Table of Contents
Is Information Technology Creating a Productivity Boom?
Summer 1998
Toward a Global Science
Bruce M. Alberts
By working together internationally, scientists can better use their knowledge to benefit humanity.
Making Guns Safer
Stephen P. Teret, Susan Defrancesco, Stephen W. Hargarten, Krista D. Robinson
The technology now exists to make guns that only authorized users can operate. These safer guns could cut gun-related deaths and injuries.
Computers Can Accelerate Productivity Growth
Robert H. McGuckin, Kevin J. Stiroh
The evidence can be found by comparing computer-intensive industrial sectors with other sectors.
No Productivity Boom for Workers
Stephen S. Roach
Information technology has yet to deliver on its promise of faster productivity growth.
Resolving the Paradox of Environmental Protection
Jonathan Howes, DeWitt John, Richard A. Minard Jr.
EPA's central challenge is to maintain rigorous national standards while providing the utmost flexibility to states, communities, and companies.
Saving Medicare
Janet O'Keeffe, Jo Ann Lamphere
Before making any changes, we should look closely at how they will affect the neediest among the elderly.
Shaping a Smarter Environmental Policy for Farming
David E. Ervin
The use of compelling incentives-not direct controls-is the best way to reduce agricultural pollution.
Book Review: Love Canal revisited
Sheila Jasanoff
Book Review: Bioethics for everyone
Norman Fost