Monthly Archives: April 2011

Energy in America: The New York Times Goes In-Depth

With so much green news reported each week, it’s sometimes easy to miss a great story. Well, we mentioned two stories last week, and today we want to highlight a series from The New York Times. The NYTimes recently published a number of articles designed to help give readers a perspective on the country’s currentRead… Read more »

Complexity Economics and the Almost-Shutdown of 2011

Like many of you I spent my evenings over the last week watching the news networks as various experts debated the looming shutdown. I heard the various economic arguments around the budget battles and I was constantly struck by the thought that decisions concerning peoples’ lives and security were being decided by a 19th centuryRead… Read more »

Political law links today: J&J FCPA case, disclosure and democracy, no smooth sledding for VT CFR, the Waters case, and more

JOHNSON & JOHNSON & FCPA. Another FCPA settlement announced. DOJ Release. ”‘Today, Johnson & Johnson has admitted that its subsidiaries, employees and agents paid bribes to publicly-employed health care providers in Greece, Poland and Romania, and that kickbacks were paid on behalf of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary companies to the former government of Iraq underRead… Read more »

The need for micro-participation

A theme I’ve been returning to on a regular basis in the talks I’ve been giving lately has been about the need for government to make participation easier. I’ve blogged in my usual half-assed manner about the participation deficit before, and it strikes me that this is an important issue that is both not goingRead… Read more »