This will be a full-day conference on the prospects and directions of reform in insurance regulation. Cosponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, Georgia State University, and the Risk Foundation, the conference will include papers by well-known insurance and financial services scholars. Subjects will include the optional federal...

What commercial entrepreneurs are to the American economy, social entrepreneurs are to social progress. Social entrepreneurship--the process of creating value by bringing together a unique package of resources to exploit an opportunity in pursuit of high social returns--is critical to American character and quality of life. Leaders in communities, nonprofit...

Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

A new study shows that public universities trounce the private ones in terms of the percentage return on investment.

The Treasury Department’s plan to reform the federal regulatory structure for financial services has focused unusual attention on the insurance sector, which is part of the financial services industry but regulated solely at the state level. Among other things, the Treasury recommended that insurers have the option, like banks, to...

Hurricane Katrina was an unprecedented natural disaster on American soil. Even beyond the tragic loss of life, the economic and political fallout has been huge. One little-noticed consequence is the coming battle in the courts over what could be at least $15 billion: will insurance companies find themselves liable under...

A summary of Bullock and Gaddie's study on voting rights progress in Georgia.