideology, and stimulus, by Paul Krugman

How late is too late?, by Paul Krugman

Ideas for Obama, by Paul Krugman

The Obama gap, by Paul Krugman

Stimulus arithmetic, by Paul Krugman

Wall Street voodoo, by Paul Krugman

A stimulus plan with merit, and misses too, by David Leonhardt

The economy is bad, but 1982 was worse, by David Leonhardt

How we were ruined and what we can do, by Jeff Madrick

Stimulus skeptics, by Greg Mankiw

Dissecting the stimulus debate, by Megan McArdle

Stimulus plan: the need and the size, by Robert Reich

Has America lost its mojo?, by Kenneth Rogoff

The job impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment plan, by Christina Romer and Jared Bernstein

Tax cuts, by Mark Thoma

The stimulus: less or more?, by Mark Thoma

Nationalize like real capitalists, by Steve Waldman

Economy made few gains in Bush years, Washington Post

Why Obama’s plan is still inadequate and incomplete, by Martin Wolf

On the failure of macroeconomists, by Justin Wolfers

The Swedish model is the best hope for western banks, by Christopher Wood

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Demographics and fiscal sustainability: should we save more or work more?, by Torben Andersen

In a “bad” year, the good news of our times, by Radley Balko (via Tyler Cowen)

Number of homeless families climbing due to recession, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Unemployment insurance reforms should be part of economic recovery package, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

A safety net in need of repair, The Economist

Fear of falling (executive pay), Financial Times

Should Congress put a cap on executive pay?, by Robert H. Frank

Can businesses do well and do good?, by Ed Glaeser

The case for small-government egalitarianism, by Ed Glaeser

Target practice: lessons for poverty reduction, by Jodie Levin-Epsetin and Webb Lyons (via Inclusionist)

Without adequate public spending, a catastrophic recession for some, by Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz

A rich income in 2006 was $263 million, New York Times

Consumers never had it so good, by Catherine Rampbell

Stimulate the economy by mending our safety nets, by Robert Reich

A firm of one’s own, by Corey Rosen

The public supports a major effort to fight poverty, by Ruy Teixeira

An unhappy year, by Justin Wolfers

And fry it up in a pan, by Justin Wolfers

Is ignorance really bliss?, by Justin Wolfers

Taxes

A way to boost demand and reduce long-term budget problems, by Len Burman

Dubious tax math, by Justin Fox

The estate tax stays, by Daniel Hamermesh

A future consumption tax to fix today’s economy, by Alan Krueger

The case for bigger government, by Jeffrey Sachs

Health care

American health care since 1994, by Ben Furnas

Congress set to renew health care for children, New York Times

Education

Improving academic preparation for college, by Robin Chait and Andrea Venezia

Do better schools lead to more growth?, by Eric Hanushek and Ludger Woessman (via Shawn Fremstad)

How does early education and care in the U.S. stack up to other developed countries?, by Sara Mead

Cities, neighborhoods

What will save the suburbs?, by Allison Arieff

Cities Americans like, Pew Research Center

Unions

Bill easing unionizing is under heavy attack, by Steven Greenhouse

U.S. politics

FDR and the first 100 days, by Tony Badger

State-by-state vote swings are more uniform than they used to be, by Andrew Gelman

What is the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs?, by Ezra Klein

LBJ’s revenge: the 2008 election and the rise of the Great Society coalition, by Philip Klinkner and Thomas Schaller

More on those declining turnout rates, by John Sides

Abroad

A two-state solution is the only way, by Tobias Buck and Roula Khalaf

The dominion of the dead (Gaza), by Roger Cohen

Wages in Germany, by Stefan Collignon

Global migration and the downturn, The Economist

The hundred years’ war, The Economist

European emerging markets suffer most, Financial Times

European pessimism over political opportunities for ethnic minorities overlooks a nascent trend, Financial Times

Human cost rises as recession deepens, Financial Times

Japanese economy worsening rapidly, Financial Times

Ireland: things fall apart, Financial Times

Israel’s goals in Gaza?, by Thomas Friedman

The Gaza boomerang, by Nicholas Kristof

Where sweatshops are a dream, by Nicholas Kristof

Fighting to preserve a myth (Gaza), by Gideon Lichfield

Advice to Obama’s Africa team: don’t change too much, by Todd Moss

The other inauguration to be celebrated (Ghana), by Todd Moss

The Irish miracle fizzes, by Landon Thomas Jr.

