Data can save lives. Without it, we wouldn’t know that smoking causes lung cancer and coronary disease, that helmets reduce death rates for motorcycle...
China has always valued education, reflecting its Confucian tradition, according to which one must excel scholastically to achieve high professional and...
Development economists often differ with one another, but they agree on this: The knowledge economy will be the foundation of every nation’s progress in...
Politicians and philanthropists often talk about abstract, lofty ideas such as sustainability and transformation through dialogue. So Bill Gates and Indian...
In game theory, the “price of anarchy” describes how individuals acting in their own self-interest within a larger system tend to reduce that larger...
Many politicians and commentators are calling for a big burst of spending on infrastructure. On his blog, my esteemed Bloomberg View colleague Tyler Cowen...
The Summer Olympic Games are in full swing in Rio. Every time the world’s top athletes gather for the Games, people everywhere have the opportunity not...
