Leaders would do well to develop a more sophisticated understanding of "fear" and "love."

Paul L. Joskow is president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and presently on leave from MIT, where he is the Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics and Management. His lecture will review the broad experience with deregulation, regulatory reform, and industry restructuring in the United States over the...

This AEI event examined what can be learned from the research on geographic variation in health spending.

In his timely new monograph, Deregulation: Where Do We Go from Here? (AEI Press, October 2009), Paul L. Joskow, MIT economics professor and president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, argues that the crisis in the financial market should not become an excuse for reversing beneficial regulatory reform initiatives in other sectors.

The current system of supplying vaccines appears to be in a state of crisis. While immunization rates among children are high, there have been periodic shortages of vaccines. In addition, there are few incentives to develop new vaccines, and a declining number of manufacturers. That has raised concerns that we...

In this timely monograph, Paul L. Joskow argues that the crisis in the financial market should not become an excuse for reversing beneficial regulatory reforms in other sectors.

Recent events surrounding the proposed acquisitions of U.S. assets by foreign investors have brought into focus the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the Exon-Florio provisions of the Defense Production Act, which allow the executive branch to halt the acquisition by foreign firms of U.S. operations...

Many experts today insist that a patient’s race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. The notion that physicians are biased against minorities––overtly or subtly––has acquired considerable weight in both academic literature and the popular press. In their new book The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006), authors...