Research
What Would Galbraith Say?
Impact of For-Profit and Non-Profit Management on Student Achievement: The Philadelphia Intervention, 2002-2008
The School District of Philadelphia, in the summer of 2002, at the request of the State of Pennsylvania, asked for-profit and nonprofit managers to participate in a substantial restructuring of its lo
Unlocking the Power of Networks: Keys to High-Performance Government
The era of textbook top-down, stovepiped public management in America is over, and the traditional dichotomy between public ownership and privatization is an outdated notion.
The Transformation of Government Work: Causes, Consequences, and Distortions
The dramatic growth of government over the course of the twentieth century since the New Deal prompts concern among libertarians and conservatives and also among those who worry about government’s cos
Prudent Privatization
Price Controls And Global Pharmaceutical Progress
This Perspective reviews critically the work on price control impacts by Darius Lakdawalla and colleagues.
On the Paternity of a Market Delineation Approach
This paper by Harvard University’s F. M.
What’s Left for Government to Do?
It is difficult to get Democrats and Republicans to agree about much of anyÂthing these days, but politicians of every stripe are likely to concur on this proposiÂtion: government at all levels has pr
Introducing Competition into Natural Monopoly Industries: An Evaluation of Mandated Access to Australian Freight Railroads, Regulatory Policy Program Working Paper RPP-2007-05, MR-CBG Kennedy School o
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