The story isn't exactly the same in the U.S. but this work from Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and others remains pertinent as the U.S. contemplates its stark regional divides.

Join us for our April 24 event where Mark Muro, Rob Cherry from Partner4Work, Sherri McCleary, and Ben Pratt will discuss how to leverage a federal place-based challenge grant to accelerate manufacturing automation in the Pittsburgh region. Register: brookings.edu/events/issues-…

Please join us in Pittsburgh Wednesday, 4/24, to talk advanced industries policy at a critical time in a compelling place.

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How can technology promotion and protection stand to shape the U.S.-Japan alliance and broader regional dynamics?🇺🇸🤝🇯🇵

Join Mireya Solis Valerie Wirtschafter Mark Muro & other top experts on Thursday, May 2nd at 10:30 AM EDT.

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If you're a Pittsburgher please join our 4/24 event on revitalizing American industry

Pittsburgh is doing it; leaders there have ideas about what might help with the next phase.

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Join us on April 24 to hear The Brookings Institution Amy Liu, Petra Mitchell, president and CEO of Catalyst Connection, and Rick Siger, secretary of PA Department of Community & Economic Development discuss how to bolster advanced manufacturing in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Register for our event here: brookings.edu/events/issues-…

I'm gratified Jed Kolko includes Brookings Metro work in his wise SlowBoring take on what kind of research is actually useful to people in government.

What's astonishing meanwhile is how rarely does one see writing about that topic.

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I was just the Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Commerce Department. Here's the economic research that was really helpful to us.

(Thank you Matthew Yglesias for the opportunity to guest-post!)

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✨Delighted to share 1st in my new @brookingsmetro series featuring workers in jobs disrupted by #GenAI .

I profile 5 Hollywood writers, document their remarkable Writers Guild of America West victory securing AI protections, and analyze what it means for other workers.

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Please look at Molly Kinder's compelling account of the concerns and organizing of Hollywood writers as they seek to shape how generative #AI lands.

Her work kicks off a series of narrative and quantitative analyses from Molly, Xavier de Souza Briggs and myself

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Big Tech's 'rent extraction' isn't new, but with AI, the stakes are higher. In The Conversation, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose's Tim O'Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Rufus and I call for economic recalibration to align AI with public interest, not just private profits ⬇️ theconversation.com/to-understand-…

If you're in the Pittsburgh area, join us for this live event at Carnegie Mellon University on April 24.

Join us 4/24 as The Brookings Institution, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Pittsburgh host an Election '24 event exploring the role public policies should play in sustaining local industrial revitalization, particularly in transitioning regions like Pittsburgh. Register: brookings.edu/events/issues-…

Looking forward to joining Microsoft
TechSpark chat at 4ET on strategies for financing the sustainability of community development organizations and place-based initiatives

Join here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/nonprofit-c……

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Join us Tuesday for a chat via Microsoft TechSpark on strategies for financing the sustainability of community development organizations and place-based initiatives

Register here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/nonprofit-c…

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World ability / willingness to absorb new 'China Shock' flood of cheap goods is much less now than in 2000s, write Jason Douglas Dave Sebastian

This time, the world is fighting back. wsj.com/world/china/ch… via The Wall Street Journal

cc Robert D. Atkinson

NEW: It's The End of the Beginning for US Green Banks!

Read Ilmi Granoff Roosevelt Institute on the long road to Thursday's Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund $20 billion funding announcement, and what comes next for financing decarbonization.
rooseveltinstitute.org/2024/04/05/the…

JUST IN: Another blockbuster month for jobs. The US economy added 303,000 jobs in March — way above expectations. The big gains were healthcare (72k) and gov’t (71k).

Unemployment rate: 3.8% (vs 3.9% in Feb)

Wage growth: 4.1% in past year (well above 3.2% inflation)

The criticisms of industrial policy have a lot to do with the hollowing out of state capacity over the past few decades. But industrial policy is an *ongoing process* that requires public-private & public-public coordination, iteration, and improvisation | promarket.org/2024/04/04/ind…

Spatial economic inequality is one of the most pressing and difficult issues of our time. Understanding it requires a multi-faceted approach & new types of data.
Bathelt, Max Buchholz & Storper introducing JoEG special issue on inter-regional #inequality .
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