The “veil of ignorance” is a moral reasoning device designed to promote impartial decision making by denying decision makers access to potentially biasing information about who will benefit most or le
Redesigning recruitment around evidence-based insights could help diversify an industry still dominated by men.
This paper argues that historical analysis, necessarily written with hindsight, often underestimates the uncertainties of the past. We call this tendency explanation bias.
This paper develops a theoretical understanding of the management of value conflicts in public innovation.
In expanding its program that lets residents vote on public spending, New York City is enlivening democracy and engaging the electorate.
The Pentagon is the headquarters of the single largest institution in America: the Department of Defense. The D.O.D. employs millions of Americans.
Managers often engage in risk-averse behavior, and economists, decision analysts, and managers treat risk aversion as a preference.
Protecting providers from competition is the enemy of efficiency and integrated mobility. It's an issue that New York City's congestion pricing will address.
We study the problem of allocating multiple items to two agents whose cardinal preferences are private information.
Soft power is the ability to affect others to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction and persuasion rather than coercion or payment.
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