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Spotlight: Energy Security


Reuters - The Valero St. Charles oil refinery is seen during a tour of the refinery in Norco

Save to My Portfolio Next on Climate: Improve Waxman-Markey Innovation Provisions in Senate

Mark Muro, June 29, 2009

Following a narrow House vote on Friday to pass climate change legislation, President Obama called on the Senate this weekend to follow suit. Mark Muro urges an even greater investment in energy innovation to catalyze a radically cleaner future. Read More

Energy Security, Climate Change, Innovation, Competitiveness, Technology and Development

SPOTLIGHT: Competitiveness


Reuters/Morris MacMatzen - Workers stand by to mount the propeller as crane lifts it to the top of a power-generating windmill turbine.

Save to My Portfolio To Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research Push

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris, April 30, 2009

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris urge policy-makers to move innovation and commercialization to the fore of America’s outdated energy policy.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. Read More

Competitiveness, Information Technology, Energy Security, Innovation, Technology

SPOTLIGHT: Competitiveness

Save to My Portfolio Strengthening American Competitiveness: Regaining Our Competitive Edge

Jason Bordoff, Lael Brainard, Carola McGiffert and Isaac Sorkin, February 2009

As U.S. policy-makers focus on how to strengthen the U.S. economy in the midst of the financial crisis, Brookings competitiveness experts stress the need for a longer-term view with policy priorities focused on how to rebuild American competitiveness through investments in people, infrastructure, ideas and green transformation. Read More

Competitiveness, U.S. Economy, U.S. Economic Growth, Global Financial Crisis, Infrastructure

SPOTLIGHT: Trade


Reuters/Gary Cameron - A steel girder is signed at the new Washington Nationals stadium.

Save to My Portfolio Buy American?: Global Considerations for the Proposed Stimulus Plan Clause

Eswar Prasad, February 03, 2009

The final version of the fiscal stimulus plan weakened the "Buy American" provision requiring the use of only U.S. iron and steel in construction work funded by the bill. Nevertheless, business groups continue to criticize the provision. In a new Q&A, Eswar Prasad discusses global concerns. Read More

Trade, Global Economics, U.S. Economy, Fiscal Policy, U.S. Economic Stimulus

FEATURED PROGRAM: Forum Index


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Save to My Portfolio Schwartz Forums on U.S. Competitiveness

The most recent Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness was a public symposium that explored the challenges and opportunities for new infrastructure investment. Schwartz, retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Loral Space & Communications, wanted the forums to serve as a platform for broad public discussion. The first forum, held in April 2006, opened with a discussion on U.S. education, innovation and research and development; the second forum addressed America’s standing in the field of science and technology as it relates to economic competitiveness. Read More

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioThe Scouting Report: Clean Energy Innovation

Wednesday, June 03, 2009
12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
Washington, DC

In the June 3 edition of the Scouting Report live web chat, Brookings policy expert Mark Muro and Politico senior editor Fred Barbash discussed how "The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" is more than just a cap-and-trade bill. The bill has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment. Read More

Energy Security, Climate Change, Innovation, Technology and Development, Competitiveness

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioWaxman-Markey: What About Innovation?

Mark Muro, May 26, 2009, The Vine, The New Republic

The climate change bill now winding its way through the House of Representatives has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment. However, Mark Muro argues, funding the Department of Energy’s budget request for innovation would more immediately establish American alternative energy leadership. Read More

Energy Security, Climate Change, Innovation, Technology and Development, Competitiveness

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTo Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research Push

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris, April 30, 2009, Yale Environment 360

To Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research PushMark 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. Read More

Competitiveness, Information Technology, Energy Security, Innovation, Technology

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPikes Peak as “Megapolitan” Space: A Federal Agenda for Prosperity in the Colorado Springs Metro Area

Robert E. Lang, Amy Liu and Mark Muro, April 07, 2009, Colorado College State of the Rockies Symposium

This year's State of the Rockies Symposium at Colorado College focuses on megapolitan areas—combinations of two or more regions into a single economic, social, and urban system. Amy Liu and Mark Muro of the Metro Program, and Robert Lang of Virginia Tech, delivered keynote addresses on how the Pike’s Peak region can leverage the federal role to help it better connect to Denver and the rest of the Front Range “mega" and boost its prosperity. Read More

Competitiveness, Regions and States, Sprawl, Sustainable Development, U.S. Economic Growth

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioSacramento's Transit-Oriented Development Plan a Model for the Nation

Christopher B. Leinberger, March 18, 2009, The Sacramento Bee

Chris Leinberger argues that Sacramento, the capital of one of the most hard-pressed states in the country, is an evolving model of development for metropolitan America. Read More

Transportation, Housing, Competitiveness, Cities, Walkable Urbanism

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMiracle Mets: How U.S. Metros Propel America's Economy and Might Drive Its Recovery

Bruce Katz, Mark Muro and Jennifer Bradley, March 11, 2009, Democracy Journal

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. Read More

Competitiveness, Cities, Federalism, U.S. Economy, U.S. Economic Growth

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioFederal Energy R&D: Do It All - But Differently

Mark Muro, March 10, 2009, The Vine, The New Republic

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. Read More

Energy Security, Technology and Development, Competitiveness, Innovation, Economic Mobility

