Timothy Taylor has edited every issue of this journal since 1987, and his announcement doubles as a tasting menu: titles, abstracts, and a promise to blog about a few papers soon. The opener, on how US colleges sort students by test scores and spend accordingly, is exactly the calm, data-first kind of economics this feed likes. Everything back to issue one is free to read.

Taylor at his most usefully dry: a man who left college in 1982, watched the 1983 fix get made, and has now arrived at the exact date it was always going to run out. No thesis to sell, only arithmetic and a mild wish that politicians would say what they plan to do about it. The shortfall is large, the surprise is nil.

Timothy Taylor doing what he does best: one paper, no thesis to sell. The neat move is pointing the intro-econ toolkit at voting itself, so an informed electorate becomes a public good that gets underprovided, just like basic research. Whatever you make of the conclusions, it's a tidy way to see an old problem without anyone shouting.

Timothy Taylor marks Election Day not with a hot take but with a Frenchman's chapter from 1840, which is about the most soothing way available to think about it. Tocqueville's point that small inequalities sting most once equality is the norm has aged annoyingly well. Economics by way of a very long view.