China, with its geographical, historical, cultural, and political distance from the West, long has been a black box upon which we readily…
Book abstract: In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has…
The Survey points out promising directions for reform, including strengthening government capacities for formulating and implementing…
Prevailing theories hold that U.S. public support for a war depends primarily on its degree of success, U.S. casualties, or conflict goals…
In “The Ethics of Dynamic Pricing,” Ahmad Faruqui lays out a case for
improved efficiency in using dynamic prices for retail electricity…
The Deliberative Polls of James Fishkin and Robert Luskin represent today the gold standard of attempts to sample what a considered public…
What is science’s proper role in democracy? A half-century ago the answer seemed plain: to “speak truth to power.” Science and politics…
On Graduation from Default, Inflation and Banking Crises: Elusive or Illusion? Kenneth Rogoff, July 2010, Paper. "This paper uses a data…
The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship. Andrei Shleifer, Tim Ganser, July 2010, Paper. "We present new data…
The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small. Edward Glaeser, William Kerr, July 2010, Paper. "With job growth continuing to lag even as…