From the Cover
Education
What Constitutes “Discrimination” in College Admissions?
Universities regularly accept applicants for reasons besides academic merit, so why do diversity efforts draw special criticism? PDF
Environment
The Climate-Change Doomsday Trap
Given human nature, claims of a looming Armageddon are likely to move humanity closer to an environmental tipping point. PDF
Briefly Noted
Housing
Recalibrating Local Politics to Increase the Supply of Housing
State planning mandates and development-rights auctions can bolster pro-housing factions in local government. PDF
Features
Environment
De-Sludging California’s Prop 65
The carcinogen disclosure requirement has not been shown to provide benefits that justify its high cost. PDFRedefining “Waters of the United States”
Can the Trump administration constrain wetland regulation? PDFFive Questions for 3,508 Economists
The signatories of the recent “Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends” must address some important issues. PDF
Health & Medicine
Properly Valuing Gene Replacement Therapy
The revolutionary drugs are expensive, but they offer cures to difficult and costly lifetime conditions. PDF
In Memorium
An Intellectual Odyssey Cut Short
Robert H. Nelson, 1944–2018 PDF
In Memoriam
The Empirical Revolutionary
Alan Krueger, 1960–2019 PDF
