Central Government Policies

The global race for skilled immigrants seeks to attract the best global workers. In the pursuit of these individuals, governments may incidentally ...

How much is a human life worth? Individuals, families, companies, and governments routinely place a price on human life. The calculations that unde...

An approach to reinvigorating economic competition that doesn’t break up corporate giants, but compels them to share their technology, data, and kn...

A revelatory examination of 150 years of sexuality-based discrimination against immigrants to the United States.Lesbians, prostitutes, women likely...

States of Credit provides the first comprehensive look at the joint development of representative assemblies and public borrowing in Europe during ...

Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation. Yet despite its importance, p...

Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destitut...

The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, h...

Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and l...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...

A rare insider’s account of the inner workings of the Japanese economy, and the Bank of Japan’s monetary policy, by a career central banker   The J...

Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individua...

Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth cen...

Improving State Voter Registration Databases outlines several actions that are needed to help make voter registration databases capable of sharing ...