A large group of developing countries did relatively well during the Great Recession, thanks to the broader room for countercyclical macroeconomic policies, and the world economy will continue to be more dependent on the developing world than any we have known in history.

A Civic Scientist Précis on Robert F. Curl Jr., Ph.D., Sir Harold Kroto, Ph.D., and the late Richard Smalley, Ph.D.

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The political institutions that established Venezuela's democracy in the 1960s were deliberately set up to generate a cooperative equilibrium with low stakes of power. The recent political reforms, increasing the stakes of power, have stimulated a complete breakdown in cooperation and a highly polarized political system.

Experts George Zodrow and John Diamond explore options for Texas tax reform to raise state-level educational revenues.