DECEMBER 3, 2021; 11:00AM - 2:00PM ET
Join the Progressive Policy Institute’s Innovation Frontier Project for 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 has assembled a panel of leading experts who will address the need for new statistics in the key areas of the digital economy; healthcare; and supply chains. They will show how a relatively small investment in improving our data can avoid huge policy mistakes.
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.
PANELISTS:
Michael Mandel, Vice President and Chief Economist, PPI (moderator)
Panel 1: Measuring the Digital Economy
Diane Coyle, Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge (keynote)
Shane Greenstein, Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Panel 2: Tracking Healthcare
David Cutler, Professor of Applied Economics, Harvard University
Murray Aitken, Executive Director, IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science
Panel 3: Measuring Supply Chains
Susan Houseman, Vice-President and Director of Research, Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Robert Johnson, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame
Conclusion
John Haltiwanger, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland
