Science & Technology
Innovation and its consequences.
- The Quiet Death of the Kyoto Protocol Samuel Thernstrom 11/05/2009
- Reading the climate news in recent weeks, one might start to wonder who won the last election.
- Coase vs. the Neo-Progressives Jeff Eisenach and Adam Thierer 10/28/2009
- Fifty years ago this month a seminal paper challenged the prevailing intellectual orthodoxy on markets, technology, and regulation. We would be wise to revisit it today.
- Bleeding Biotech James V. DeLong 10/24/2009
- Given all the hopes for medical progress that ride on biotech progress, one might assume that Congress and the administration would seek ways to encourage investment. One would be wrong.
- Coburn vs. the Political Scientists Philip I. Levy 10/23/2009
- It would be an enormous mistake to defund political science research.
- The Copenhagen Climate Extortion Jon Entine 10/23/2009
- Going into the Copenhagen climate change summit, the delegates appear to be competing over who can offer the most ambitious and least realistic targets.
- Green Revolution in the Balance Jon Entine 10/03/2009
- A battle is developing over food security and research into bio-engineered crops is in the crosshairs.
- Our Uncrowded Planet Ronald Bailey 10/01/2009
- Imminent doom has been declared again. But don’t worry, neo-Malthusian predictions of overpopulation are wrong.
- How to Think About Net Neutrality James V. DeLong 09/26/2009
- History suggests the best course is not to borrow trouble, as the old phrase goes, but to let the system 'develop itself in its own way,' and act only in response to actual problems.
- Economists Are Beginning to See the Light Tim Worstall 09/22/2009
- A small diversion into one of the tinier byways of the hugely complex international economy demonstrates the miracle of markets.
- Baumol’s Solution to the Baumol Effect Tim Worstall 09/10/2009
- Increasing productivity in healthcare is difficult but not impossible. Here’s how.