Policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not for janet yellen or anybody else at the fed. And cliff linsen is our colleague here. I have asked each to say pretend we had a president of the United States who has a short attention span. And pretend that he ran for office saying i want to spend a lot more money on infrastructure. Pretend for a moment that this tax credit thing was something thought up and will never resurface again, what would you tell him about how to wisely spend the money . I asked each to give us the seven or eight minute spiel that they would give in the oval office and then we will have interaction. It is putting a lot of pressure on time to ask them to keep to that thing but make you do it. Maybe i can start with you because we havent talked about water at all. There has been a bit of focus on water
Good morning. Im david wessel. Im director of the hutchens senator on fiscal and monetary policy. The hutchens center was formed three years ago now. This is actually our third anniversary, to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policy, and public understanding of it. And i think that this is actually a very good embodiment of what we had in mind when we started the hutchens center with a generous gift from mr. Hutchens. We believe theres a role for research in both shaping good economic policy, and in helping the public better understand it. And certainly, infrastructure, spending, and investment in Human Capital are one of those things that or two of those things that are often reduced to bumper stickers, sometimes with no evidence whatsoever behind them. I just want to say a word about the hutchens center. As of today, we have done 44 events. Today we will publish our 26th and 27th working papers. Weve done 19 explainers, part of our public understanding, and produced one com
Cspan3, a conversation from Brookings Institution on potential increased Infrastructure Spending. During a president ial campaign, donald trump said he wanted to spend more on roads, bridges and airports here in the u. S. Were a little behind schedule so im going to talk fast. Im really pleased that what we wanted to do was bring together people who have done work in the area of infrastructure to talk about where there is evidence, where there is not evidence, where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not
Center on fiscal and monetary policy. The hutchens center was formed three years ago now. This is actually our third anniversary, to improve the quality of fiscal and monetary policy, and public understanding of it. And i think that this is actually a very good embodiment of what we had in mind when we started the hutchens center with a generous gift from mr. Hutchens. We believe theres a role for research in both shaping good economic policy, and in helping the public better understand it. And certainly, infrastructure, spending, and investment in Human Capital are one of those things that or two of those things that are often reduced to bumper stickers, sometimes with no evidence whatsoever behind them. I just want to say a word about the hutchens center. As of today, we have done 44 events. Today we will publish our 26th and 27th working papers. Weve done 19 explainers, part of our public understanding, and produced one computer game, a game that helps educate people on the federal
Where the things that government does makes sense and where things dont make sense. Physical infrastructure is a rather broad term and so we have a panel that is one part water and three parts transportation. Newsha ajami is Senior Research associate at the Stanford Woods Institute for the environment, director of urban water policy at water in the west. Matthew turner is professor of economics at brown who has written a bit about transportation. Dan wilson is at Federal Reserve bank in San Francisco and speaks only for himself and not for janet yellen or anybody else at the fed. And Cliff Winston is our colleague here at brookings. I have asked each to say pretend we had a president of the United States who has a short attention span. And pretend that he ran for office saying i want to spend a lot more money on infrastructure. Pretend for a moment that this tax credit thing was something thought up and will never resurface again, what would you tell him about how to wisely spend the m