Experts in the News

"From a public policy perspective, regulators are closing in on Uber’s disruptive style of business, eyeing not only the tax revenue but also reining in a new, still-evolving business model. It is a learning process for both the regulators and the companies," wrote public finance fellow Joyce Beebe.

“It’s just a question of whether the amount that you give away is worth the jobs and the economic growth that you get back,” said McNair Center director Jennifer Rabb of a City Council-approved $6M tax break for an entrepreneurial community in west Houston. “Only time will tell on that.”

In an interview for “Listening to Leaders,” a new George W. Bush Presidential Center book, Secretary James A. Baker, III, our honorary chair, explained the values that guide him.

China’s so-called social credit system, a new high-tech program of mass surveillance and coercion aimed suppressing political dissent, could have a chilling effect on Americans doing business in China. “Very few American technology company people have been wanting to go to China recently," said China Studies scholar Steve Lewis.

How does Africa face different energy-use and climate-change challenges than the rest of the world, and what does that mean for global energy and climate strategy? Nonresident energy fellow Todd Moss provided an explanation.