A Policy Framework for Advancing Productive Investments and Clean Energy throughout the U.S. Economy

Robert Pollin

Working Papers from Political Economy Research Institute, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Abstract: This paper considers policies for promoting productive investments in the United States, especially as regards the project of building a clean energy economy. The four main policies examined are: 1) Expanding public investments throughout the economy and gaining the crowding-in benefits that will accrue from such investments; 2) Refocusing the successful, but ad hoc, U.S. model of industrial policies; 3) Advancing this agenda of public investments, industrial policy and cooperative/community ownership in ways that benefit all regions of the U.S. equitably; and 4) Promoting cooperative and community-based ownership forms, as alternatives to the private corporation.

Keywords: Public Investment; Industrial Policy; Community Ownership; Clean Energy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H54 L33 O25 Q43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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