In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and…
One of the most fundamental obligations of any
society is to prepare its adolescents and young adults
to lead productive and prosperous…
By putting together a relatively large data set on bilateral remittances of emigrants, this paper is able to shed light on the important…
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led…
Book abstract: How have monetary policies matured during the last decade?
The recent downturn in economies worldwide have put monetary…
High U.S. incarceration rates have motivated recent research on the negative effects of imprisonment on later employment, earnings, and…
Sequencing the human genome provided a powerful new way to represent human identity, and the moral implications of that re-representation…
All too often government lacks the skill, the will, and the wallet to meet its missions. Schools fall short of the mark while roads and…
Capital Controls: Myth and Reality—A Portfolio Balance Approach. Carmen M. Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff, February 2011, Paper. "The literature…