Archive: 2016

December 3, 2016 Remarks for the Harvard Alumni Association Thank you. I am delighted to have this chance to talk with you today. We have just lived through an extraordinary election campaign. The campaign was extraordinary in part because a…

November 30, 2016 Good afternoon, and welcome to Harvard Kennedy School. I’m Doug Elmendorf, the Dean of the Kennedy School, and we are delighted to have you here. Every four years, just after our national election has ended, the Kennedy School’s…

October 13, 2016 Special Event: “Ten Big Ideas on Inequality” – Harvard Kennedy School Thank you, I’m delighted to be here. Here’s the idea I want to emphasize: To reduce the harmful effects of inequality on our economy and society, we…

September 9, 2016 Remarks delivered at Harvard University Thank you. I am delighted to have this chance to talk with you today. And I do want to talk with you, not at you, because that will be more interesting for all of us. So, I thought I would…

June 14, 2016 Presented to the American Society of Health Economists Thank you. I am delighted to be here at ASHE’s biennial conference and honored to have been invited to speak to you. Dan Polsky and Mark Pauly asked me to talk about the role of…

June 9, 2016 Remarks Presented at the American Enterprise Institute Thank you. I am delighted to be here and grateful to Jim for inviting me to participate. The report that Jim and his colleagues are releasing today is a very interesting take on…

May 27, 2016 Comments for Radcliffe Day Thank you. I am delighted to be here for Radcliffe Day and honored to be included in this celebration of Janet Yellen. I will use my few minutes to draw out some implications of the other panelists’ remarks…

May 26, 2016 Good afternoon, everyone. Let me offer my own warm welcome to Harvard Kennedy School! Being Dean of the Kennedy School offers me many wonderful privileges, but none more rewarding than leading our graduates to Harvard Yard for this…

April 26, 2016 Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs Thank you. I am delighted to be here. My goal today is to make the case for economic policies that I think the next administration should pursue. The starting point is to ask what…

April 22, 2016 Remarks at the Harvard Kennedy School Health Care Leadership Council Roundtable Let me begin by offering a warm welcome to Harvard Kennedy School. We are not physically in the school’s buildings, which are undergoing massive…