Jason Furman
Former Director, The Hamilton Project; Former Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Jason Furman is Principal Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. He was the Director of The Hamilton Project from 2007 to 2008.
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Missing Markets: Fostering Market Based Solutions to Major Risks: Event Photos
The Hamilton Project hosted a discussion focusing on what the government can do to foster market-based solutions to major risks. Markets that could potentially mitigate or reduce some of the biggest risks faced by the American people and their broader communities are nonexistent or underutilized.
Facilitating and Rewarding Work: Event Photos
The Hamilton Project hosted a two-part forum on ways to encourage, facilitate, and reward work. Jason Furman provided an overview of a strategy paper, which suggested a long-term approach to expanding opportunity, along with specific near-term policies to promote work and reduce poverty.
Path to Prosperity
Today, too many Americans are not fully sharing in our nation’s prosperity. This paper outlines the ways in which promoting economic growth, broad-based participation in growth, and economic security can be mutually reinforcing policy objectives.
Missing Markets: Why Markets that Can Reduce Risks are Missing and What Can be Done About It
Jason Furman discusses the issue of missing markets for both societal and individual risk, highlighting reasons for the absence of these markets and proposing solutions to enable the development of new markets.
Missing Markets: Fostering Market-Based Solutions to Major Risks: Panel One: How Markets Can Create New Opportunities for Individuals
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Missing Markets: Fostering Market-Based Solutions to Major Risks: Panel Two: How Markets Can Help Communities Manage Financial Risk
Full audio of Panel Two: "How Markets Can Help Communties Manage Financial Risk" from the event Missing Markets: Fostering Market-Based Solutions to Major Risks
Missing Markets: Fostering Market-Based Solutions to Major Risks
The Hamilton Project hosted a discussion on what the government can do to foster market-based solutions to major risks. Markets that could potentially mitigate or reduce some of the biggest risks faced by the American people and their broader communities are nonexistent or underutilized.
The Concept of Neutrality in Tax Policy
On April 15th, tax filing day, Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the concept of tax neutrality.
Easing the Traffic Jam through Congestion Pricing
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Easing the Traffic Jam Through Congestion Pricing
David Lewis outlined his new Hamilton Project paper on the merits and potential barriers to congestion pricing as a tool for combating urban gridlock at an event co-sponsored with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program.
The Concept of Neutrality in Tax Policy
On April 15th, tax filing day, Hamilton Project Director Jason Furman testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the concept of tax neutrality.
If, When, How: A Primer on Fiscal Stimulus
The livelihoods and living standards of many Americans are at stake in any discussion about stimulus. This paper considers several key questions on stimulus and provides principles and examples for effective implementation.
If, When, How? Prospects for Fiscal Stimulus in the U.S. Economy: Event Photos
The Hamilton Project released a briefing paper and convened a discussion among key economic thinkers on what economists know about fiscal stimulus — if it is appropriate, when should it be implemented, and how it should it be done.
If, When, How? Prospects for Fiscal Stimulus in the U.S. Economy
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If, When, How? Prospects for Fiscal Stimulus in the U.S. Economy
The Hamilton Project released a briefing paper and convened a discussion on what economists know about fiscal stimulus — if it is appropriate, when should it be implemented, and how should it be done.
Facilitating and Rewarding Work: Panel 2: Enhancing the Social Safety Net
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Facilitating and Rewarding Work: Panel 1: Making Work Pay
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Facilitating and Rewarding Work
The Project hosted a two-part forum on ways to encourage, facilitate, and reward work. Jason Furman provided an overview of a strategy paper, which suggested a long-term approach to expanding opportunity, along with specific near-term policies to promote work and reduce poverty.
A Hand Up: A Strategy to Reward Work, Expand Opportunity, and Reduce Poverty
This paper offers a strategy to reduce poverty and strengthen growth across the income spectrum by helping people find jobs, investing in human capital, and creating a strong social safety net.
A Climate of Change: Event Photos
The Hamilton Project hosted a forum highlighting a new strategy paper and two new discussion papers on how to best design market mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including proposals to expand the federal R&D program to better promote the development of new greenhouse gas reducing technologies.
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A Climate of Change: Economic Approaches to Reforming Energy and Protecting the Environment
The Hamilton Project hosted a forum highlighting a new strategy paper and two new discussion papers on how to best design market mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including proposals to expand the federal R&D program to better promote the development of new greenhouse gas-reducing technologies.
An Economic Strategy to Address Climate Change and Promote Energy Security
This paper presents a strategy for addressing climate change and promoting energy security that includes pricing carbon and oil, investing in basic research on energy technologies, and engaging with other major emitting nations.
A New Social Contract
The Hamilton Project partnered with Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, for a luncheon discussion on the development of a social contract for all Americans. In a global economy marked by rapid technological change, global labor markets, and mobile capital, a new model is needed to provide families with economic security and to keep the economy productive.
Who’s Got the Cure? Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage: Panel One
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Who’s Got the Cure? Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage: Panel Two
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Who’s Got the Cure? Four Options for Achieving Universal Coverage
The Project held two panel roundtable discussions on four alternative policy proposals for achieving universal health care coverage in the United States and the merits and challenges of the various proposals.
Universal, Effective, and Affordable Health Insurance: An Economic Imperative
This paper examines the interrelated problems of uninsurance and expensive or ineffective care in the American healthcare system. Universal insurance would eliminate uncompensated cost shifts and expand risk pooling and reduce the fragmentation of financing.
Reforming Taxation in the Global Age: Panel One: Tax Reform: Strategies and Specifics
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Reforming Taxation in the Global Age
A two-part forum and release of a new set of policy proposals that address the challenges of reforming the U.S. tax system.
Achieving Progressive Tax Reform in an Increasingly Global Economy
The dynamic forces of technological change, financial innovation, and globalization present new challenges for progressive taxation. This strategy paper offers several broad principles that reflect the new challenges facing our tax system in the 21st Century.
Health Care Reconsidered: Options for Change Part One: Affordability and Effectiveness
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Evolving Beyond Traditional Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance
The Hamilton Project hosted a policy seminar on a proposal from Stuart Butler of the Heritage Foundation to move toward universal coverage by evolving beyond the traditional model of employer-sponsored health insurance.
Health-Care Reform Reconsidered: Options for Change, Part 1: Affordability and Effectiveness
The Project held the first of a two-part series focused on making health care more affordable while improving its effectiveness. The event featured panel discuss on the challenges of providing affordable quality health care and specific health policy recommendations.
The Promise of Progressive Cost Consciousness in Health-care Reform
One important contribution to the challenges facing healthcare today is the increased insulation of Americans from the cost of care. To address this issue, this paper proposes a template for a progressive cost sharing plan.
The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth: Panel One
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The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth: Panel Two
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The Role of Education in Promoting Opportunity and Economic Growth
The Hamilton Project held a panel discussion that featured recent strategy and discussion papers on ways to promote opportunity and growth through our nation's education system. The Project is examining the full spectrum of early childhood, K-12, and higher education.
An Education Strategy to Promote Opportunity, Prosperity, and Growth
To better secure the benefits of education, this paper outlines an evidence-based education strategy that emphasizes new investments in some areas (such as early education) and structural reforms in others (such as the teacher tenure system).
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