He's working with researchers at George Washington University who hope to try to measure the impact forces and injury rates of runners who try the method.

NPR: Chi Runners Poised for Softer Landings

Mr Innes worries that a promising method of fighting crime will be compromised by central targets and watered down by police forces who try to pick and choose the bits they like.

ECONOMIST: Policing

In speaking with KoAnn about why Sustainable Brands has caught hold as it has, she explains that many forces are at work driving business to rethink the meaning and method of building a brand in the 21st century.

FORBES: Creating Brands for the Future: One Woman's Quest for Sustainable Brands

Whether a particular sector should be regulated by government (via laws and so on) or whether it can be happily regulated by normal market forces (such things as reputation and so on) depends in part upon the costs of each method: the transactions costs.

FORBES: Transactions Costs and Regulation