At this AEI conference, AEI resident scholar Andrew G. Biggs will discuss research on Social Security's incentives to delay retirement, while Estelle James, a pension consultant and former World Bank economist, will present findings on how Chile's 1980 pension reform affected labor force participation by seniors.

Scholars and policymakers agree that we need some way of adding up potential costs and benefits in terms of lives saved and lives lost, but they disagree about how to do the adding.

Now that the Great Debt Ceiling Deal has become the law of the land, it's time to consider what just happened to America, and in particular to America's armed forces. On the one hand, it's complicated. On the other hand, it's ugly.

The victory of feminism allows women like Elizabeth Gilbert to shape their own destinies. But there is a price for this victory: a solipsism so complete that Western women have lost the ability to empathize with women not only in the Islamic world, but also in China, India and other countries.

Gifts areeconomically efficient if theygiverecipientsthings they have never tried before but end up liking.Ifyou can't think ofwhat that might be, give cash.

Greens are good at pointing out potential problems and at pressuring government and industry to come up with solutions but when they are allowed to make policy, they usually mess it up.

Review of Trotsky: The Eternal Revolutionary, by Dmitri Volkogonov.