carey and friel suggest that we turn to knowledge developed in the field of public administration, especially new public governance, to better understand the process of implementing health in all policies (hiap). in this commentary, i claim that theories from the policy studies bring a broader view of the policy process, complementary to that of new public governance. drawing on the policy stud...

A fair number of social scientists, several journals such as the Journal of Economy and Philosophy, the Journal of Behavioral Economics, and the Journal of Economic Psychology, a new section of the American Economics Association, and several symposia (such as the one published by the Journal ofBusiness in 1086) are attempting to develop a new paradigm tha t will expand the range of sociological...

T he fundamental di lemma of health policy is that the system is so interdependent that apparently no one part can be fixed without fixing them all. But efforts to change the system as a whole, to finance insurance expansion by reducing waste, or to improve quality by restructuring delivery arouse the sleeping dogs of health care. Each economic interest group knows its own interest and knows ho...

This paper reviews evidence regarding the distrib~tional impa~t of inflation on p~rchasing power, iucome, and weglth, and analyzes the impact of anti-inflation poLicy and its interaction with distribution policy. The evidence suggests that recent inflation has worsened relative economic position of low-in~ome families. A contractionary fis~glmonetary policy, wh~ch seems likely to be'the keyston...

We present a ping-pong-playing robot that learns to improve its swings with human advice. Our method learns a reward function over the joint space of task and policy parameters T ×P , so the robot can explore policy space more intelligently in a way that trades off exploration vs. exploitation to maximize the total cumulative reward over time. Multimodal stochastic polices can also easily be le...

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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta E C O N O M I C R E V I E W Third Quarter 2003 I t is a great pleasure to attend this conference on monetary policy and learning and enjoy the many excellent papers presented here. I am very grateful for the opportunity to speak to this distinguished audience of researchers and policymakers, and I hope my remarks will stimulate some further discussion. I will tal...

This paper is a high-level technical overview of the impact of cryptography on the computing and communications industries, with emphasis on the implications of the Administration’s recent cryptography policy initiatives. It represents the best judgement of its author, and does not necessarily reflect the position of AT&T or any other organization. We argue that unless a fundamental change is m...

To compare the general equilibrium effects of common environmental policies, I develop a model of directed technical change with endogenous exploration for depletable fossil resources, endogenous innovation in technologies for accessing renewable resources, and endogenous innovation in technologies for converting fossil and renewable resources into energy services. I find that a supply restrict...

In theory, the interaction between the worlds of environmental science and policy may seem straightforward. From a realm outside politics and power, scientists provide relevant knowledge about nature upon which informed policy decisions could be based. However, in reality this linear model tends to be replaced by a much more complex relationship where the distinction between facts and values, k...