If budget planning requires gathering information from people who may not always have the incentive to disclose that information, then the principles of mechanism design can definitely be of use in such planning.

In an industry with highly sequential innovation, it may be better for society to scrap patents altogether than try to tighten them.

Prediction is certainly a valuable goal in science, but not the only one. Explanation is also important, and there are plenty of sciences that do a lot of explaining and not much predicting.

I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.

The Miccosukee facility in Miami only offers bingo, poker, and video gambling machines. Because it does not have slot machines or table games, the Miccosukee tribe doesn't need an agreement with the state. The Miccosukees only answer to the federal government.

There has to be a national consensus. We cannot legislate without overwhelming national consensus that religious and communal groups should be totally banned from politics.

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years.

We must get government out of the way and help foster an environment where small businesses are free to grow and create jobs.