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• 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

• Fall 2010

  Transforming Education in the Primary Years

  Lisa Guernsey, Sara Mead

  When more than two-thirds of students cannot read at grade level and barely three-quarters are graduating from high school on time, it is time to reevaluate not just how well our schools… Read More

• Summer 2011

  Forum – Summer 2011

  John Deutch, Peter Fox-Penner, Christine Parthemore, Jeffrey Shuren, Charles Rosen, James B. Young, Ahmad Faruqui, Domenico Grasso, Sarah A. Vogel, Matt Hourihan, William P. Barry, Louis Friedman, James E. Oberg, Howard E. McCurdy

  The climate/security nexus Richard A. Matthew has published “Is Climate Change a National Security Issue?” (Issues, Spring 2011) at just the right time. I would answer his question with… Read More

• Winter 2011

  Fighting Innovation Mercantilism

  Stephen Ezell

  Despite the global economic downturn, indicators of global innovative activity have remained strong during the past two years. The total global output of scientific journal papers in all research fields for the… Read More

• Summer 2010

  Critical Minerals and Emerging Technologies

  Roderick G. Eggert

  The periodic table is under siege. Or at least that is what one might imagine after hearing some of the cries of alarm that have begun echoing across the United States. We… Read More

• Spring 2010

  Forum – Spring 2010

  Victor Van Lint, Justin Logan, Thomas A. Lumpkin, Josh Svaty, Dennis Keeney

  Better, more affordable health care In “Better U.S. Health Care at Lower Cost” (Issues, Winter 2010), Arnold Milstein and Helen Darling make an excellent case for improving U.S. health… Read More

• Summer 2009

  Electronic Health Records: Their Time Has Come

  Don E. Detmer

  In 1991, when portable computers were the size of sewing machines and the World Wide Web was aborning, the Institute of Medicine proposed a plan for how emerging technologies could be used… Read More

• Winter 2009

  Practical Pieces of the Energy Puzzle: Low Carbon Fuel Standards

  Daniel Sperling, Sonia Yeh

  The most direct and effective policy for transitioning to low-carbon alternative transportation fuels is to spur innovation with a comprehensive performance standard for upstream fuel producers. When it comes to energy security… Read More

• Winter 2009

  Practical Pieces of the Energy Puzzle: A Full-Court Press for Renewable Energy

  Frank N. Laird

  Transformation of the energy system will require steady and generous government support across technological, economic, and social domains. Any effort to move the United States away from its current fossil-fuel energy system… Read More

• Summer 2008

  Fixing the Parole System

  Mark A. R. Kleiman, Angela Hawken

  About 600,000 felons will be released from prison this year in the United States and begin some form of official supervision, usually parole. But the nation’s system for managing them in the… Read More

• Spring 2008

  Asian Successes vs. Middle Eastern Failures: The Role of Technology Transfer in Economic Development

  Howard Pack

  In 1960, Korea, Taiwan, Syria, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt were in roughly the same economic position. Average per capita income was about $1,500 in 1995 U.S. dollars, and none of these… Read More

• Fall 2006

  Reorienting U.S. Drug Policy

  Jonathan P. Caulkins, Peter Reuter

  The United States will soon surpass the half-million mark for drug prisoners, which is more than 10 times as many as in 1980. It is an extraordinary number, more than Western Europe… Read More

• Summer 2007

  Forum – Summer 2007

  Neal Lane, Ron Hira, Denis Fred Simon, Cong Cao, Gerald Wheeler, Rick Rashid, Richard P. Suttmeier, Virginia S. Bacay Watson, Mukul G. Asher, George M. Scalise, Adam Segal, Leon M. Lederman, Camilla P. Benbow, Jeanne M. Fox, Clay W. Crites

  Not enough U.S. engineers? Vivek Wadhwa, Gary Gereffi, Ben Rissing, and Ryan Ong from Duke University have clearly put a lot of work into their study of engineering education in the United… Read More

• Spring 2007

  India’s Growth Path: Steady but not Straight

  Salil Tripathi

  By almost any reckoning, the Indian economy is booming. This year, Indian officials revised their estimated economic growth for 2006 from 8% to 9.3%. This growth has been sustained over the past… Read More

• Spring 2006

  Regulatory diversity

  Erik Millstone

  Polling data from the late 1990s in Europe and the United States revealed curious differences in public attitudes. In the United States, there appeared to be a high level of acceptance of… Read More

• Spring 2006

  Federal Neglect: Regulation of Genetic Testing

  Gail H. Javitt, Kathy Hudson

  Government needs to ensure that genetic tests provide useful medical information and that the test results are reliable. U.S. consumers generally take for granted that the government assesses the safety and effectiveness… Read More

• Spring 2006

  Forum – Spring 2006

  Gilbert E. Metcalf, John A. Alic, Richard B. Stewart, Jonathan B. Wiener, Ian Parry, Leon Clarke, Nicholas Pinter, Robert S. Young, Robert Bea, Robert H. Meade, James K. Hammitt, Daniel J. Dudek, Paul Runci, James Dooley, Ed David, Douglas Lilly, Jesse Ausubel, Robert J. Naiman, Joshua J. Latterell, Kurt Yeager

  In “Rethinking, Then Rebuilding New Orleans” (Issues, Winter 2006), Richard E. Sparks presents a commendable plan for rebuilding a limited and more disaster-resistant New Orleans by protecting the historic… Read More

• Winter 2006

  A Green Approach to Tax Reform

  Craig Hanson

  The Bush administration has called for federal tax reform and appointed an advisory panel to develop recommendations. Because the administration has stipulated that any reform must be “revenue-neutral,” there will be a… Read More

• Winter 2006

  Is the Next Economy Taking Shape?

  Robert D. Atkinson

  Recent economic trends, including a massive trade deficit, declining median incomes, and relatively weak job growth, have been, to say the least, somewhat disheartening. But there is one bright spot: strong productivity… Read More

• Fall 2004

  Protecting Public Anonymity

  M. Granger Morgan, Elaine Newton

  People in the United States have long enjoyed an expectation of anonymity when traveling or performing everyday activities in most public places. For example, they expect not to be recognized, or to… Read More

• Fall 2005

  Even Universities Change

  Stuart J. Feldman

  U.S. research universities are going to change, and education leaders would be wise to begin now to direct that change. This will not be easy, but they have the advantage of being… Read More

• Summer 2005

  Green Urbanism

  Bill Hendrickson

  In Native to Nowhere, Timothy Beatley builds on the rich literature about the importance of the built environment in fostering and strengthening a sense of place in a community. Thanks to… Read More