We begin by asking what would happen in a completely free market. Then, we ask whether government intervention of some sort ...

Whether consciously or automatically, cost-benefit analyses are a fact of life ... such as those that may impact our health? Take, for example, preventive cancer screenings.

Under the Biden Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adopted updated models to estimate the social cost of carbon (SCC), a metric intended to quantify the economic impact of ...

These five changes would put us on the road to achieving that and, notably, would be net cost-neutral or cost-saving.

OpenAI introduced its most advanced models to date, o3 and o4-mini. These models represent a major step forward in the field ...

An examination of recent litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) challenging allegedly ...

Trump’s dressings-down are a metaphor for a US foreign policy that is erratic, politicized and awash in conspiracy theories.

As the world approaches the horizon of AGI, it would be misguided to choose problems that are predicated on an assumption ...

Developing nations face mounting fiscal dilemmas when public funds are channeled into costly AI initiatives. Rwanda, for ...

But do the benefits of such treatments outweigh the substantial ecological and social risks and costs? This question should be comprehensively considered in a cost/benefit analysis for each ...

The Republicans' tax cuts combined with their spending plans will help the rich and cost the poor, spiraling the debt and ...