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  • From Chasing Smokestacks to Embracing Entrepreneurship 

    Ed Glaeser, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, explains that today's cities can succeed only if they are centers of innovation that produce new technologies and new business models.

  • Law and Economics, 2.0 

    Robert E. Litan, Ph.D., Vice President, Research and Policy,  responds to the questions: How much law, and what kinds of law, are essential for innovation and growth? And what laws or legal institutions may inhibit both?

  • Financial Market Meltdown: Crisis or Opportunity? 

    View a video discussion with Robert Litan, Kauffman Vice President of Research and Policy, about the future of the markets, prospects for free trade and globalization, and how to fix American K-12 education.

  • An Economist's Insights into the Bailout Bill 

    The impact of the financial rescue plan signed into law on Oct. 3 will unfold over time, but it is likely not a perfect panacea for all institutions in need of capital.

     

  • Video Insights from Robert Litan 

    See Robert Litan provide insights into the Kauffman Foundation's work in Research & Policy. The Insights section of our Multmedia Center features the thoughtful observations of Kauffman associates on a wide range of topics. These video highlights capture the Kauffman approach to think differently and turn ideas into practical, sustainable solutions.
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Featured Insights

  • The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date 

    It was once common knowledge that the world was flat, and later, that the universe revolved around the Earth. Those are fallacies from long ago, but what about the myths of this century? Wasn't it just a few years ago

  • How America Can Achieve Better Capitalism 

    In the wake of the Great Recession and America's sluggish recovery from it, economists, policymakers, media pundits and "armchair commentators" in living rooms across America have argued about what has gone wrong with American capitalism. Even so, few constructive remedies have emerged. Better Capitalism: Renewing the Entrepreneurial Strength of the American Economy cuts through the chatter and offers a detailed, practical blueprint to restore the vigor of the American economy.

  • Understanding the Economy, One Business at a Time 

    Measurement of business activity has advanced scientifically more slowly than measurement of household activity. As a result, many of our limitations in understanding the complexities of entrepreneurship stem from a basic lack of data – something the Kauffman Foundation is working to change.