A college education has been the key to higher real wages and living standards. But as college enrollment has increased, so has the difficulty in paying for higher education.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

The Copenhagen Consensus endorses President Bush's priorities when it comes to global welfare.

It was another exciting trading session yesterday for the 30 stocks of the Dow Jones industrial average.

Economists ranked HIV/AIDS and the promotion of free trade above strategies to alleviate global warming, paralleling President George W. Bush's priorities for international aid.

Arecent study on health care disparities provides the latest comprehensive summary of what can be measured, if not a practical guide to what we could, or should, do about it.

The health policy debate in the 2008 presidential campaign year needs to move beyond the well-rehearsed pattern of the past, which focused primarily on how to expand insurance coverage to more Americans and find (or hide) the amount of money needed to pay for more health care services. Expanding the...