Featured Event Implementing Comparative Effectiveness Research: Priorities, Methods and ImpactTuesday, June 09, 2009The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium
A forum hosted by The Hamilton Project and the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform will address many of the key questions surrounding CER and feature remarks from Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag. Three discussion papers released at the event will focus on how research questions should be prioritized, what methods and data infrastructure are needed for CER, and how CER findings can be used to improve clinical and health policy decisions.
Past Events
- Improving the Measurement of Poverty
December 9, 2009
The Hamilton Project released the discussion paper and held a policy forum on the need for a new national poverty measure. Hamilton Project Advisory Council member Roger C. Altman, chairman of Evercore Partners gave welcoming remarks and lead the discussion.
- From Prison to Work: Overcoming Barriers to Reentry
December 5, 2008
The Hamilton Project hosted a policy discussion on the challenges of prisoner reentry featuring remarks by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and a keynote address by U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.). The event also featured a policy roundtable with a diverse group of experts on the need for a national prisoner reentry strategy.
- The Future of Housing and Credit Markets
September 23, 2008
Financial chaos highlights housing and credit market problems that policy-makers must address. A Hamilton Project discussion on September 23 featured FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, Eton Park Capital Management CEO Eric Mindich and former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers. Video clips and full event audio are now available.
- Investing in America's Infrastructure: From Bridges to Broadband
July 25, 2008
The state of the nation’s infrastructure is generating rising public attention, prompted by daily travel frustrations, high-profile catastrophes, urgent calls to address climate change and energy security, and concerns about productivity and economic growth. On Friday, July 25, The Hamilton Project released six new policy papers and hosted a public forum on the need for a national strategy that promotes infrastructure as a central component of long-term, broadly shared growth.
- Missing Markets: Fostering Market Based Solutions to Major Risks
June 5, 2008
The Hamilton Project at Brookings released papers and hosted a discussion focusing on what the government can do to foster market-based solutions to major risks, including the financial risk of buying a home; the possibility of outliving one's assets and spending the last years in poverty; the vulnerability of local communities to economic dislocations, and the broader risk posed by catastrophes like hurricanes and terrorist attacks.
- Economic Growth Strategies for Developing Countries in an Era of Global Uncertainty
April 14, 2008
The Hamilton Project at Brookings and the Commission on Growth & Development hosted a discussion on the role economic growth in reducing poverty in developing nations. Special attention was given to the impacts of recent financial market turmoil on global development.
- Easing the Traffic Jam Through Congestion Pricing
April 1, 2008
Brookings’ Hamilton Project and Metropolitan Policy Program released a preliminary draft of a new paper by David Lewis, "America’s Traffic Congestion Problem: Toward a Framework for Nationwide Reform," and hosted a discussion on the merits and potential barriers to congestion pricing as a tool for combating urban gridlock.
- Addressing the Foreclosure Crisis: A Hamilton Project Policy Discussion
March 14, 2008
The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a conversation on proposed policy responses to the mortgage-foreclosure problem, discussing house prices and negative equity, interest rates, and subprime mortgages.
- If, When, How? Prospects for Fiscal Stimulus in the U.S. Economy
January 10, 2008
The Hamilton Project released a briefing paper and convened a discussion on what economists know about fiscal stimulus - if it is appropriate, when should it be implemented, and how should it be done.
- Facilitating and Rewarding Work
December 12, 2007
The Hamilton Project at Brookings hosted a two-part forum at the National Press Club on ways to encourage, facilitate and reward work. Besides the release of a new Hamilton Project strategy paper, the forum highlighted four new and forthcoming discussion papers.
- A Climate of Change:
Economic Approaches to Reforming Energy and Protecting the Environment
October 30, 2007
The forum highlighted two new discussion papers on how to best design market mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and included proposals to expand -and possibly restructure-the federal research and development program to better promote the development of new greenhouse gas reducing technologies.
- Recent Financial Market Disruptions: Implications for the Economy and American Families
September 26, 2007
As the nation faces what might be the worse liquidity crisis around housing in 50 years, The Hamilton Project brought together former and current Treasury officials and Wall Street experts for a free-flowing discussion on the risks to the economy and to individual home owners.
- A New Social Contract
July 26, 2007
A luncheon discussion hosted by The Hamilton Project and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. (Transcript | Listen)
- Who's Got the Cure?
July 17, 2007
A forum on health-care reform and a release of four alternative policy proposals for achieving the goal of universal health care coverage for all Americans.
- Reforming Taxation in the Global Age
June 12, 2007
A two-part forum and release of a new set of policy proposals that address the challenges of reforming the U.S. tax system.
- Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
May 02, 2007
Discussions featuring recent Hamilton Project papers.
- Health-care Reform Reconsidered: Options for Change
Part 1: Affordability and Effectiveness
April 10, 2007
Discussions featuring recent Hamilton Project papers.
- The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth
March 29, 2007
Discussions featuring recent Hamilton Project papers.
- Promoting Opportunity and Growth Through Science, Technology, and Innovation
December 5, 2006
A Hamilton Project paper release and discussion.
- Economic Security in a Changing World
September 15, 2006
A joint briefing by The Hamilton Project and The New Republic.
- Meeting the Challenge of a Global Economy: Trade, Economic Security, and Effective Government
July 2006
A Hamilton Project paper release and discussion.
- Warm Hearts and Cool Heads: Promoting Growth and Opportunity in a Globalizing Economy
June 2006
Keynote speech at the AIPAC Symposium on Socio-economic disparity.
- Restoring America's Promise of Opportunity, Prosperity and Growth
April 2006
The Hamilton Project launch.
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