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• Summer 2016

  Donald Trump’s Voters and the Decline of American Manufacturing

  William B. Bonvillian

  Who are Donald Trump’s voters? What do they want? Observers call them angry, but anger has root causes and grievances. A December 2015 Washington Post-ABC News poll tells what we already… Read More

• Winter 2017

  Infrastructure and Democracy

  Christopher Jones, David Reinecke

  The recent bitterly contested election revealed little common ground between the major parties. Yet President-elect Donald Trump and his opponent Hillary Clinton had at least one shared priority: both agreed that America’s… Read More

• Winter 2017

  Forum – Winter 2017

  Anthony P. Carnevale, Jody A. Roberts, Jennifer Kuzma, Christina Peña, Michael J. Handel, Bernard D. Goldstein, Judith Reppy, Megan J. Palmer, David A. Relman, Qin Zhu, Richard Olson, Jim Salzman

  Needed: better labor market data In “Better Jobs Information Benefits Everyone” (Issues, Fall 2016), Andrew Reamer ably describes recent progress in building longitudinal market data systems. But as he notes,… Read More

• Fall 2016

  A Second Act for Risk-Based Chemicals Regulation

  Keith B. Belton, James W. Conrad Jr.

  The Toxic Substances Control Act amendments put risk assessment at center stage. How will it perform? At a time when partisan squabbles and election-year politics dominate the headlines, Congress did something remarkable… Read More

• Fall 2016

  Not ’Til the Fat Lady Sings: TSCA’s Next Act

  David Goldston

  The newly enacted revision to the failed chemical safety law marks a rare recent example of bipartisanship, but whether it will lead to improved environmental protection remains to be seen. When President… Read More

• Winter 2015

  Closing the Energy-Demonstration Gap

  Richard K. Lester, David M. Hart

  A regional approach to demonstrating the commercial potential of major new energy technologies would open up new opportunities for accelerating innovation. The high costs and risks of demonstrating new clean energy technologies… Read More

• Spring 2016

  The Rise of the Platform Economy

  Martin Kenney, John Zysman

  A digital platform economy is emerging. Companies such as Amazon, Etsy, Facebook, Google, Salesforce, and Uber are creating online structures that enable a wide range of human activities. This opens the way… Read More

• Winter 2016

  A Policy Experiment is Worth a Million Lives

  Lynn T. Kozlowski

  Smoking cigarettes is a public health disaster in the United States and the rest of the world. Every year, around 500,000 smokers die prematurely, and the Surgeon General considers smoking the single… Read More

• Fall 2014

  No Time for Pessimism about Electric Cars

  John D. Graham, Joshua Cisney, Sanya Carley, John Rupp

  The national push to adopt electric cars should be sustained until at least 2017, when a review of fed auto policies is scheduled. A distinctive feature of U.S. energy and environmental policy… Read More

• Summer 2014

  What Fish Oil Pills Are Hiding

  David Schleifer, Alison Fairbrother

  DAVID SCHLEIFER ALISON FAIRBROTHER One Woman’s Quest to Save the Chesapeake Bay from the Dietary Supplement Industry Julie Vanderslice thought fish were disgusting. She didn’t like to look at them. She didn’t… Read More

• Fall 2010

  Is the Smart Grid Really a Smart Idea?

  Marc Levinson

  It is hard to quarrel with the idea that it is good to be smart. That presumably is why the proponents of some radical changes in the design of the U.S. electrical… Read More

• Spring 2014

  Anticipating a Luddite Revival

  Stuart W. Elliott

  Even as computer-based consumer products have transformed our leisure and social lives over the past decade, information technology (IT) and robotics suggest a transformation of work that might be even more far-reaching.… Read More

• Fall 2010

  Where Are the Health Care Entrepreneurs?

  David M. Cutler

  Health care in the United States is notorious for market imperfections. Costs are higher and outcomes worse than almost all analyses of the industry suggest are reasonable. Indeed, few other industries perform… Read More

• Winter 2014

  All Adaptation Is Local

  William A. Stiles Jr.

  Attention to the political context of coastal communities will be necessary if the United States is to improve on its current storm-by-storm approach to climate adaptation.

• Winter 2009

  Practical Pieces of the Energy Puzzle: Getting More Miles per Gallon

  Christopher Evans, Lynette Cheah, Anup Bandivadekar, John Heywood

  The answer may require looking beyond CAFE standards and implementing other consumer-oriented policy options to wean drivers away from past habits. In December 2007, concerns over energy security and human-induced climate change… Read More

• Summer 2012

  Eight Questions for Drug Policy Research

  Mark A. R. Kleiman, Jonathan P. Caulkins, Angela Hawken, Beau Kilmer

  Drug abuse—of licit and illicit drugs alike—is a big medical and social problem and attracts a substantial amount of research attention. But the most attractive and most easily fundable research topics are… Read More

• Spring 2012

  Is Open-Source Software the Answer?

  Pamela Samuelson

  Open-source software has been an enigma to many commentators. Economists, for example, have pondered why any rational person would invest time and energy developing computer programs in order to make them freely… Read More

• Winter 2012

  Better Skills for Better Jobs

  Harry J. Holzer

  In 2008 and 2009, the U.S. economy shed more than 8 million jobs; since 2009, the economy has created only about 2 million. Most economists expect the labor market to continue to… Read More

• Winter 2012

  Reducing Oil Use in Transportation

  Emil Frankel, Thomas Menzies

  The public’s interest in reducing oil consumption has ebbed and flowed for decades, first prompted by the supply shocks of the 1970s and persisting today because of concerns about the buildup of… Read More

• Winter 2012

  Improving Spent-Fuel Storage at Nuclear Reactors

  Robert Alvarez

  The nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, which began with an earthquake in March 2011 and continues today, is casting a spotlight on nuclear reactors in the United States. At the Dai-Ichi nuclear… Read More