Amit Seru argues that overuse of emergency measures has weakened accountability and distorted incentives.

The scars of school shootings often endure for years, shaping mental health, educational trajectories, and economic futures.

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The SIEPR Policy Forum on “AI & the Economy” brought together leading experts, policymakers and scholars to explore the rapidly advancing technology’s risks and opportunities, its current and future impacts, and the policies needed in the U.S. and globally to ensure that AI-driven economic prosperity is widely shared. In this fireside chat, Fei-Fei Li, founding co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), offered insights into AI’s trajectory and her belief that AI’s next frontier is spatial intelligence. Neale Mahoney, the Trione Director of SIEPR and the TG Wijaya Professor of Economics in the Stanford School of Humanities & Sciences, moderated. For more information about this event, held on Nov. 20, 2025, and the work of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), visit http://siepr.stanford.edu/events/policy-forum/ai-economy

Here's a set of affordability ideas that reside at the intersection of good politics and good policy.

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