On December 16 Japan will hold an election and if the polls are correct, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will be replaced by Shinzo Abe, the…
Book abstract: In recent years, remarkable progress has been made in behavioral research on a wide variety of topics, from behavioral…
Traditional models of why people vote conceptualize voting as a static, self-interested
decision. This conceptualization cannot explain why…
Though the dust from the election has barely settled — the nation has already moved on.
Consuming our attention now is the budget crisis…
For a United States citizen, the short trip to Havana requires navigating an obstacle course, owing to the trade and travel embargo that…
As we celebrate Thanksgiving this year, the world seems troubled, from the Hamas-Israel stand-off in Gaza to Syria’s bloody civil war to…
Iron Dome, Israel’s rocket defense system, fundamentally altered the dynamic between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza. The system…
A principal provides budgets to agents (e.g., divisions of a firm or the principal’s children) whose expenditures provide her benefits,…
What Washington Must Do Now: An Eight-Point Plan to Restore American Competitiveness. Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, November 21, 2012,…
In economic systems, the mix of products that
countries make or export has been shown to be a strong leading
indicator of economic…