, believes that most governments have gone much too far in their spending, taxation, and regulation. The dominant theme in these … especially with the appropriate range of government: which areas represent useful public policy and which are unnecessary … form of monetary policy. Barro argues that government should provide markets with a stable nominal framework and then stay …

suggest different ways for government to affect individual well-being. In Happiness, Bruno Frey, emphasizing empirical … happiness research. Turning to policy implications, Frey describes how government can provide the conditions under which people …

of action on climate change over the past two decades, repudiating regulation and promoting only ineffectual voluntary … markets and viewed government action as anathema. The most notorious result of this hands-off approach was the financial … meltdown of late 2008; but strict reliance on free markets also hobbled government policymakers' response to the challenge of …

of action on climate change over the past two decades, repudiating regulation and promoting only ineffectual voluntary … markets and viewed government action as anathema. The most notorious result of this hands-off approach was the financial … meltdown of late 2008; but strict reliance on free markets also hobbled government policymakers' response to the challenge of …

rights in the fisheries to the historic enclosures and clearances of common land in England and Scotland and finds many …