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• Winter 2005

  Unleashing the Potential of Wireless Broadband

  Reed E. Hundt

  Broadcast TV, once vilified by former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Newton Minnow as a “vast wasteland,” can now also be characterized as a vast roadblock—specifically, a roadblock to the rapid expansion… Read More

• Summer 2004

  Forests Face New Threat: Global Market Changes

  Jerry F. Franklin, K. Norman Johnson

  For the past 100 years, U.S. forest policy has been guided by the assumption that the United States faced an ever-increasing scarcity of timber. Indeed, at times during the 20th century, there… Read More

• Spring 2001

  A Short Honeymoon for Utility Deregulation

  Peter Fox-Penner, Greg Basheda

  During the more than 100 years from the inception of the electric utility industry in the latter part of the 19th century through 1995, the inflation-adjusted price of electricity in the United… Read More

• Fall 2002

  Paying for Protection from Invasive Species

  Peter T. Jenkins

  The introduction of harmful, non-native, invasive species–terrestrial and aquatic–has received heightened recognition because of the threats this form of “biological pollution” poses to ecosystem health, endangered species, economic interests, and even public… Read More

• Fall 2002

  Countering Sprawl with Transit-Oriented Development

  Dena Belzer, Gerald Autler

  Since World War II, two mutually reinforcing processes have characterized U.S. cities: decentralization and an increasing reliance on the automobile. Heavy investment in roads and other implicit subsidies of automobile use, combined… Read More

• Winter 2002

  The Ethanol Answer to Carbon Emissions

  Lester B. Lave, W. Michael Griffin, Heather MacLean

  When the United States gets serious about the threat of global climate change, it should turn to ethanol to power cars. The moment is fast approaching when the United States will have… Read More

• Spring 2002

  Bolstering the Security of the Electric Power System

  Alexander E. Farrell, Lester B. Lave, Granger Morgan

  The 2001 terrorist attacks made it clear that our airliners, tall buildings, water, and even our mail are potential targets. What will actually be attacked depends on the terrorists’ goals, the damage… Read More

• Winter 2002

  Forum – Winter 2002

  Frank N. Laird, Dirk Pilat, Charles F. Larson, Vernon W. Ruttan, Thomas C. Schelling, Siegfried S. Hecker, Richard B. Allen, Reimund Schwarze, Daniel Bodansky, Scott Barrett, Herbert Pardes, Rensselaer Lee, Diana MacArthur, Maryann Feldman, Michael P. Doyle, Gary H. Toenniessen, Michael Meacher, Phyllis N. Windle

  The Kyoto Protocol I have to congratulate you on publishing Richard E. Benedick’s essay on Kyoto and its aftermath (“Striking a New Deal on Climate Change,” Issues, Fall 2001). Many of… Read More

• Summer 2001

  Redesigning Food Safety

  Michael R. Taylor, Sandra A. Hoffmann

  Controversy over genetically modified foods has helped put food safety in the headlines, but that issue, like others we read about–mad cow disease, Listeria and Salmonella outbreaks, chemical contamination–needs to be understood… Read More

• Fall 2000

  New Threat to Coral Reefs: Trade in Coral Organisms

  Andrew W. Bruckner

  Coral reef ecosystems are a valuable source of food and income to coastal communities around the world. Yet destructive human activities have now put nearly 60 percent of the world’s coral reefs… Read More

• Fall 2000

  Technology and People

  Martha Farnsworth Riche

  Have you ever been in an airline lounge so crowded that you couldn’t avoid overhearing people in a loud, spirited, and arcane critique of wrong-headed colleagues? That’s the flavor of much of… Read More

• Summer 2001

  More than a Food Fight

  Julia A. Moore

  From some perspectives, the news for agricultural biotechnology boosters seems good. Latest figures show farmers sowing genetically modified (GM) crops with a vengeance. Over half of the U.S. soybean crop, 25 percent… Read More

• Summer 2001

  European Responses to Biotechnology: Research, Regulation, and Dialogue

  Mark Cantley, Patrice Laget

  Modern biotechnology is the fruit of a massive surge of knowledge about the structure and functioning of living entities that has taken place over the past few decades. The surge continues unabated… Read More

• Summer 2001

  Forum – Summer 2001

  David Rejeski, Daniel M. Kammen, Henry Kelly, Robert Socolow, Steve Baer, Joel Darmstadter, Jean Somers Miller, Nancy S. Grasmick, Robert J. Michaels, Walter W. Carey, Jeff Smoller, Robert D. Stephens, William Pedersen, Serge Plattard, Tom Cardamone

  Energy policy John P. Holdren’s “Searching for a National Energy Policy” (Issues, Spring 2001) is the sort of sound assessment of national energy options that should be reviewed and digested… Read More

