Technological changes and improved electronic communications seem, paradoxically, to be making cities more, rather than less, important.…
Whatever late compromise is finally agreed upon in the U.S. debt ceiling debate, the most difficult hurdles for any deficit-reduction…
The sudden pace at which revolutionary fires swept across North Africa took the world by surprise: It was a hopeful Arab Spring for many.…
Book abstract: Although numerous studies of religious rituals have been conducted by religious studies scholars, anthropologists,…
In this paper, we analyze the incentives of an incumbent and an entrant to migrate from an "old" technology to a "new" technology, and…
If Bill Safire were still with us and writing a column about the debt follies in Washington, he might well begin by asking readers: Which…
Most social scientists would like to believe that their profession contributes to solving pressing global problems. Indeed, the United…
We study the predictive power of approximately 2.5 million stock picks submitted by individual users to the “CAPS” website run by the…