The phenomenon of technological learning has been observed across a wide spectrum of energy and environmental technologies. Quantitative modeling of experience curves has become an increasingly common method of representing endogenous technical change in long-term integrated assessment models...

We set out to determine if independent inventors can be considered 'heroes' or 'hobbyists', that is, if they produce the most or the least influential inventions in a product category. We study patented inventions by independent and firm-based inventors by comparing patents along four...

This paper reviews the regulatory history for nitrogen oxides (NOx) pollutant emissions from stationary sources,primarily in coal-fired power plants. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) is one of the six criteria pollutants regulated by the 1970 Clean Air Act where National Ambient Air Quality Standards were...

Stephen Skowronek's The Politics Presidents Make argues that presidential administrations can be organized into sequences defined by distinctive paradigms of governance: one president defines or “reconstructs” a new approach to government (e.g. Jefferson, Jackson, Roosevelt) one or more...

Statutes dominate our legal system, but we have no theory about the best way to design them. The process that the U.S. Congress follows is haphazard and obscure. Any Member can introduce a bill. There are no requirements about who can draft the bill or how the basic decisions that it embodies...

Because federalism grants partial autonomy to subunits of a nation, it has potentially broad implications for a system of international law that is centered around the integrity of nation states. Military intervention by foreign nations might seem more justifiable if its purpose is to protect...

When we speak of depoliticizing an administrative agency, what we mean is insulating it from direct presidential control. The resulting distinction between executive and independent agencies, however, is essentially invisible to Congress. All the mechanisms of control that Congress exercises...

This is a review of Jody Freeman & Martha Minow, eds., Government By Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy (Harvard Univ., 2009). After summarizing and analyzing the individual contributions to the volume, and delineating their disagreements, the review proceeds to identify areas of...

Worker democracy has long been a preferred policy in socialist thought, and has been championed in the context of capitalist systems as well. Arguments in its favor are often based on an analogy to the advantages of democracy in the political system. This article proposes a different rationale...