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioIn Dire Straits: The Urgent Need to Improve Economic Statistics

Andrew Reamer, March 04, 2009, Amstat News, American Statistical Association

Current, accurate economic statistics are crucial to monitoring the fragile condition of the U.S. economy and guiding it out of recession. However, Andrew Reamer indicates, the nation’s statistical system has been deteriorating before our eyes. He outlines steps the White House should take to repair the system. Read More

U.S. Economy, U.S. Economic Growth, Competitiveness, Regions and States, Economic Development

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioWhat Happens in Vegas … Stimulates the Economy

Robert E. Lang and Mark Muro, February 25, 2009, The Las Vegas Sun

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. Read More

Cities, Competitiveness, Economic Development, Productivity

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioStrengthening American Competitiveness: Regaining Our Competitive Edge

Jason Bordoff, Lael Brainard, Carola McGiffert and Isaac Sorkin, February 2009, The Brookings Institution

Strengthening American Competitiveness: Regaining Our Competitive EdgeAs U.S. policy-makers focus on how to strengthen the U.S. economy in the midst of the financial crisis, Brookings competitiveness experts stress the need for a longer-term view with policy priorities focused on how to rebuild American competitiveness through investments in people, infrastructure, ideas and green transformation. Read More

Competitiveness, U.S. Economy, U.S. Economic Growth, Global Financial Crisis, Infrastructure

Competitiveness at Brookings

As emerging economies and existing powers seek competitive advantages, how can America retain its edge? If global integration is going be an enduring benefit for Americans—and receive their broad-based political support—the United States will need a sustained national agenda for remaining the world's most vibrant economy. Brookings’s institution-wide initiative on competitiveness integrates the global debate with developments at the local, state and federal levels.

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Competitiveness Save to My PortfolioSchwartz Forum on Competitiveness

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Featured Experts

Martin Neil Baily

Martin Neil Baily

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development

Martin Baily, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration (1999–2001) and one of three members of the council from 1994 to 1996, focuses on issues of globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform, and U.S. economic policy.
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Bruce Katz

Bruce Katz

Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
The Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, regularly advises national, state, regional and municipal leaders on policy reforms that advance the competitiveness of metropolitan areas.
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Mark Muro

Mark Muro

Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program

Mark Muro, a fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, manages the program's public policy analysis and leads key policy research projects.
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Spotlight

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.

Policy CenterCenter on Children and Families

The Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.

Research ProjectBudgeting for National Priorities

The Budgeting for National Priorities project promotes greater fiscal responsibility by developing new ideas, educating the public and finding common ground among experts and policy-makers.

ExpertSarah A. Binder

Sarah Binder is an expert on Congress and legislative politics.  She is completing a project on the politics of advice and consent, and is at work on the politics of how Congress responds to financial crises.

TopicEducation

The economic and political well-being of any democracy requires a well-educated citizenry. Brookings’s work has extended beyond the K-12 bookends to include pre-school interventions and issues in higher education. Experts are tackling fundamental issues on the role of education in the national and global economy.

Policy CenterJohn L. Thornton China Center

The John L. Thornton China Center develops analysis and policy recommendations to help address key long-term challenges, both in terms of U.S.-China relations and China's internal development.

Policy CenterCenter on the United States and Europe

The Center on the U.S. and Europe is dedicated to the study of Europe and U.S.-Europe relations. It involves American and European experts in an active program of research, analysis, and debate.

ExpertVanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown focuses on the national security implications of illicit economies and strategies for managing them. She is a security studies professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

TopicHealth Care

Brookings is committed to producing innovative policy solutions to our nation’s most difficult challenges. The country may face no more important domestic policy challenge than the much-needed reform of our health care system. Through an institution-wide effort, Brookings delivers new ideas and offers policy solutions to improve health care both at home and globally.

ProgramMetropolitan Policy Program

Redefining the challenges facing metropolitan America and promoting innovative solutions to help communities grow in more inclusive, competitive and sustainable ways.

Research Project21st Century Defense Initiative

The 21st Century Defense Initiative produces cutting-edge research, analysis, and outreach that address some of the most critical issues facing leaders shaping defense policy in the coming century. The initiative focuses on three core issues: the future of war, the future of U.S. defense needs and priorities, and the future of the U.S. defense system

Research ProjectAfrica Growth Initiative

The Africa Growth Initiative conducts high-quality policy research and analysis focused on attaining sustainable economic development and prosperity in Africa, while amplifying the voice of African researchers in policy-making and planning.

TopicMigration

Migration is an issue that bridges Brookings’s expertise in domestic and foreign policy. In the United States, reforming immigration policy remains a subject of intense political debate. Globally, the unprecedented movement of people across borders raises issues in both industrialized countries and the developing world.

ExpertEswar Prasad

Eswar Prasad, who holds the New Century Chair in International Economics, is a senior fellow in Global Economy and Development. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and was previously head of the Financial Studies Division and the China Division at the IMF.

ExpertRobert Puentes

Robert Puentes focuses on the broad array of policies and issues related to metropolitan growth and development. He is an expert on transportation and infrastructure, urban planning, growth management, suburban issues and housing.

ExpertMartin Neil Baily

Martin Baily, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, focuses on issues of globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform and U.S. economic policy.