Manufacturing

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Future Development

Are cities engines of production or consumption, and does it matter?

Elena Ianchovichina, Remi Jedwab, and Federico Haslop

Thursday, July 14, 2022

TechTank

TechTank Podcast Episode 43: What should we do about computer chip shortages?

Darrell M. West

Monday, May 2, 2022

U.S. President Joe Biden hands a pen to Lina Khan, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, as he signs an executive order on "promoting competition in the American economy" as members of his Cabinet standby in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington U.S., July 9, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

TechTank

President Biden’s right to repair order needs strengthening to aid consumers

James Seddon and Darrell M. West

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

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Growth in a Time of Change

Edited by Hyeon-Wook Kim and Zia Qureshi

2020

Spotlight on Public Support to Industry

By Udo Pretschker and with Marian Murphy

1999

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Experts

Makada Henry-Nickie

Nonresident Fellow - Governance Studies

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Darrell M. West

Vice President and Director - Governance Studies

Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation

Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies

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Mark Muro

Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro

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Technology & Innovation

What’s behind the semiconductor shortage and how long could it last?

Don Clark and David Dollar

Monday, May 24, 2021

A line worker installs the back seats on the flex line at Nissan Motor Co's automobile manufacturing plant in Smyrna, Tennessee, U.S., August 23, 2018. Picture taken August 23, 2018. REUTERS/William DeShazer - RC1B6E2ACF40

TechTank

Highlights: How public attitudes are shaping the future of manufacturing

Anagha Komaragiri and Louis Serino

Friday, August 2, 2019

FILE PHOTO: General Motors auto assembly worker Karen Garner works on assembling engines for Chevrolet Silverado's and GMC Sierra pickup trucks at the Flint Assembly in Flint, Michigan January 24, 2011. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo - RC1C42526E40

Podcast Episode

How Trump’s trade policies will affect manufacturing

Brad Setser and David Dollar

Monday, January 7, 2019

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More on Manufacturing

Illustration photo shows various medicine pills in their original packaging in Brussels, Belgium August 9, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman/Illustration

Time to make essential medicines within the United States

Darrell M. West

Monday, June 14, 2021

Reshoring advanced manufacturing supply chains to generate good jobs

Andrew Fish and Honora Spillane

July 23, 2020

Employees of Hamilton Medical AG test ventilators at a plant in Domat/Ems, Switzerland March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

To save America, it’s time to activate the great arsenal of democracy

William A. Galston

Friday, March 20, 2020

An Amtrak train attendant walks across the tracks at the Holdrege station after exiting the 5 California Zephyr Amtrak train in Holdrege, Nebraska June 13, 2008. U.S. government-owned passenger rail company Amtrak wields improper and coercive regulatory power over private freight carriers under a law that lets it help set rules that competing railroads must follow, a federal appeals court ruled on April 29, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Lott/File Photo

COVID-19 is hurting many industries and workers, but could it help trade and logistics?

Joseph W. Kane and Adie Tomer

Thursday, March 19, 2020

Metro Monitor 2020: Prosperity is increasing in America’s largest metro areas, but not for everyone

Alan Berube

March 5, 2020

The case for growth centers: How to spread tech innovation across America

Robert D. Atkinson, Mark Muro, and Jacob Whiton

December 9, 2019

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Reports

Can the Biden administration improve the manufacturing sector?

Rebuilding the US medical supply chain

Preserving manufacturing in the COVID-19 economy

Nonresident Fellow - Governance Studies

Vice President and Director - Governance Studies

Senior Fellow - Center for Technology Innovation

Douglas Dillon Chair in Governmental Studies

Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro