Michigan Future introduces new bloggers
The entire Michigan Future staff is going to start sharing this blog with me. The plan is to have a new blog Tuesday through Friday.
Taxes and economic growth
Two recent New Times columns make the case that lower taxes are not the magic elixir that automatically leads to economic success. Both worth reading.
Talent and prosperity
A central conclusion of Michigan Future’s research over the decades is that the most prosperous places are those with the highest proportion of adults with
Education for the second machine age
I’m rereading The Second Machine Age by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee. As I discussed previously, if I only could read only one book on
Deemphasizing standardized testing
For years I have ben an advocate for using standardized tests as the prime way to evaluate the quality of K-12 schools and to hold
Jobs-altering technology
One of the new economic realities, that can’t be altered by politics or public policy, is that smarter and smarter machines are going to accelerate
