New Perspectives on Regulation

New research in the social sciences has yielded insights with important implications for the government's role in the economy. New Perspectives on Regulation is aimed primarily at citizens and public servants, including our leaders in Washington, who are grappling with a crisis that conventional approaches didn't predict and don't yet seem able to solve. As an experiment in reconnecting academia to our broader democracy, this book is one piece of the mission that the Tobin Project has undertaken: to invigorate public policy debate by rededicating academic work to the pursuit of solutions to society's great problems.

Rawi Abdelal is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Tom Baker is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edward Balleisen is Associate Professor of History at Duke University.

Michael S. Barr, now Assistant Secretary of Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury, is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Marc Eisner is the Henry Merritt Wriston Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.

Michael Greenstone, Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors, is the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David A. Moss is the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard Business School.

Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

John G. Ruggie is the Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs and Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government, as well as Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. From 1997 to 2001 he was Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Advisor for strategic planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has been Dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Eldar Shafir is Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000.

Rawi Abdelal is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

Tom Baker is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edward Balleisen is Associate Professor of History at Duke University.

Michael S. Barr, now Assistant Secretary of Financial Institutions at the U.S. Treasury, is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Marc Eisner is the Henry Merritt Wriston Chair of Public Policy and Professor of Government at Wesleyan University.

Michael Greenstone, Chief Economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisors, is the 3M Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

David A. Moss is the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard Business School.

Sendhil Mullainathan is a Professor of Economics at Harvard University.

John G. Ruggie is the Kirkpatrick Professor of International Affairs and Weil Director of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government, as well as Affiliated Professor in International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. From 1997 to 2001 he was Assistant Secretary-General and Chief Advisor for strategic planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has been Dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

Eldar Shafir is Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs in the Department of Psychology and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, and Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He is also the co-founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia. In 2001, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information. Stiglitz was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, during the Clinton administration, and served as CEA chairman from 1995-97. He then became Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000.