“Bureaucrats Take On Bureaucracy”
The Sacramento Bee profiles an effort to take on California’s convoluted job classification system.
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Obsolete Law Solutions
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The Future of the Individual: Video Excerpts
Watch presentations from Philip Howard, Stephen Goldsmith, Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, and Robert Litan from Common Good’s November 6 forum.
Posted 1/9/15 Read More ›
Philip Howard in the Daily Beast: Modern Law Bars People from Doing What’s Right
Read Philip’s new essay on why “it’s time to confront the incoherence of our legal utopia.”
Posted 12/29/14 Read More ›
Bob Litan on the Need for Sunsets, Review Commissions
Brookings economist echoes Common Good prescriptions on how to revive individual responsibility in the economy.
Posted 12/24/14 Read More ›
Daily Beast: “The Rule of Nobody” Among Books with the “Best Big Ideas of 2014”
The magazine “scours the shelves to find the year’s best ideas between hardcovers” and finds Philip Howard’s newest work.
Posted 12/11/14 Read More ›
Radically Simplify Law
Philip Howard calls for restoring human responsibility as the activating force of law and regulation. (Post includes a 12/9/14 update.)
Posted 12/9/14 Read More ›
