Econ Focus

Cover Story: Downtown is Dead. Long Live Downtown.
America is busy rebuilding its downtowns. But these are not the downtowns of yesterday.

Cover Story: Democracy and Other Failures
The theory of public choice helps explain why we get stuck with so many bad economic policies. Or does it?

Cover Story: Academic Alternatives
The theory of school choice sounds great, but it remains controversial. Now, evidence from programs like the one in Milwaukee is beginning to move the discussion from the theoretical to the practical.

Cover Story: Options on the Outs
The popularity of employee stock options is expected to wane with the adoption of a new accounting rule