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“Cut and Invest” vs. Austerity

President Obama’s new budget attempts to define a progressive alternative to conservative demands for a politics of austerity. Having just returned from a gathering of…

Big Data: An Emerging Frontier for Innovation and Policy

Michael Mandel participated in a recent OECD conference in Paris, France, Growth, Innovation And Competitiveness: Maximizing The Benefits Of Knowledge-Based Capital.  Mandel joined Matteo Pacca…

Three Ways to Bring Manufacturing Back to America

Writing for The Washington Monthly, Anne Kim discusses insourcing, and how it can affect the U.S. economy and U.S.-based innovation in the future. In January…

The Google Way: How Washington Can Regulate Without Killing Growth

In the Atlantic, Michael Mandel explains how the Federal Trade Commission’s looming antitrust settlement with the search giant shows that regulators can do their job without…

Tech Investment Still Rising, Despite WSJ Story

This morning the WSJ ran a story entitled “Investment Falls Off a Cliff: U.S. Companies Cut Spending Plans Amid Fiscal and Economic Uncertainty.” The story argued that:…

The Real Meaning of Obamacare

Back in 1996, I wrote a book called The High-Risk Society. The book was based on the vision that Americans had to embrace risk and innovation…

The Next Choice: A High-growth Economy Versus Long-term Stagnation

As soon as the results of the election are known, President Obama or President Romney will be beset with a list of difficult decisions: What…

The Astonishing Obama Tech Boom

Going into the next two debates, Barack Obama would certainly like a bit more of Bill Clinton’s mojo. After all, Clinton both won a second…

Don’t Ground the Golden Goose

Serendipity is crucial to scientific discovery. Researchers often stumble on breakthroughs when they are working on entirely different problems. That’s why it’s vital for government…

FCC: A Broadband Assessment without Mobile is Incomplete

This week the FCC concluded that “broadband is not being deployed to all Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion” in its eighth annual “Broadband…