What makes Ahmadinejad smile?, by Fareed Zakaria

Miscellaneous

Trying anything and everything for autism, by Jane Brody

End times, by Michael Hirschorn

How to help your child learn to read, by Alan Kazdin and Carlo Rotella

Living apart for the paycheck, New York Times

The myth of rampant teenage promiscuity, by Tara Parker-Pope

Your nest is empty? Enjoy each other, by Tara Parker-Pope

Can economists be trusted?, by Uwe Reinhardt

Doing the math to find the good jobs, Wall Street Journal

Paper wealth and the economic crisis, by Dean Baker

How to give banks confidence to lend to businesses, by Lucian Bebchuk and Itay Goldstein

Japanese fiscal policy in the 1990s, by Tyler Cowen

Fed’s new strategy to cut cost of borrowing, Financial Times

The big bang of bailouts, by Jeffrey Garten

Big three, meet the “little eight”, by Daniel Gross

A finger in the dike, by Nicholas Kristof

Deficits and the future, by Paul Krugman

The Madoff economy, by Paul Krugman

What to do, by Paul Krugman

Obama’s economic opportunity, by Robert Kuttner

$73 an hour: adding it up, by David Leonhardt

Grim job report not showing full picture, by David Leonhardt and Catherine Rampell

Crises and government, by Greg Mankiw

All recessions not created equal, New York Times

A proposal: employment-linked tax incentives, by Dani Rodrik

Automaker bankruptcies would cost up to 3.3 million U.S. jobs, by Robert Scott

Which is best: monetary policy, government spending, or tax cuts?, by Mark Thoma

How to squeeze the most from a stimulus plan, by Louis Uchitelle

Bernanke confronts the challenge of a lifetime, by Martin Wolf

Profit-maximization as the sole goal of a corporation, by Martin Wolf

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

Improving the measurement of poverty, by Rebecca Blank and Mark Greenberg

How severance stacks up, BusinessWeek

Widening inequality means a democracy at risk, by Benjamin Friedman

Cause for alarm? Understanding recent trends in teenage childbearing, by Frank Furstenberg

The politics of fighting poverty in faltering economies, by William Galston

Is unemployment benefit a good thing after all?, by Tim Harford

Do liberals hate charity?, by Ezra Klein

The problem of wages, by Ezra Klein

Measuring the safety nets of the jobless, New York Times

Software that opens worlds to the disabled, New York Times

Creating second chances, by Devah Pager

Why do Americans still hate welfare?, by R.M. Schneiderman

EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids, UCBerkeleyNews

Nordic blogging, by Matthew Yglesias

Globalization

Finance, redistribution, globalisation, by Giuseppe Bertola and Anna Lo Prete

Obama has to lead the way on trade, by Clive Crook

How to sell anti-protectionism, by Leif Pagrotsky

Taxes

Taxes of the rich and famous, by Kevin Drum

Tax havens, Financial Times

Why wait to repeal tax cuts for the rich?, by Robert H. Frank

VATs next?, by Howard Gleckman

Health care

An unhealthy individual health insurance market, by Lester Feder and Ellen-Marie Whelan

The case for public plan choice in national health reform, by Jacob Hacker

The importance of the number, by Ezra Klein

What does health care reform mean? How quickly can we get there? LBJ’s example, by Maggie Mahar

Can Americans afford Medicare?, by Uwe Reinhardt

Education

No education silver bullet, by Dana Goldstein

Improving educational outcomes for poor children, by Brian Jacob and Jens Ludwig

College may soon become unaffordable for most in U.S., by Tamar Lewin

How Finland educates the youngest children, by Sara Mead

Housing

White House philosophy stoked mortgage bonfire, by Jo Becker, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, and Stephen Lebaton

The myth of the happy homeowner, by Richard Florida

Cities

Homes on the cheap, by Ryan Avent

New York, New York: America’s resilient city, by Ed Glaeser

U.S. politics

Experience first, by Ezra Klein

The most liberal Congress in history?, by Nolan McCarty

Polarization, by Nolan McCarty

The future of conservatism, by Richard Posner

Five big changes that are transforming our country, by Ruy Teixeira

Millenials’ views about government intervention, by Ruy Teixeira

How historic a victory?, by Michael Tomasky

Abroad

Never again, for real, by Madeleine Albright and William Cohen

French unions losing influence in downturn, by Katrin Bennhold

Does peacekeeping work?, by Chris Blattman

Why the coup in Guinea must be overturned, by Chris Blattman

How migrating workers from eastern Europe are improving labour markets, by Charlemagne

Why the left in Europe is not benefiting from the economic crisis, by Charlemagne

