The Progressive Policy Institute’s Innovation Frontier Project hosted a virtual conference for policymakers, staffers and journalists titled “How Better Statistics Lead to Better Policy in a Changing World”.
Our economy is becoming increasingly global and digital, but economic statistics are slow to adapt to this new reality. In many ways policymakers are flying blind: Why don’t we have the data we need on the digital economy, the price and value of cutting-edge medical treatments, and global supply chains and inflation? Innovation is everywhere except in the economic statistics.
The Innovation Frontier Project assembled a panel of leading experts who addressed the need for new statistics in the key areas of the digital economy; healthcare; and supply chains. They showed how a relatively small investment in improving our data can avoid huge policy mistakes.
Watch the event here.
WHAT: Virtual conference for policymakers, staffers, and journalists
WHEN: Friday, December 3; 11:00am-2:00pm ET; Zoom
PURPOSE: This conference brings together leading experts to show how our economic statistics need to be improved to avoid policy mistakes in the digital and global economy.
MODERATORS:
Michael Mandel, Vice President and Chief Economist, PPI
Arielle Kane, Director of Health Policy, PPI
Panel 1: Measuring the Digital Economy
Panel 2: Tracking Healthcare
Panel 3: Measuring Supply Chains
Concluding Remarks
