Agenda 2016: Reviving U.S. Economic Growth
In November 2015, the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy and the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) jointly hosted a two-day symposium at Columbia to explore new ways to bolster U.S. economic growth. During the seminar, various legislative and executive branch staff met with a distinguished roster of Columbia economists and scholars, as well as PPI analysts and special guests. Attendees met to discuss recent U.S. performance, brainstorm ideas for encouraging digital innovation, and target new methods to modernize infrastructure, reform taxes, improve regulation, and expand trade opportunities.
Speaker Presentations
Key Elements of a High-Growth Strategy
Michael Mandel, Andrew Stern, and Philip K. Howard
Growth in the United States: A Macro and Global Perspective
Pierre Yared
Energy: A Realistic Path to Clean Growth
Jason Bordoff
How Bottom Up Innovation Creates Mass Prosperity
Will Marshall, Chris Mayer, Edmund Phelps, and Michael Mandel
Roundtable on Business Taxation and Growth
Michael Graetz, Michael Mandel, and David Schizer
Trade and Productivity
Ed Gerwin and Michael Mandel
Financial Institutions and Regulations After the Crisis
Jeffrey Gordon
Reinventing Public Education
Jonah Rockoff and David Osborne