RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Lael Brainard, July 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
The Olympic development boom in China showcases the results of years of rapid growth in China’s economy and mirrors that of many other emerging markets. One of the Olympic lessons for the U.S. should be to reverse its ailing infrastructure trend and begin investing for the long-term to stay competitive, according to Lael Brainard. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
H. Peyton Young, July 13, 2008, The Brookings Institution
Peyton Young addresses his recent game theory and agent-based modeling work in the Presidential Address to the World Congress of the Game Theory Society at Northwestern University. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jennifer Bradley, June 2008, The Brookings Institution
To unleash greater local and national prosperity, U.S. metropolitan leaders need to be better equipped to deal with today’s increasingly dynamic economic, social and environmental realities. This summary outlines a new federal-state-metro partnership that provides metropolitan actors the support, capacity, tools and discretion they need to resolve key challenges; grow in more productive, inclusive, and sustainable ways; and, ultimately, to maximize America’s overall prosperity. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, Bruce Katz, Sarah Rahman and David Warren, June 12, 2008, The Brookings Institution
To unleash greater local and national prosperity U.S. metropolitan leaders need to be better equipped to deal with today’s increasingly dynamic economic, social and environmental realities. This report calls for a new federal-state-metro partnership that provides metropolitan actors the support, capacity, tools and discretion they need to resolve key challenges; grow in more productive, inclusive, and sustainable ways; and, ultimately, to maximize America’s overall prosperity. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford Winston, June 09, 2008, washingtonpost.com
Clifford Winston joins Shankar Vedantam of the Washington Post to discuss human behavior and worker burnout on washingtonpost.com Department of Human Behavior online chat. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Karen G. Mills, Elisabeth B. Reynolds and Andrew Reamer, April 2008, The Brookings Institution
Regional industry clusters—geographic concentrations of interconnected firms and supporting organizations—represent a potent source of productivity at a moment of national vulnerability to global economic competition. For that reason, Karen Mills, Elisabeth Reynolds and Andrew Reamer say the federal government should establish an industry clusters program to stimulate the collaborative interactions of firms and supporting organizations in regional economies to produce more commercial innovation and higherwage employment. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial, April 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution
To respond to America’s slipping leadership in commercial innovation the federal government should establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a nimble, lean, and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. By realigning and augmenting the nation’s diffuse present efforts the new entity would help create better jobs in America, not just for highly educated “knowledge workers” but for high school graduates in manufacturing and “low-tech services.” Read More
PAST EVENT
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
8:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Washington, DC
The authors of a new report, “Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation" held a forum at the National Press Club in Washington DC to respond to America's slipping leadership in commercial innovation and urge the federal government to establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a nimble, lean and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Michael Calingaert, March 2008, Current History
Michael Calingaert describes the difficulties Italy's political system faces after recent failures such as that of the Prodi government. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Martin Neil Baily, February 08, 2008, Presentation at the European Central Bank
At the request of the European Central Bank, Martin N. Baily presented his work at a conference in Frankfurt, in January 2008. His work examined productivity and potential growth in the United States and the European Union for the whole economy and by industry. This is a PDF of Martin Bailey's PowerPoint presentation. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and MarySue Barrett, January 22, 2008, Chicago Sun Times
Bruce Katz and his colleague MarySue Barrett argue that presidential candidates can score big with metropolitan voters in places such as Phoenix, New York, Santa Fe and Chicago if they rethink the compact between metro areas and the federal government. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Christopher B. Leinberger and Kojo Nnamdi, January 09, 2008, The Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU)
Chris Leinberger discusses walkable urbanism, and how the desire for more walkable urban spaces is changing the housing market in America's cities as people seek alternatives to driving. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Bruce Katz and Alan Berube, December 19, 2007, The Miami Herald
As presidential candidates continue to campaign in Florida and across the country, they are forsaking a real opportunity to speak directly to the prosperity challenges facing America's states and metropolitan areas. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Christopher B. Leinberger and Nicole Lapin, December 05, 2007, CNN
Chris Leinberger discusses his book about the most walkable urban and metro areas in the United States with Nicole Lapin from CNN. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Martin Neil Baily, November 16, 2007, Fall CEPS Symposium on Off-Shoring: Opportunity, Threat, or Both?, Princeton University
Deregulation, new technologies and expanded international trade and investment have intensified global competition. Martin Neil Baily explained at a recent symposium that this trend may be a cause for concern, but—given the current U.S. trade surplus in services—it may be a positive thing for employment. Read More