Public Policy

Can Industrial Policy Help Revive Struggling Regions?

Cameron LaPoint

A new paper co-authored by Yale SOM’s Cameron LaPoint looks at an effort in 1980s Japan to narrow economic inequalities between geographic regions, in order to understand the potential impact of the similar U.S. CHIPS and Science Act, enacted in 2022.

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  • Is Government the Key to Prosperity?

    Jacob S. Hacker

    Yale’s Jacob Hacker argues that society needs both healthy markets and effective government.

  • How Should We Think about the Debt?

    David Wessel

    David Wessel talks about the complex task of helping policymakers and the public to take a balanced, long-term view of spending and the deficit.
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    What's at Stake?

    It’s in the nature of political campaigns to reduce complex issues to simple declarations—good or bad, for or against. We spoke with a number of Yale faculty to get the big picture on trade, jobs, healthcare, and other economic issues that have come up in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

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  • Frame or Get Framed

    David Bach

    Yale’s David Bach writes that the legal battle between Apple and the FBI illustrates the strategic importance of issue framing in public debates.

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  • Can Operations Research Help Find Terrorists?

    Edward H. Kaplan

    Yale SOM’s Edward H. Kaplan uses queuing algorithms to estimate how many terror cells exist and determine how to efficiently combat them.

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  • Time to End Confrontations Over Federal Borrowing Limits

    Jeffrey E. Garten

    In a Foreign Policy op-ed, Yale SOM Dean Emeritus Jeffrey Garten writes that the recurrent threats to force a U.S. debt default could end in catastrophe, and it’s time for Congress to end them permanently.

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  • The Nobel Prize in Economics and the Dangers of Foreign Aid

    Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

    Professor A. Mushfiq Mobarak argues that claims about the impact of foreign aid should be tested with careful empirical study.

  • Are Public-Private Partnerships the Best Way to Provide Government Services?

    Bertrand Quelin

    HEC’s Bertrand Quelin says that such projects are generally successful—but they aren’t always perceived that way.

  • Putting the Iran Nuclear Deal in Context

    Paul Bracken

    Professor Paul Bracken, a leading security strategist and author of The Second Nuclear Age, discusses the Iran nuclear deal.

  • Will Openness and Transparency Strengthen Democracy in the EU?

    Alberto Alemanno

    HEC Paris's Alberto Alemanno on what the EU's commitment to openness means in practice.