What is science’s proper role in democracy? A half-century ago the answer seemed plain: to “speak truth to power.” Science and politics existed in separate spheres of facts and values.
In “The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing,” Ahmad Faruqui lays out a case for improved efficiency in using dynamic prices for retail electricity tariffs and addresses various issues about the distribution
The Deliberative Polls of James Fishkin and Robert Luskin represent today the gold standard of attempts to sample what a considered public opinion might be on issues of political importance.1 Those po
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, enacted in 2003, substantially reduced payment rates for chemotherapy drugs administered on an outpatient basis starting in Ja
In Sarah Sewall's chapter, “NATO and Complex Operations: the challenge of responding to mass atrocity,” she urges NATO to incorporate mass atrocity response operations (MARO) into its future mission c
The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity provides a synoptic overview of the current state of interdisciplinary research, education, administration and management, and problem solving-knowledge that
Between 1996 and 2006, real housing prices rose by 53 percent according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency price index.
Objective: To examine the impact of the Medicare drug benefit (Part D) on the distribution of out-of-pocket pharmacy spending among older adults.
China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily paste labels-communist, non-Western, developing country-but wh
Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects.
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