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How Patents Contribute to High Drug Prices

How Patents Contribute to High Drug Prices

Patents covering drugs selected for Medicare price negotiation show how patents influence drug prices.

Ensuring Education Is Worth the Cost

Ensuring Education Is Worth the Cost

Regulatory efforts to help students identify cost-effective education programs meet mixed responses.

Designing the New Digital Dollar

Designing the New Digital Dollar

Scholar evaluates ways to structure and regulate retail CBDCs to promote consumer protection.

Promoting Best Practices for U.S. Regulatory Analysis

Promoting Best Practices for U.S. Regulatory Analysis

Benefit-cost analysis experts advocate changes to a draft update of OMB Circular A-4.

Supplementing Dietary Supplement Regulation

Supplementing Dietary Supplement Regulation

Experts recommend measures to improve the regulation of dietary supplements.

Assessing Algorithms for Public Good

Assessing Algorithms for Public Good

Requiring algorithmic impact assessments would promote responsible decision-making and inform future policies.

New Technology Requires New Regulatory Ambitions

New Technology Requires New Regulatory Ambitions

In the face of new technologies, a nonprofit auto safety body provides an institutional model for elevating public protection ambitions.

Risk Identification in AI Regulation

Risk Identification in AI Regulation

Daniel Ho discusses the importance of identifying emerging risks for effective artificial intelligence regulation.

Can Emotional Support Animals Be Service Animals?

Can Emotional Support Animals Be Service Animals?

Scholars discuss how individuals experiencing mental health issues should access emotional support animals.

The Doomed Quest for Individual Privacy

The Doomed Quest for Individual Privacy

Scholar argues that relying primarily on rights to protect privacy will fail to empower individuals or counter societal harms.

Germany’s Success in Community Development

Germany’s Success in Community Development

German models of communal housing development may offer solutions to U.S. housing problems.

Supercharging Electric Grid Interconnection

Supercharging Electric Grid Interconnection

FERC publishes final rule aimed at expediting the interconnection of new power plants.