Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...

A framework for understanding both bad public sector performance and good through surveys of public officals - and for presenting the results to policymakers in a format that leads to more informed choices about public sector reform