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In the aftermath of the Texas power failures in February, a number commenters found confirmation that, amazingly, they had been right about ...

Pity China's statisticians, who seem caught in the middle between the facts of arithmetic and the demands of government. The recent kerf...

I am now in my 35th year as Managing Editor of the J ournal of Economic Perspectives . The JEP is published by the American Economic Associa...

Reducing carbon emissions will require a number of different intertwined steps, and  one  of them is commonly being referred to as "ele...

Jeff Bezos is stepping down from daily management tasks as chief executive officer of Amazon , the company he founded in 1994, although he w...

In the early 19th century, various cities in Scotland and Ireland had established their own police forces. Sir Robert Peel is typically cre...

I've found that the word "regulation" is a sort of Rorschach test on which many people project their broader political beliefs...