Satellites & the Economy with Luis Martinez
Air Dates: December 8-9, 2018 Publically available satellite images offer some of the most fascinating perspectives about life on Earth. Luis Martinez goes one step further and mines those images for the data and stories they contain about some of the world’s most repressive regimes. <iframe src=”https://omny.fm/shows/story-in-the-public-square/satellites-and-the-economy-with-luis-martinez/embed?style=cover” width=”100%” height=”180″ frameborder=”0″></iframe> Luis Martinez is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. His main research interest … Read More
Globalization is a Human Impulse: Picks of the Week
Why Globalization Stalled And How to Restart It | Foreign Affairs The Place Where Globalization Kept Its Promise | Marketplace The Pillars of Trump’s Nationalism are Weakening | The Washington Post Globalization has gotten a bad rap over the last couple of years. The concept is invoked regularly to explain the loss of American manufacturing jobs (though automation is likely the bigger culprit going forward). More ominously, the new bogey-men … Read More
Picks of the Week | Big Challenges Await Next President
Why Americans Still Think the Economy is Terrible | New York Times Senators call U.S. effort to train Syrians to fight Islamic State ‘a joke’ | McClatchy DC Russia is Setting up a Forward Operating Base in Syria, Pentagon Confirms | Defense One President Barack Obama waded into the 2016 Republican primary debate this week when he said, “Despite the perennial doom and gloom that I guess is inevitably … Read More
Picks of the Week | Absence of U.S. at Paris March; Redistribution of Taxes
“Lafayette, We are Here!” America’s Absence | The Providence Journal White House: We should have sent someone to Paris march | USA Today U.S. embarrassed by lack of top-level figure at Paris March | The Washington Post President Obama should have been at the march in Paris. It was a singular moment in the world’s response to extremism. It was powerful imagery, a tremendous message, and a lost opportunity for … Read More
Picks of the Week | Slavery and Seafood Supply Chains, Future Negotiations with Iran
Cheap Fish, Slavery, and Supply Chains Era of cheap fish is over, says expert, as industry forced to tackle slavery and overfishing | South China Morning Post Slavery and the Shrimp on your Plate: Thai Seafood Is Contaminated by Human Trafficking | The New York Times Senate Bill No. 657 [California Transparency in Supply Chains Act] For most of us, most of the time, the “supply chains” that bring us … Read More
The Case for the New Congress to Restore Defense Earmarks
Pell Center Executive Director Dr. Jim Ludes and Ms. Kelly Mendell, President of MIKEL, a RI based defense company, published an op-ed today calling for the restoration of Congressional earmarks for defense research and development. An excerpt is below. The full piece is available at at RollCall.com. A Rose by Any Other Name: It’s Time to Bring Earmarks Back to Defense R&D By James M. Ludes and Kelly Mendell Nov. … Read More
Pell Center forum discusses choices for a better economy
Earlier this week, a full-house audience at the Pell Center heard the perspectives of two experts – Doug Hall of the National Priorities Project and Kate Brewster of the Economic Progress Institute (Providence) – on how we make choices to shape our economy. Brewster and Hall talked about the continuing economic difficulties facing many Americans and specifically, Rhode Islanders, and agreed on a number of ideas about the current challenges … Read More
Upcoming Panel Discussion | Creating Good Jobs and Broad Prosperity
The economy will be a top priority in the November elections—nationally and in Rhode Island—and candidates everywhere are talking about how to improve it. Although President Obama has canceled his engagement at Rhode Island College to speak about the economy, we invite you to continue the discussion with the Pell Center and experts from the Economic Progress Institute and the National Priorities Project about how we can create a better economy … Read More
Not about charity
At a forum last night for Rhode Island gubernatorial candidates (organized by the Economic Progress Institute and held at the Ocean State Theatre in Warwick, RI), one of the participants emphasized a point that all of us would do well to remember. It is worth taking a moment to appreciate State Treasurer Gina Raimondo’s repeated insistence that “This is not about charity,” when talking about tax-supported public programs from Head … Read More
Paving the way
A couple weeks ago, some of the most important economic movers and shakers in Rhode Island gathered to listen to ideas for moving the state’s economy forward, and for turning those ideas into realities. Attendees included elected officials (Governor Chaffee, Speaker of the House Gordon Fox, Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, and mayors of several towns), and leaders from the business, nonprofit and academic sectors. The ideas presented were gathered … Read More