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Fairness and Dynamic Pricing

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

Private-Party Gun Sales, Regulation, and Public Safety

In 2007, a total of 12,632 people in the United States were murdered with firearms, and it is estimated that another 48,676 were treated in hospitals for gunshot wounds received in assaults.

Crisis and Innovation: Let the Bad Times Roll

For its first several years, the Harvard Kennedy School program to celebrate public-sector breakthroughs was called Innovations in State and Local Government.

From Prevention to Response: Using Military Force to Oppose Mass Atrocities

What can be done to combat genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other crimes against humanity? Why aren’t current measures more effective? Is there hope for the future?

The Death of Turkey's Democracy

I no longer recognize Turkey, the country where I was raised and spend most of my time when I am not teaching in the U.S. It wasn't so long ago that the country seemed to be taking significant str

“Schooling Can’t Buy Me Love”: Marriage, Work, and the Gender Education Gap in Latin America

In this paper we establish six stylized facts related to marriage and work in Latin America and present a simple model to account for them.

Black Swans -- Comment on Financial Cycles: What? How? When? by Stijn Claessens, M.Ayhan Kose and Marco Terrones

The Elasticity of Trust: How to Promote Trust in the Arab Middle East and the United States

To trust is to risk.

Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons: A Discussion of Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

This article evaluates Ostrom’s classic on its adaption of any coercive system to local features and particularly the costs of monitoring and sanctioning.

The Fiscal Crisis in State Government – And What Should be Done About It

While the federal deficit captures the news headlines, there is a deep and pervasive fiscal crisis in state finance.