Recent work on social capital has underlined the importance of networks and other ties among socially dissimilar persons (bridging ties).…
The lecture outlines major trends affecting both the nature of urban problems and the shape of much public interest problem-solving in…
Strategic trade theory has been criticized on the grounds that its predictions are overly sensitive to modeling assumptions. For example,…
We examine a rapidly emerging regulatory approach that we label "management-based regulation." Management-based regulation shifts the…
Global environmental change is increasingly understood to have causes, consequences, and responses which span multiple levels, from the…
This paper draws on American experience with four categories of market-based instruments
for environmental protection: charge systems;…
The book American Economic Policy in the 1990s, which has a publication date of Spring 2002 from MIT Press, is the outcome of a conference…
This paper extends the well-studied phenomenon of interviewer effects (race-, gender-, and ethnicity-of-interviewer) to the yet unexamined…
The transfer of institutions from one country to another is an important means of learning and problem solving. Unfortunately, many such…
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A growing body of research shows the influence of political elites on the public's policy preferences. Yet we know little about the…