UPCOMING EVENT
Thursday, December 10, 2009
11:00 AM to 12:45 PM
Washington, DC
On December 10, the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings hosts the fourth Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness to address the connection between infrastructure investments and economic growth, including the release of a paper discussing the merits and intersections of the capital budget and National Infrastructure Bank concepts. U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood will outline current federal reform efforts. Read More
UPCOMING EVENT
Wednesday, December 02, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC
The American educational system is fundamental to promoting social and economic mobility, civic engagement and global competiveness, but the subject of receives less media coverage than other major public policy issues. On December 2, Grover "Russ" Whitehurst and E.J. Dionne, authors of The Disappearance of Education News, will present their solutions for improving education reporting and promoting quality discourse. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro and Robert E. Lang, September 08, 2009, University of Nevada Las Vegas
In speeches delivered at the Las Vegas roll-out of the Brookings Mountain West Initiative Mark Muro and nonresident senior fellow Robert Lang argue that Las Vegas presents an exaggerated version of America’s economic quandary. Muro declares that Las Vegas presents, in extreme form, some of the fundamental questions facing the whole country as it faces a major economic “reset” while Lang contends it can still emerge as America’s next true world city. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Andrew Reamer, August 19, 2009, International Statistical Institute conference Durban, South Africa
At the biennial International Statistics Institute conference in Durban, South Africa, Andrew Reamer said that the federal economic statistical system has been too narrowly focused on meeting the data needs of macroeconomic policymakers, to the detriment of other data users, particularly those at the regional level. Read More
BOOK
Isaac Sorkin and Lael Brainard, July 31, 2009
Brookings Trade Forum provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to
each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The 2008/2009 edition focuses on climate policy and its impact on trade. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro, June 29, 2009, The Brookings Institution
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
PAST EVENT
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mark Muro and Teryn Norris, April 30, 2009, Yale Environment 360
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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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