Column appearing in the Boston Business Journal July 3, 2019 The one thing that every commuter complains about is the time they spend in traffic. “If only those drivers around us would get off the roads, we would have a clear shot into work.” There are many opinions about how to alleviate this curse on
1. When will there bean economic downturn? Actually, we will probably experience a slow down before we hit the next recession. In terms of development activity, our “success” is hurtling us towards a regional inflationary period, with land costs and construction costs leading the way. Prices are accelerating with a relatively fixed construction labor pool,
A study commissioned by the non-partisan economic development organization, MassEcon, and conducted by the UMass Donahue Institute‘s Economic and Public Policy Research group, was recently released. The good news is that the vast majority of companies that chose Massachusetts as a place to expand their business would do it again. This consensus was largely based on Massachusetts’ innovative
Isn’t there a civic responsibility to plan for massive dislocation? What should we do if we knew that, in the near future, a large sector of our country’s workers, currently employed with good-paying jobs, would be put out of work by new technologies? Would we ban the new technology to save those jobs? Or, do