Some interventions can make things worse, via the law of unintended consequences. The larger the intervention, the more severe the possible negative consequences.
The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business
UPDATED: Jul. 9, 11:20 p.m. If you're driving and happen to kill a pedestrian, you may, of course, be slapped with manslaughter charges. On the oth...
William Easterly | Posted 07.20.2009 | World
More in sorrow than in anger, I see that this utopian social engineering craze could encourage people with guns to use them.
Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort | Posted 10.04.2009 | Politics
Academics are laggards, eternal followers that lack the ability to innovate and continue to inhabit a world of quantitative models oftentimes not descriptive of today's reality.
Adriana Dunn | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The U.S. political system is no longer inaccessible and shrouded in secrecy. The prime example of this new attitude was yesterday's TED@State talk.
Jeffrey Sachs | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
Sub-Saharan Africa faces a constellation of special challenges, with greater or lesser impact in different parts of the region. These challenges should be addressed forthrightly and in an integrated manner.
Dennis Whittle | Posted 08.08.2009 | World