Recent proposals for policy rules legislation have led to a fascinating replay of issues that have long been at the heart of the rules versus discretion debate.
This Intercept story on New Zealand’s surveillance of candidates for director general of the World Trade Organization sparked a related conversation yesterday on twitter about the exact scope of U.S. economic espionage.
Yesterday the Chairmen and Ranking members of the Senate Armed Services Committee (McCain and Reed) and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (Corker and Menendez) sent a noteworthy letter to Secretaries Kerry and Carter about growing Chinese hegemony in the South China Sea.
By tradition, a California governor’s second-term inaugural address is a good indicator of how the term-limited chief executive of America’s nation-state plans to ride off into the sunset. Pete Wilson’s second-term inaugural, delivered 20 years ago, included talk of shrinking government (lower taxes and less regulation) to spur economic growth.
In a previous post, I commented on the Nobody-But-Us (NOBUS) view of the world. My original post says that the real technical question raised by NOBUS is how long nobody-but-us access can be kept for a given proposed system.
The NCAA basketball tournament has started, and I hope I’ve picked my brackets as well as I predicted the outcome of this month’s meeting of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a component of the UN’s World Health Organization that evaluates the likelihood that various chemicals cause cancer.
In this edition of Eureka, we’ll look at Brown’s three energy proposals – their feasibility, and what they mean both for California and for the Governor’s legacy. Eureka was created to serve as an occasional discussion of the policy, political and economic issues confronting California. Like the Golden State motto from which this forum’s title was borrowed, the goal here is one of discovery – identifying underlying problems and offering reasonable and common-sense reforms for America’s great nation-state.
On my flight from Chicago to Phoenix on Thursday, I finished The Boys in the Boat. It's subtitled "Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics." I highly recommend it.
Scott Alexander, about whom both David Friedman and co-blogger Bryan Caplan have raved, has a lengthy book review of David's The Machinery of Freedom. As I write this, there are 479 comments on his post and I looked only at about the first 100 or so to see if anyone was making the point I want to make. I didn't find it, so I'll make it here.
Hoover fellow Richard Epstein discusses Ferguson and the Department of Justice's report that exonerated Darren Wilson, but the report still blames racism for unrest in Ferguson.
Hoover fellow Lanhee Chen discusses King vs Burwell and recommends posiible solutions or compromises in case the Supreme Court rules for the plaintiffs.
Campbell Harvey of Duke University talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about his research evaluating various investment and trading strategies and the challenge of measuring their effectiveness.
As of late last year, Thomas W. Gilligan, 60, dean of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, thought he was in the final posting of his career in military, governmental, and educational leadership.
The Hoover Institution, a public policy research center in California's Stanford University which focuses on the study of economics, politics, history, political economy and international affairs, has just announced Mike Franc as its new Washington, DC programs director.
Stanford faculty experts say that security concerns were the dominant factor in the outcome of Israel's election this week. Political and religious fault lines in Israeli society contributed to the tone and results of the campaign.
Stephen Haber, a professor at Stanford University, speaks at the Association of Mexican Banks annual convention in Acapulco, Mexico, on Friday, March 20, 2015. Mexico's 2015 forecast for gross domestic product for 2015 was cut to 2.6 percent from 3.3 percent in a report by Barclays on concerns for public spending and lower oil prices.
The teachers and administrators in this rural Long Island district do not mince words when asked about Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposal to tie teacher evaluations more closely to test scores.
