This study tests whether policy narratives designed to increase support for obesity-reducing public policies should explicitly acknowledge individual responsibility while emphasizing social, physical, and economic (social) determinants of obesity. We use a web-based, randomized experiment with a nationally representative sample of American adults (n = 718) to test hypotheses derived from theory...

Multiple research studies have examined the role of the undergraduate engineering curriculum on students’ innovation capabilities. The majority of these studies have used crosssectional samples to compare students at the beginning and end of their college careers, and most results have shown that seniors outperform freshmen. In the following paper, we use a combination of cross-sectional and lo...

Although this is a short book, 183 pages inclusive of index and bibliography, it covers a lot of ground. Drawing on her doctoral dissertation, Sandye Gloria-Palermo has undertaken a history-of-thought survey of the Austrian tradition from Menger to Lachmann. In the process, she considers the works of Böhm-Bawerk, Wieser, Mises, Hayek, Rothbard, Kirzner, and Lachmann—a tall order, to say the lea...