• Spring 1998

  Unleashing Innovation in Electricity Generation

  Richard Munson, Tina Kaarsberg

  This nation’s electric power industry is undergoing profound change. Just when lawmakers are replacing regulated monopolies with competitive entrepreneurs, a new generation of highly efficient, low-emission, modular power technologies is coming of… Read More

• Winter 1999

  Toward a Learning Economy

  Stephen A. Herzenberg, John A. Alic, Howard Wial

  More Americans now work in physicians’ offices than in auto plants. Roughly as many work in retailing as in all of manufacturing. The service sector now encompasses three-quarters of U.S. jobs, and… Read More

• Winter 2001

  Expanding the Mission of State Economic Development

  Barry Bozeman

  State technology-based economic development (TED) programs need an integrated dual agenda. Most states have two quite different and rarely joined economic agendas: an economic development agenda and an economic-social agenda. Through the… Read More

• Winter 2001

  Just Say No to Greenhouse Gas Emissions Targets

  Frank N. Laird

  The emissions targets of the Kyoto Protocol are dead, and the international community should let them rest in peace. Diplomatic necessity may require that the United Nations (UN) and signatory states to… Read More

• Spring 1999

  America’s Industrial Resurgence: How Strong, How Durable?

  David C. Mowery

  Reports in the late 1980s painted a gloomy picture of U.S. industrial competitiveness. The report of the MIT Commission on Industrial Productivity, perhaps the best known one, opined that “American industry is… Read More

• Fall 2000

  Suburban Decline: The Next Urban Crisis

  William H. Lucy, David L. Phillips

  The old urban crisis, characterized by the decline of central cities, still has not been addressed adequately by federal, state, and local policymakers. The problems facing central cities have proved extremely difficult… Read More

• Summer 2000

  Improving Communication About New Food Technologies

  David Greenberg, Mary Graham

  The debate about genetically engineered crops provides an early warning signal that the U.S. public is apprehensive about the benefits and risks associated with new food technologies. It also indicates that the… Read More

• Winter 2000

  Remaking the Academy in the Age of Information

  Jorge Klor de Alva

  Higher education around the world must undergo a dramatic makeover if it expects to educate a workforce in profound transformation. In 1950, only one in five U.S. workers was categorized as skilled… Read More

• Winter 2000

  From the Hill – Winter 2000

  Big increase for NIH boosts R&D spending in FY 2000 budget Bolstered by the largest-ever dollar increase in R&D spending for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), total federal support for R&D… Read More

• Fall 1998

  Drugs and Drug Policy: The Case for a Slow Fix

  Mark A. R. Kleiman

  “Fanaticism,” says Santayana, “consists of redoubling your efforts when you have lost sight of your aim.” An old Alcoholics Anonymous adage defines insanity as “continuing to do the same thing and expecting… Read More

• Winter 1999

  Environmental Alarmism: The Children’s Crusade

  Kenneth Chilton, Stephen Huebner

  The next generation of Americans has long been a focus of attention for policymakers and policy advocates, but in the past several years, children have been so frequently cited as the beneficiaries… Read More

• Winter 1999

  The Ehlers Report

  Kevin Finneran

  To be fair, one should be realistic about what can be achieved in a relatively brief overview of all U.S. science and technology (S&T) policy. When House Speaker Newt Gingrich directed the… Read More

• Winter 1999

  Sandia’s Science Park: A New Concept in Technology Transfer

  Kenneth M. Brown

  When Sandia National Laboratories announced plans for a new science and technology (S&T) park, it opened a new avenue for partnership with private industry. For years, the national laboratories have been urged… Read More

• Summer 1998

  No Productivity Boom for Workers

  Stephen S. Roach

  America’s love affair with the new technologies of the Information Age has never been more intense, but nagging questions remain about whether this passion is delivering on its promise to accelerate growth… Read More

• Fall 1997

  Federal Power Dinosaurs

  Richard Munson

  New power-generating technologies and low natural gas prices are spurring competition in the electricity market. This has led a growing number of lawmakers to want to help break up the utility industry’s… Read More

• Summer 1998

  Forum – Summer 1998

  Daryl E. Chubin, Jae Edmonds, Alan Goldhammer, Shirley M. Malcom, Heinz Riesenhuber, William F. O'Keefe, David Smith, Martin A. Smith, John C. Topping Jr., Amory B. Lovins, Bertram Wolfe, Donald W. Banner, Bill Budinger, David Peyton, Timothy B. Hackman, Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., David A. Rohy, Stuart A. Newman, Peter J. Auster, Bill Amaru, Jacques Koppel, Richard E. Ayres, Catherine D. Gaddy, F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Dana Rohrabacher, Howard Coble, James M. Jeffords

  Climate change Robert M. White’s “Kyoto and Beyond” and Rob Coppock’s “Implementing the Kyoto Protocol” (Issues, Spring 1998) are excellent overviews of the issues surrounding the Kyoto Protocol. As chairman… Read More