Is the current crisis the result of a failure of capitalism or a failure of government policy?

Technological developments have driven the obesity plague, but technological change may also be more successful at reducing obesity than attempts to change people's eating and exercising habits have been.

The rise in obesity has generated enormous popular interest and policy concern in developing countries, where it is rapidly becoming the major public health problem facing such nations.

Proper intelligence reorganziation would include an independent director of central intelligence, independent national security agencies, and a non-FBI domestic intelligence agency.

Theterrorist threat to the United States, coupled with the lack of coordination among our domestic intelligence agencies and the shortcomings of the FBI,argues compellingly for reform.

This monograph seeks to explain the expansion of intellectual property law over the last half-century, focusing in particular on the rapid growth that began with the 1976 Copyright Act.

The recent tsunami in Southeast Asia showed how a relatively inexpensive early warning system could have saved tens of thousands of lives. Tsunamis, of course, are only one of many potential catastrophes that could afflict mankind. In this Joint Center lecture, Judge Richard Posner examines a host of catastrophes that...