Designing Innovative Policy to Confront Today's Challenges

This course will examine current policy challenges in the U.S. with a focus on the role of the federal government in addressing them. Taught with consideration of economic principles, the course will discuss articulated rationales for government involvement in issues, the tools typically available to address them, the history of some selected policy challenges, and proposed ways forward. A focus will be on whether existing institutions have kept up with changes in the U.S. economy and society. The course will incorporate the Trump Administration's approach as well, likely in real time.