Valuing ecosystem services
Geoffrey Heal, coauthor of a National Academy of Sciences report that is helping government agencies assess the costs and benefits of ecosystem services, talks about environmental conservation.
Making globalization fair
Joseph Stiglitz, a prominent critic of globalization's shortcomings, offers practical ideas for extending its benefits.
Fixing Social Security
Progressive Personal Accounts — a new plan for reforming the U.S. public pension system — could satisfy Democrats and Republicans.
Making health care markets work
Dean Glenn Hubbard explains five reforms to the U.S. health care system that may save as much as $60 billion a year while extending coverage and increasing consumer choice.
Small loans on a large scale
Is microfinance the key to ending poverty in the developing world? New research findings could help microfinance institutions lower their interest rates and reach more borrowers.
New York City’s trans fat ban
Nachum Sicherman, who has researched cost-benefit analysis in medical decision making, delves into the economic angles of the city’s controversial public health regulation.
Preserving the Delaware
Analyzing the river as an inventory control system yields a solution to an ecological problem.