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• To Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research Push

  Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Mark Muro and Teryn Norris urge policy-makers to move innovation and commercialization to the fore of America’s outdated energy policy. They advocate creating regional energy partnerships—or e-DIIs—to accelerate the development of reasonably priced alternative energy technologies and bring them to the marketplace.

• Small-Town Big Spending

  Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  Bruce Katz and Jennifer Bradley, in this letter to the editor of the New York Times, argue that the fundamental geographic unit of the 21st century is the metropolitan area and that new forms of governance must reflect this shift.

• Miracle Mets: How U.S. Metros Propel America's Economy and Might Drive Its Recovery

  Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  U.S. metropolitan areas are the under-recognized engines of America’s economy, and the nation must adjust its federal system—and American federalism—to support them so they can lead us back to prosperity, write Bruce Katz, Mark Muro, and Jennifer Bradley in a major framing essay for Democracy: A Journal of Ideas.

• Federal Energy R&D: Do It All - But Differently

  Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  Some say America needs to deploy existing green technology quickly while others say the nation needs to stress new scientific breakthroughs. Mark Muro says both camps are right, and that MPP’s proposal for the federal government to create a series of energy discovery-innovation institutes (e-DIIs) suggests a way to make progress on both counts.

• What Happens in Vegas … Stimulates the Economy

  Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  President Obama might not have intended to knock Las Vegas when he admonished travel on the taxpayer’s dime, but Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman sure took it that way when he branded the comment “outrageous.” Mark Muro and Robert Lang write that we shouldn’t push austerity so hard that it is ultimately self-defeating. Sometimes junkets provide the truest form of economic stimulus.

• New Paradigms in Energy Research

  Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:00:00 GMT

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  • February 09, 2009, 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
  
  

  With new national leadership committed to investing in clean energy technology, now is the time to explore new research paradigms in America. At this event, the Blueprint for American Prosperity released a new report that examines the role of expanded energy research in reinvigorating America’s metropolitan economies, tackling security challenges and responding to global climate change.

• Modeling Social Behavior

  Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  Joshua Epstein gave a presentation on why model social behavior during a NIH conference, which explored the field of social behavior modeling, identifying opportunities, challenges, and gaps in our collective knowledge. Participants explored the scope and direction of the field through presentations and facilitated discussion.

• Infrastructure: Time to Compete to Win

  Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  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.

• Understanding Strategic Learning through Game Theory and Agent-Based Modeling

  Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  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.

• MetroPolicy for a MetroNation

  Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  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.

• MetroPolicy: Shaping a New Federal Partnership for a Metropolitan Nation

  Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  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.

• Science: Worker Burnout and Taking Risks

  Mon, 09 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  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.

• Boosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation

  Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  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.”

• Clusters and Competitiveness: A New Federal Role for Stimulating Regional Economies

  Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  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.

• America’s Innovation Challenge: Innovation Policy and Regional Industry Clusters

  Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:00:00 GMT

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  • April 22, 2008, 8:00 AM to 10:00 AM

  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.

• Italy’s Choice: Reform or Stagnation

  Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  Michael Calingaert describes the difficulties Italy's political system faces after recent failures such as that of the Prodi government. 

• Productivity and Potential Growth in the United States and Europe

  Fri, 08 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  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.  

• Metro Areas Need to Use Power of Their Votes

  Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  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.

• Walkable Urbanism is Changing City Life

  Wed, 09 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  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.

• To Connect with Voters, Candidates Should Speak ‘Metro’

  Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  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.

• Walkable Urbanism

  Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Chris Leinberger discusses his book about the most walkable urban and metro areas in the United States with Nicole Lapin from CNN.

• U.S. Services Trade and Off-Shoring

  Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  
  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.

• Winning the Talent War: New Brookings Survey Finds the Nonprofit Sector Has the Most Dedicated Workforce

  Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:09:18 GMT

  News Release 20021003

• Economist Martin Baily Rejoins Brookings

  Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:56:25 GMT

  Economist Martin Neil Baily rejoined Brookings as a senior fellow on September 4, Brookings President Strobe Talbott has announced. Among his many accomplishments as a Brookings senior fellow from 1979 to 1989, Baily co-founded the microeconomics version of the "Brookings Papers on Economic Activity."

• Is the 21st Century Productivity Expansion Still in Services? And What Should Be Done About It?

  Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett discuss data needs and important improvements in the statistical base for analyzing productivity.

• The Globalization of Household Production

  Wed, 05 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  The authors examine a new form of immigration that is becoming widespread in countries that have become prosperous recently, from Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong to Greece. In this new type of immigration, foreigners, women in particular, are employed as private household workers either on temporary visas or under the table.

• ""The Emerging Tool Kit for NICS""

  Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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• ""The Emerging Tool Kit for NICS""

  Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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• The Four Pillars of High Performance : How Robust Organizations Achieve Extraordinary Results

  Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In The Four Pillars of High Performance, Light paints a portrait of the “robust organization”—that rare organization which possesses both the agility to adjust to changes in the external environment at a moment’s notice, and the compass needed

• Productivity in the U.S. Services Sector : New Sources of Economic Growth

  Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In their new book, Jack Triplett and Barry Bosworth analyze services sector productivity, demonstrating that fundamental changes have taken place in this sector of the U.S. economy.

