Milken Institute Review Reports & Articles Books Search by title, topic, author Milken Institute Review Reports & Articles Books Search by title, topic, author Tweet Milken Institute Review Third Quarter 2012 July 2012 Inside this issue: From the President (Mike Klowden) Editor's Note (Peter Passell) Trends: Better living through inflation (Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden) A Matter of Life and Death (Ramanan Laxminarayan) Dead Letter Office (John Rosenthal) Digging Out (Lawrence J. White) Population Bust (Nicholas Eberstadt) Long-Term Unemployment (Gary Burtless) The (Alleged) Energy-Efficiency Gap (Hunt Allcott and Michael Greenstone) Book Excerpt: Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson) Institute View (James R. Barth, Apanard (Penny) Prabha and Phillip Swagel) Institute News Lists back to publications