This book addresses the most prominent policy issues raised by advertising--competition, consumer information, children, ad bans, and free speech.

Weisbrod examines the causes and consequences of medical research and suggests an appropriate role for it in the larger social system.

Our data show that land prices were more volatile than house prices during the recent boom/bust cycle. In areas where land was inexpensive in 2000, the land share of property value jumped during the boom, and this rise in the land share was a useful predictor of the subsequent crash in house...

This paper proposes a measure of the distributional burden of servicing debt Using alternative assumptions about financing, we assess the distributional burden of the current level of government debt and the burden of future debt projected to accumulate under current law, current policy, and the...

Given the slow growth of labor productivity in recent years, some have argued that the boost from information technology may have run its course Our analysis points to a less pessimistic conclusion While projections of economic developments are always difficult, our judgment is that "No, the...

This book examines the effects of government intervention on the operations of the freight transportation industry.

The authors of this primer believe that the current approach to federal regulation urgently needs repair.

This paper examines policies to index Social Security taxes or benefits to changes in the ratio of workers to beneficiaries, allowing for auto-correction for changing demographic factors.