Search Results 132 Results Found for Winter 2018 What Drives Innovation? Richard R. Nelson, Irwin Feller, Sallie Keller, Stephanie Shipp In “What Does Innovation Today Tell Us about the US Economy Tomorrow?” (Issues, Fall 2017), Jeffrey Funk starts with an assertion that puzzles me, but after that he develops and… Read More Spring 2010 Every Little bit Counts Kathleen Courrier The world’s top search engine, a $175 billion corporation second only to Coca Cola in name recognition worldwide, and a new active verb, Google knows what it’s about. But others aren’t so… Read More Winter 2010 Changing Climate, More Damaging Weather Robert Repetto, Robert Easton The weather varies, but climate change affects the frequencies with which particular weather occurs, including the frequencies of extreme weather, such as heavy storms, heat waves, and droughts. More frequent weather extremes… Read More Spring 2007 From the Hill – Spring 2007 Bush 2008 budget: More bad news for R&D On February 5, President Bush released his budget for fiscal year (FY) 2008, just as the new Democratic majority in Congress was racing to… Read More Spring 2006 For What the Tolls Pay: Fair and Efficient Highway Charges Rudolph G. Penner Hydrogen cars, expensive oil, fuel efficiency standards, and inflation frighten those interested in maintaining and improving U.S. highways. All of these forces could erode the real value of fuel taxes that now… Read More Fall 2004 Meeting the New Challenge to U.S. Economic Competitiveness William B. Bonvillian The U.S. economy, seemingly a world-dominant Goliath in the mid- and late-1990s, now faces major structural challenges from a new cast of Davids. The nation confronts a host of new economic challengers… Read More Fall 2003 New Economy Lite Kenneth Flamm Roger Alcaly’s title overpromises. Despite this, the book contains a useful introduction for a lay reader to a set of topics that academic economists interested in the interaction between high technology and… Read More Fall 2003 The Limits of the Polygraph David L. Faigman, Stephen E. Fienberg, Paul C. Stern Polygraphs, also known as lie detectors, are not as accurate as television suggests. Their use is problematic and courts should be skeptical. Fall 2001 The Info/Biotech Connection Kevin Finneran Although wide agreement exists that information technology (IT) and biotechnology will be the primary sources of innovation for the foreseeable future, this insight seems not to have penetrated fully into federal research… Read More Summer 2000 Preserving Privacy Priscilla Regan Telling “good stories” has been and will continue to be meaningful in making the impact of technology on privacy issues less abstract and more real. Simson Garfinkel’s Database Nation is the most… Read More Fall 1999 Pork Barrel Science Norman Metzger In 1972, three architects—Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour—published a book entitled Learning from Las Vegas. Its premise was simple if controversial: That however garish, ugly, and bizarre an… Read More Summer 1998 Toward a Global Science Bruce M. Alberts In the early 1990s, the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government published a series of reports emphasizing the need for a greatly increased role for science and scientists in international affairs.… Read More Previous
