A theoretical rationale for the use of information markets in decision making tasks is provided.

The precautionary principle can be paralyzing, while in contrastbalancing costs against benefitsmay offer the foundation of an approach for making difficult decisions.

In a new book entitled “Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts,” Vern McKinley provides the most detailed account yet of the government’s decision-making process during these momentous events.

Editor’s note: Jim Manzi is the author of “Uncontrolled: the Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society.” He is the founder and chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, a global provider of predictive analytics software. Manzi is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at...

While it may be harmful and disingenuous to insist upon a single algorithm or best approach to practicing medicine, it could be helpful to at least provide clear guidance so that physicians would know to avoid certain therapeutic approaches.

Congress has consistently rejected efforts to revise health, safety, and environmental statutes to increase the consideration of economic effects in rulemaking.

This conference was the first in a series devoted to examining the place of neuroscience in our understanding of the human person.

In a speech on December 3, Paul H. O'Neill, chairman and CEO of Alcoa, addressed the role of presidential leadership in the debate over global climate change.