A Night to Woo Women Voters
Who knew it was Ladies’ Night in Boca Raton? Governor Mitt Romney tried to woo the female vote Monday night at the final presidential debate by playing the guy next door.
Research
How Long Do Treatment Effects Last? Persistence and Durability of a Descriptive Norms Intervention's Effect on Energy Conservation
Behavioral decision research has profoundly changed our understanding of decision-making. Recent research has begun to explore how behavioral insights can influence behavior in the world, at scale.
Four Magic Tricks for Fiscal Conservatives
The United States is famous for its ability to innovate.
Is the Foreign Policy Debate Irrelevant?
President Obama and former Governor Mitt Romney will meet for the third and final presidential debate Monday night to discuss foreign policy.
Boston School-Assignments: Listen to the Nobel Committee
Did the Nobel Prize Committee choose this year’s economics laureates to influence the growing debate in Boston about how to assign students to public schools?
Agents of Change: Strategy and Tactics for Social Innovation
While governments around the world struggle to maintain service levels amid fiscal crises, social innovators are improving social outcomes for citizens by changing the system from within.
Barriers to the Implementation of Green Chemistry in the United States
This paper investigates the conditions under which firms are able to develop and implement innovations with sustainable development benefits.
A Précis of On Global Justice, With Emphasis on Implications for International Institutions
The two traditional ways of thinking about justice at the global level either limit the applicability of justice to states or else extend it to all human beings.
Sorry, U.S. Recoveries Really Aren’t Different
Five years after the onset of the 2007 subprime financial crisis, U.S. gross domestic product per capita remains below its initial level.
Don't Let Candidates Dodge Questions
The emerging consensus about Thursday night's vice presidential debate is that there was a high degree of professionalism on the stage. Why?
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