I approach the state of global currency issues by identifying eight concepts that I see as having recently “peaked” and eight more that I…
In international monetary economics our exam questions remain the same. Only the answers change, from decade to decade. I nominate five…
The gaps in the Kyoto Protocol that most badly need to be filled are: the absence of emission targets extending far into the future, the…
In recent work I have tried to revitalize the standpoint of humanity's commonly owning the earth. This standpoint has implications for a…
Years ago, when my son was a young teenager, the two of us stood at the bottom of Tuckerman’s Ravine in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.…
A broad consensus holds that increased medical capability—technology—is the primary driver of health spending growth. However, technology…
Spending on health care in markets with a larger percentage of primary care physicians (PCPs) is lower at any point in time than is true in…
Dartmouth researchers have demonstrated that there is tremendous geographic variation in the efficiency of health care delivery systems,…
The “Report of the Genocide Prevention Task Force” has become the go-to guide for genocide prevention, capturing and in some cases…
Without energy, there is no economy. Without climate, there is no environment. Without economy and environment, there is no material well-…