The 7th Annual Summit on the Economy
What are the fundamental building blocks of a healthy economy? The mainstream answer used to be an educated workforce; an open, global market; a tax and regulatory structure that put a premium on innovation, higher productivity and investment; free flowing capital markets punished or rewarded by a free market and not from the government’s selection of winners and losers, among other factors. Today, however, economic dynamism and entrepreneurship are on the decline, not surging. Payoffs from education have become increasingly complex as more is expected from students in terms of financial and time investment. Walls and borders are now becoming distinctive features of a higher fear, less integrated form of globalization. Technology provides new efficiencies and opportunities but also generates displacement of workers. Economic and opportunity inequality inside the world’s leading market democracies have worsened, creating widely different economic and political realities for those living in superforming cosmopolitan hubs and everyone else. The world is still grappling with whether American leadership in promotion an open and liberal trading and investment system has come to an end.
The 7th Annual Summit on the Economy, organized by the Governor’s Woods Foundation and the Economic Innovation Group, will assemble a diverse array of economic thinkers, innovators, policymakers, technologists, business leaders, and media commentators to wrestle through the questions of how to move the equilibrium between economic stakeholders in a more healthy direction that respectively addresses what is driving economic crises, what is leaving more people behind, and what is depressing the very innovation and opportunity that the US economy needs in order to be revitalized and lift more boats.
Featured Speakers
- Sen. Amy Klobuchar, (D-MN), US Senate
- Amy Liu, Vice President & Director, The Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program
- Dr. Doug Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum
- Edward Luce, Chief US Commentator, Financial Times
- Evan Burfield, Co-founder & CEO, 1776
- Gregory Ip, Chief Economics Commentator, Wall Street Journal
- Grover Norquist, Founder & President, Americans for Tax Reform
- James Pethokoukis, Economics Scholars Editor, AEIdeas & DeWitt Wallace Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
- Dr. Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
- Dr. Jason Furman, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Jim Tankersley, New Policy & Politics Editor, Vox
- John Lettieri, Co-founder & Senior Director for Policy and Strategy, Economic Innovation Group
- Kristin Sharp, Executive Director, SHIFT (New America & Bloomberg)
- Liz Simon, General Counsel & Vice President of External Affairs, General Assembly
- Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
- Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, President & CEO, Global Policy Solutions
- Richard Vague, Managing Partner, Gabriel Investments & Chairman, The Governor’s Woods Foundation
- Rep. Ro Khanna, (D-CA-17), US House of Representatives
- Dr. Scott Winship, Project Director, Office of the Vice Chairman, Joint Economic Committee
- Steve Clemons, Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
- Steve Glickman, Co-founder & Executive Director, Economic Innovation Group
...and more!
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