The end of the end of the revolution (Cuba), by Roger Cohen

If I were James Purnell… (UK), by Chris Dillow

Unmade in China, by Geoff Dyer

Coups and attempted coups are going out of fashion, The Economist

Democracy in Latin America, The Economist

Welfare reform in the U.K., The Economist

A slap-up immigration debate in Sweden, Financial Times

Preventing genocide, by Lexington

Massacre unfurls in Congo, despite nearby support, New York Times

Unemployed immigrants struggle as Spain rolls up the welcome mat, New York Times

A domino effect in the global work force, by Floyd Norris

Good news in bad times, by Jeffrey Sachs

Miscellaneous

Abortion politics didn’t doom the G.O.P., by Ross Douhat

Our mutual joy, by Lisa Miller

In a first, gay rights are pressed at the U.N., New York Times

Barcelona is winning with style and a new coach, New York Times

Why getting your way as president isn’t just a numbers game, by Matt Bai

Election debriefing, by Larry Bartels

Last of the culture warriors, by Peter Beinart

The emerging center-left majority, by Robert Borosage and Stanley Greenberg

Darkness at dusk, by David Brooks

Two cheers for American democracy, The Economist

Who cares whether there’s an electoral realignment?, by Henry Farrell

Nonblack voting for Obama by region, by Andrew Gelman

Red/blue/rich/poor: 2008 update, by Andrew Gelman

Data matter, by Howard Gleckman

Why the rich voted for Obama against their own economic interest, by Daniel Gross

America the liberal, by John Judis

A conservative nation, by Ezra Klein

The next center, by Ezra Klein

Rambling about Kansas, by Ezra Klein

Obama and the war on brains, by Nicholas Kristof

The Obama agenda, by Paul Krugman

Palin’s rising star?, by Josh Marshall

Presidential candidates’ share of white vote, 1968-2008, by Timothy Noah

Matt Bai wrong on demand for government, by Brendan Nyhan

Dissecting the changing electorate, New York Times

Margins of victory, New York Times

The fundamentals mattered, by John Sides

There is no realignment, by John Sides

The Obama challenge: make four transformations work together, by Theda Skocpol

How did Obama win over white, blue-collar Levittown?, by Michael Sokolove

The realignment opportunity, by Paul Starr

Digging into the 2008 exit polls, by Ruy Teixeira

U.S. economy

Capitalism is more than a spectator sport, by Alan Blinder

Panic in Detroit, by Jonathan Cohn

Restore confidence first, by Tyler Cowen

The New Deal didn’t always work either, by Tyler Cowen

Why I was wrong, by Brad DeLong

Putting the air back in, The Economist

How to get a bang from the stimulus buck, by Justin Fox

Debt man walking, by John Judis

Let’s have another cup of coffee, by Michael Kinsley

Depression economics returns, by Paul Krugman

The lame-duck economy, by Paul Krugman

Top priority is stabilizing the patient, by David Leonhardt

What would Keynes have done?, by Greg Mankiw

Americans have lost their appetite for spending, by Floyd Norris

Why America needs an economic strategy, by Michael Porter

The mini depression and the maximum-strength remedy, by Robert Reich

No more economic false choices, by Robert Rubin and Jared Bernstein

Regulation should be international, by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff

A darker future for us, by Robert Samuelson

A $1 trillion answer, by Joseph Stiglitz

Slow recovery of labor markets, by Mark Thoma

Obama’s economic challenges, by Martin Wolf

Living standards, poverty, inequality, well-being

U.S. intragenerational economic mobility from 1984 to 2004, by Gregory Acs and Seth Zimmerman

Social mobility: an uphill battle, by Chris Dillow

The poverty of the official poverty rate, by Nicholas Eberstadt (via Will Wilkinson)

Where has all the income gone?, by Terry Fitzgerald (via Greg Mankiw)

Unions seek new rules, by Steven Greenhouse

Will the safety net catch the economy’s casualties?, by Steven Greenhouse

100 days for the middle class, by Anne Kim and Jim Kessler

Who is in the middle?, by Eduardo Porter

Bridge the wealth gap, by Robert Shiller

Trapped in the new “you’re on your own” world, by Robert Solow

Rein in chief’s pay? It’s doable, by Andrew Sorkin

Equitable and efficient redistribution, by Mark Thoma

Meet the HENRYs (high earners, not rich yet), by Shawn Tully (via Justin Fox)

The economic decline of America’s middle class, 2000-2006, by Jennifer Wheary, Thomas Shapiro, Tamara Draut, and Tatjana Meschede

The economic downturn takes its toll on well-being, by Justin Wolfers

Taxes

A consumption tax, by Robert H. Frank

A few tax policy suggestions for our new president, by Jeff Frankel

Health care

President Obama’s path to greatness: health care as stimulus, by Dean Baker

Five myths about our ailing health-care system, by Sharon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel

The beginning, not the end, by Ezra Klein

Why does U.S. health care cost so much? Parts one and two, by Uwe Reinhardt

Education

Obama and our schools, by Nicholas Kristof

Why universal pre-K?, by Sara Mead

Importance of test scores in college admissions increases, New York Times

Environment

The climate for change, by Al Gore

Abroad

Why the Germans just hate to spend, spend, spend, by Bertrand Benoit

The problems, and benefits, of urbanisation on a vast scale, The Economist

Rejoin the world, by Nicholas Kristof

Stunned Icelanders struggle after economy’s fall, New York Times

Miscellaneous

Gay marriage and a moral minority, by Charles Blow

Professors’ liberalism contagious? Maybe not, New York Times

The loving decision, by Anna Quindlen

The other side, by Mark Thoma