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Beyond Goods and Services: The (Unmeasured) Rise of the Data-Driven Economy

INTRODUCTION We live in a world where ‘data-driven economic activities’—the production, distribution and use of digital information of all types—are the leading edge of economic…

Manufacturing in the App Economy

We live in a world where the communications sector is driving the recovery and receiving much attention. We believe that this is the most important…

Measuring the Real Impact of Imports on Jobs

When it comes to manufacturing, most politicians, economists, and journalists agree: the millions of manufacturing jobs lost in recent years are mostly not coming back….

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PPI Unveils New Study, Rome Conference on “The Data-Driven Economy”

NEWS RELEASE  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Steven Chlapecka – schlapecka@ppionline.org, T: 202.525.3931 WASHINGTON—Government statistics don’t show it, but the production and consumption of data is…

Mitt Romney’s Vapid Foreign Policy

PPI’s Will Marshall detailed Mitt Romney’s recent adventure in the world of foreign policy over at The American Interest.  Romney was able to stumble his…

The Most Important Sentence in Obama’s Speech

In the Atlantic, PPI Chief Economic Strategist Michael Mandel explains why President Obama needed to start in the middle of his speech and focus on…

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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…

WTO Filing a Step Toward Enhancing Competitiveness

Are U.S. manufacturing jobs gone for good? Many so-called experts have mocked the Obama Administration’s latest trade action against China as being fundamentally useless, the…

Help Wanted: ‘Chief U.S. Investment Officer’

Most people didn’t notice that Commerce Secretary Bryson resigned late last month. And why would they? The Commerce Department has long been one of the more…

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Data-Driven Productivity and Trade: Unlocking New Drivers of Growth
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