A group of Stanford economists is pressing the government to streamline the process for doling out $7.2 billion in economic stimulus money slated for high-speed Internet development.

Tagged: economics, internet, Business

Two Caribbean islands, alike in nearly every way, provide insight into what factors lead to a country’s economic success or failure.

Tagged: economics, Business

The use of sophisticated and expensive imaging technology has mushroomed over the last decade, raising the need for cost-conscious health insurers to improve their ability to measure the technology's costs and benefits. So say medical school researchers, who found that the federal government picked up the tab for twice as many magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scans in 2005 than 10 years prior.

Tagged: economics, imaging, Human Health, Humanities & Sciences

Gavin Jones, a professor of English, discusses how literature can provide us with an emotionally resonant and complex understanding of poverty, and David Grusky, a professor of sociology, discusses why reducing poverty is in the collective interest.

Tagged: economics, literature, poverty, Arts & Creativity, International Issues, Humanities & Sciences

Some praised Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, others argued taxes will have to be raised to overcome the current economic crisis. A panel of economists worked to help alumni “Understand the Financial Crisis and What It Means to You.”

Tagged: economics, financial crisis, International Issues, Business

"The U.S. economy, and much of the rest of the developed world, is in the midst of the collapse of an asset bubble fueled, in the main, by excess leverage. . . "

Tagged: bailout, economics, financial crisis, International Issues, Business

With John McCain and Barack Obama throwing political punches over how to deal with the country's financial crisis, you might think a face-off between a pair of their economic advisers would get ugly.

Think again.

Tagged: democracy, economics, International Issues, Public Service, Humanities & Sciences

The old adage that you get what you pay for really is true when it comes to that most ephemeral of products: bottled wine.

Tagged: brain imaging, economics, marketing, psychology, Business

Stanford professors and an army of 13 graduate and undergraduate students have found that there are major differences in the “bang for the buck” from different technologies proposed for reducing the California’s greenhouse gas emissions by 170 million metric tons a year.

Tagged: California, climate change, conservation, economics, Precourt Institute for Energy, Environment & Sustainability, Public Service, Engineering

An environmental economist whose work incorporates political considerations, Professor Lawrence Goulder has studied the outlines of a range of emissions-reduction plans, including flexible, market-based approaches.

Tagged: climate change, economics, Environment & Sustainability, Humanities & Sciences