• Productivity in Services Industries: Trends and Measurement Issues

  Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:30:00 GMT

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  • November 21, 2003, 8:30 AM to 4:15 PM

• What's Ahead After The GDP's Big Surge

  Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by George L. Perry (10/31/03)

• The Empirics of Growth: An Update

  Mon, 22 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Barry P. Bosworth and Susan M. Collins (3/07/03)

• Services Productivity in the United States: Griliches' Services Volume Revisited

  Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett (09/19/03)

• Productivity Measurement Issues in Services Industries: ""Baumol's Disease"" Has been Cured

  Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett

• Pride and Perseverance

  Thu, 10 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Paul C. Light, Government Executive (7/10/03)

• Alternative Measures of Corporate Profits

  Fri, 01 Nov 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Jack E. Triplett asks questions about economic and accounting concepts of profits and their implementations that cross the boundaries of the accounting and economics professions.

• The New Economy : Beyond the Hype

  Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In 2000 commentators everywhere were hailing the boom in some western economies as the dawn of a new economy. In 2001, with a slowdown in the US economy, dot.coms folding, and information and communications technology firms feeling the pinch globally

• Beyond the Dot.coms : The Economic Promise of the Internet

  Sat, 03 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In Beyond the Dot.coms, two of the nation’s most respected economists articulate the anticipated economic impact of the Internet over the next five years.

• The Internet and the New Economy

  Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #60, by Alan S. Blinder (June 2000)

• Should the Cost-of-Living Index Provide the Conceptual Framework for a Consumer Price Index?

  Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Jack E. Triplett, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in Economic Journal, June 2001

• A New Economy? : The Changing Role of Innovation and Information Technology in Growth

  Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This study shows that economic success requires not some silver bullet, but a range of complementary factors that support the innovation-intensive growth exemplified by new information and communication technologies such as the Internet and Internet

• Numbers Matter: The U.S. Statistical System and a Rapidly Changing Economy

  Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #63, by Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett (July 2000)

• The Paradox of Infrastructure Investment: Can a Productive Good Reduce Productivity?

  Thu, 01 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Andrew F. Haughwout (Summer 2000)

• The "Globalization" Challenge: The U.S. Role in Shaping World Trade and Investment

  Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Robert E. Litan (Spring 2000)

• Productivity in the Services Sector

  Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Economic Papers

• Beyond Consensus: Much Ado about Job Training

  Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Anthony P. Carnevale (Fall 1999)

• New Trend in Unemployment?: The High-Pressure U.S. Labor Market of the 1990s

  Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Lawrence F. Katz and Alan B. Krueger (Fall 1999)

• Downsized & Out? Job Security and American Workers

  Wed, 01 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Charles L. Schultze (Fall 1999)

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics: 1998

  Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  
  For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues.

• The Bureau of Labor Statistics: Fixing the Consumer Price Index

  Wed, 29 Apr 1998 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony before the House Subcommittee on Human Resources, committee on Government Reform and Oversight, on ""Bureau of Labor Statistics: Fixing the Consumer Price Index"", April 29, 1998

• Labor Markets in Latin America : Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility

  Tue, 16 Sep 1997 00:00:00 GMT

  
  The book provides a comprehensive description of the existing labor institutions in Latin America, the problems they pose, and the trends in labor market reforms as well as the difficulties encountered by the reform process in specific cases.

• Productivity Growth: Discussion And Twelve Sector Survey

  Tue, 01 Jul 1997 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Philip Bagnoli (04/97)

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1993:2

  Tue, 21 Dec 1993 00:00:00 GMT

  
  For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues.

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1993:1

  Fri, 11 Jun 1993 00:00:00 GMT

  For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues.

• The Deal Decade : What Takeovers and Leveraged Buyouts Mean for Corporate Governance

  Mon, 01 Feb 1993 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Since the 1980s, U.S. companies have been reeling from the takeovers, leveraged buyouts, re-capitalizations, and junk bond issues affecting corporations. In this book, distinguished economists and scholars in the business administration, management,

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1992

  Thu, 04 Jun 1992 00:00:00 GMT

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1990:2, Macroeconomics

  Wed, 30 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT

  
  For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues.

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Microeconomics 1990

  Thu, 21 Jun 1990 00:00:00 GMT

  
  For almost thirty years, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) has provided academic and business economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities with timely research of current economic issues.

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1989:2, Macroeconomics

  Tue, 30 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Published twice a year, BPEA offers authoritative, in-depth research on economic development for economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities. For nearly thirty years, BPEA has been an indispensable source f

• Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1988:2, Macroeconomics

  Tue, 24 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Published twice a year, BPEA offers authoritative, in-depth research on economic development for economists, government officials, and members of the financial and business communities. For nearly thirty years, BPEA has been an indispensible source f