Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Five Myths about the World's Population Most serious demographers, economists and population specialists rarely use the term "overpopulation" because there is no clear demographic definition... |
| The Swedish Model Reassessed The period in which welfare economics were most strongly implemented in Sweden (the 1970s and 1980s) saw low rates of growth... |
| The Importance of Failure When we recognize business failure as an opportunity to learn, its value becomes paramount as it disseminates information to other actors in the sector about good and bad business practices... |
| The Democratic Transition Proliferation of elementary education is a strong indicator of imminent democratic gains... |
| Capitol Gains Between 1993 and 1998, Senate portfolios outperformed the market by approximately 12 percent a year, while House members averaged a still-impressive 6 percent over the market... |
| Taming the Fourth Branch of Government The Federal Register has increased in size from some 11,000 pages in the 1950s to about 80,000 currently -- 3,500 new policies have been adopted in the last three years alone... |
| How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Guarantees Work Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration have bought or guaranteed 95 percent of all new mortgages thus far in fiscal year 2011, compared with 40 percent in the early 2000s... |
| Five Myths about Healthy Eating A study published this year in the Archives of Internal Medicine found proximity to a grocery store or supermarket doesn't increase consumption of healthy food... |
| Principal-Agent Theory and the Welfare State In the United States, as many as 70 percent of voters can't name either of their state's senators... |
| Toward a Solvent U.S. Postal System Sixty-nine percent of Germany's formerly government-owned post office Deutsche Post is now privately owned... |
