Conflict of interest in government: Avoiding ethical and conceptual mistakes
Conflict of interest is among the most regulated forms of official behavior.
Research
Beyond the Sound and Fury: The Landscape of Curricular Contestation in Texas
Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies curricula.
From Products to Capabilities: Constructing a Genotypic Product Space
Economic development is a path-dependent process in which countries accumulate capabilities that allow them to move into more complex products and industries.
Normalizing Reparations: U.S. Precedent, Norms, and Models for Compensating Harms and Implications for Reparations to Black Americans
Paying reparations to Black Americans has long been contentiously debated.
From Crisis to Opportunity: How the City of Portland Embraced Democratic Innovation
Portland, Oregon recently passed Measure 26-228, which represents some of the most expansive voting reforms by a major American city in recent history.
The Social Costs of Sovereign Default
This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt.
Dealing with Guilt and Shame in International Politics
State and non-state actors often try to provoke moral emotions like guilt and shame to mobilize political change.
Sovereign Debt: 200 Years of Creditor Losses
We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or “haircuts”.
It Is Time to Consider More Price Regulation in Health Care
Recent efforts to control spending, including accountable care organizations, value-based payment, and high-deductible health plans, have emphasized optimizing patterns of health service use.
Review of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
Martin Wolf begins The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by observing: “As the Cold War ended, in 1989, many agreed … that the Western synthesis of liberal democracy with the free market had won a decis
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