Anyone who followed the 2008 presidential campaign knows which candidate was considered
“hard to like,” which was likely to bring change,…
If Congress creates a public option in health-care insurance, will that inevitably lead to a single-payer system, with the government…
There are a lot of ideas out there for improving the government’s procurement system. Some seem intelligent (better requirements discipline…
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…