This last week’s deeply contrasting stories of two New Englanders caught in the Middle East’s maelstrom of violence — the savage murder of…
After piling up trillions of dollars of war debt during the last decade, America seemed to be on the brink of a new era -- ready to shut…
Senior government executives make many decisions, not-infrequently difficult ones. Cognitive limitations and biases preclude individuals…
Senior government executives make many difficult decisions, but research suggests that individual cognitive limitations and the pathologies…
We conduct and analyze two large surveys of hypothetical annuitization choices. We find that allowing individuals to annuitize a fraction…
The premise of this article is that an understanding of psychology and other social science disciplines can inform the effectiveness of the…
The current crisis of democracy has many causes. The one I discuss here is the inability of our democratic institutions -- and our…
This address advances three ideas. First, political science as a discipline has a mandate to help human beings govern themselves. Second,…