Development Editor for the Hamilton Project, based at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., since February 2005. The project seeks to publish 12-15 evidence-based policy proposals each year that contribute to opportunity, prosperity and growth. My responsibilities include generating and evaluating idea, and commenting on outlines and first drafts. See www.hamiltonproject.org.
Occasional editing consultant for Compass Lexecon LLC since 2008. Two or three times a year, work with the firm to edit and improve a report or paper in progress.
Outside Editor for Rock, Donald A. and A. Jackson Stenner,
“Assessment Issues in the Testing of Children at School Entry.” The
Future of Children. Spring 2005, 15:1, pp. 15-34. Available at www.futureofchildren.org.
Outside Book Editor for the Brookings
Institution, Washington, D.C. Projects include:
- The Evolving Pension System: Trends, Effects, and Proposals for Reform, a collection of essays edited
by William G. Gale, John B. Shoven, and Mark J. Warshawsky
(2005);
- Employees
and Corporate Governance, a collection of essays
edited by Margaret M. Blair and Mark J. Roe (1999);
- Holding
Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform
in Education, by Helen F. Ladd (1996);
- The
Evolution of the Airline Industry, by Steven
Morrison and Clifford Winston (1995);
- Ownership
and Control, by Margaret Blair (1995);
- Values
and Public Policy, a collection of essays edited
with Henry Aaron and Thomas Mann (1994);
- Growth
with Equity, by Martin Neil Baily, Gary Burtless,
and Robert Litan (1993);
- Memos
to the President, by Charles L. Schultze (1993).
Chief Outside Editor for the World Development Report 1999/2000, Entering
the 21st Century: The Changing Development Landscape,
published by the World
Bank in September 1999.
Editor for Chemicals
and Long-Term Economic Growth: Insights from the Chemical
Industry, a collection of 15 essays edited by
Ashish Arora, Ralph Landau, and Nathan Rosenberg, published
by John
Wiley & Sons, Inc., in 1998.
Co-editor of The
Mosaic of Economic Growth, with Ralph Landau and
Gavin Wright, a conference volume of 14 papers on various
aspects of the economics of growth, published by Stanford
University Press in 1996.
Outside Development editor for the first edition of Economics,
by Joseph E. Stiglitz. Responsibilities included revising,
editing and commenting on manuscript, writing inserted examples,
and generating problems and review material. W.W.
Norton published the first edition of this introductory
economics textbook in 1993. |