Net Gains: A Pro-Growth Digital Agenda

A general pessimism over technological progress has crept into the national dialogue. Everywhere one turns there is a new article about how robots are stealing our jobs, how all the gains from innovation go to the rich, or how all...

By Robert Atkinson Doug Brake

Spring 2015, No. 36 – 14 MIN READ

Sandbox Thinking

We need our regulatory state to be more agile and more innovative. Why not take a page from technology itself?

By Jessica Rosenworcel

Fall 2014, No. 34 – 9 MIN READ

Managing the Big Bang: The Regulator’s Dilemma

Governments must recognize severe limits in their ability to shape the destination, if not the trajectory, of disruptive technologies.

By Larry Downes

Fall 2014, No. 34 – 15 MIN READ

Beyond Ideology: A Results-Based Approach

“Results-based regulation" is an approach that can sidestep the problems of an ideologically driven regulatory regime and ensure that we never lose sight of the purpose of regulation.

By John W. Mayo

Fall 2014, No. 34 – 11 MIN READ