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Research that moves policy forward.

We study hard problems, synthesize what matters, and communicate clearly — through research, partnerships, and modern platforms built for real-world impact.

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Objective: real change
Current Focus Areas

Problems worth solving.

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Regulatory Capture

How special interests distort policy in finance and health care — and how to score and reduce it globally.

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US Health Care

The structural failures driving cost, access, and outcomes in the American health care system.

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Financial Markets

Fairness, transparency, and the gap between how markets should work and how they do.

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US–China Relations

Beyond rhetoric — what can we actually learn from China's industrial dynamism and policy experimentation?

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School Reform

K–12, state competition, and whether funding structures are producing the outcomes we say we want.

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Energy

The policy, economics, and geopolitics of the energy transition — including where the US is leaving opportunity on the table.

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Research, ideas & conversations.

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Conversation

China, Apple, and the Manufacturing Question — with Dan Wang & Patrick McGee

A three-way discussion on what China actually built, what Apple actually learned, and what the US is choosing to ignore.

Jan 23, 2026 · 47 min listen
Research

Scoring Governments for Regulatory Capture

A proposed framework for measuring and ranking how captured regulatory systems are — and what reforms might move the needle.

Coming 2026
Essay

If It Doesn't Matter, It Doesn't Matter

On policy intent versus policy outcome — and why well-meaning reform so often makes things worse.

Forthcoming
"Research that moves policy forward."

The P3 Institute operates on a simple conviction: the gap between what we know and what policy actually does is not a knowledge problem. It's a synthesis and communication problem.

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