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Improving Measures of Science, Technology, and Innovation
The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundation, is 1 of 14 major statistical agencies in the federal government, of which at …
Need for Speed
The twenty-first-century telecommunications landscape is radically different from the one that prevailed as recently as the last decade of the twentieth century. Robert Litan and …
Future of American Banking
The future of American banking is in doubt and the industry and the federal insurance fund that helps support it are in turmoil. The ingredients of the turmoil have been simmering …
Moving Money
Once we paid for things with bills, coins, or checks. Today we pay with zeroes and onesdigital entries on credit and debit cards, or electronic messages sent over the Internet. In …
Growing Old
A Brookings Institution Press and Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research publicationWhile the immediate dangers from the recent financial crisis have abatedmuch ofthe …
Going Digital!
A Brookings Institution Press and Cato Institute publicationThe information age technology revolution promises enormous benefits to the U.S. and global economies. Yet if those …
Protecting the American Homeland
A good deal has been done to improve the safety of Americans on their own soil since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yet there have been numerous setbacks. The Bush …
Rocky Times
It has been four years since the financial crisis of 2008, and the global financial system still is experiencing malaise caused by high rates of unemployment; a lingering, …
Financial Statecraft
As trade flows expanded and trade agreements proliferated after World War II, governmentsmost notably the United Statescame increasingly to use their power over imports and …
Worldwide Financial Reporting
International accounting standards tend to converge, as do auditing, enforcement and corporate governance, whereas trading of equity shares remains essentially national. The book …
Building Inclusive Financial Systems
Broad-based and inclusive financial systems significantly raise growth, alleviate poverty, and expand economic opportunity. Households, small enterprises, and the rural poor often …