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Save to My PortfolioMetroPolicy for a MetroNation

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

Macroeconomics, U.S. Economic Growth, Productivity, U.S. Higher Education, Quality-of-Life Issues

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Save to My PortfolioMetroPolicy: Shaping a New Federal Partnership for a Metropolitan Nation

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

U.S. Economic Growth, Productivity, U.S. Higher Education, Quality-of-Life Issues, Regions and States

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Save to My PortfolioScience: Worker Burnout and Taking Risks

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

Subjective Well-being, Productivity

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Save to My PortfolioBoosting Productivity, Innovation, and Growth through a National Innovation Foundation

Robert Atkinson and Howard Wial, April 22, 2008, The Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioItaly’s Choice: Reform or Stagnation

Michael Calingaert, March 2008, Current History

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Save to My PortfolioProductivity and Potential Growth in the United States and Europe

Martin Neil Baily, February 08, 2008, Presentation at the European Central Bank

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Save to My PortfolioMetro Areas Need to Use Power of Their Votes

Bruce Katz and MarySue Barrett, January 22, 2008, Chicago Sun Times

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Save to My PortfolioWalkable Urbanism is Changing City Life

Christopher B. Leinberger and Kojo Nnamdi, January 09, 2008, The Kojo Nnamdi Show (WAMU)

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTo Connect with Voters, Candidates Should Speak ‘Metro’

Bruce Katz and Alan Berube, December 19, 2007, The Miami Herald

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioWalkable Urbanism

Christopher B. Leinberger and Nicole Lapin, December 05, 2007, CNN

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Save to My PortfolioU.S. Services Trade and Off-Shoring

Martin Neil Baily, November 16, 2007, Fall CEPS Symposium on Off-Shoring: Opportunity, Threat, or Both?, Princeton University

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Save to My PortfolioIs the 21st Century Productivity Expansion Still in Services? And What Should Be Done About It?

Barry P. Bosworth and Jack E. Triplett, January 06, 2007, Presented at the 2007 Meeting of the American Economic Association

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Globalization of Household Production

Michael Kremer and Stanley Watt, October 05, 2005, The Brookings Institution

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Save to My PortfolioProductivity in Services Industries: Trends and Measurement Issues

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Jack E. Triplett

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Jack Triplett, who served as an economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce, is an expert on economic statistics; health care; and inflation. He currently focuses on output and productivity in medical care and in the service sector.
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