The Tobin Project, a main supporter of the Rethinking Regulation project, has been awarded a “Creative and Effective Institutions” Award from the MacArthur Foundation. The Tobin Project has created several networks of leading social scientists who share interests around big public policy questions including regulatory policy.
Tobin Founder and President David Moss invited Ed Balleisen to join the effort to get Tobin off the ground in 2005. Since then Ed has helped to forge a strategic direction for Tobin, consulting on research priorities and organizational focus. From 2007-2009, he spearheaded, along with Moss, a major research project on regulatory governance, which culminated in the 2009 publication of “Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation” (Cambridge University Press). Ed is featured in a short video announcing the award which can be found here: www.macfound.org/maceirecipients/71/
Congratulations to the Tobin Project!