Category «Economy»

From waterfall to agile: How a public-sector agency successfully changed its system-development approach to become digital

McKinsey & Company – March 2016 – From waterfall to agile: How a public-sector agency successfully changed its system- development approach to become digital, Martin Lundqvist and Peter Braad Olesen. “Government agencies around the world are under internal and external pressure to become more efficient by incorporating digital technologies and processes into their day-to-day operations. …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management

D.C. Area’s Housing Prices Based On Proximity To Metro Stations

via dcist: Christina SturdivantLooking to purchase a home near the Metro? Properties close to certain stations are considerably cheaper than others, according to real estate search site Estately, which analyzed pricing info from the last six months of home sales near each of the area’s stations. Today, the site released data showing a $700,000 price …

Subjects: Economy, Housing, Transportation

Alternatives for Making Federal Highway Spending More Productive

“Presentation by Chad Shirley, CBO’s Deputy Assistant Director for Microeconomic Studies, at the Transportation Policy & Finance Summit of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA). Federal spending on highways (or, synonymously, roads) totaled $46 billion in 2014, roughly a quarter of total public spending on highways. But that spending does not correspond very …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Transportation

GAO Reports – Social Security Disability, Oil and Gas Management, U.S. Secret Service

Social Security Disability: SSA Could Increase Savings by Refining Its Selection of Cases for Disability Review, GAO-16-250: Published: Feb 11, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 14, 2016. Oil and Gas Management: Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Restructuring Has Not Addressed Long-Standing Oversight Deficiencies, GAO-16-245: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016. U.S. …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care

GAO – USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations

Bee Health: USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations, GAO-16-220: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016: “Honey bees and other managed and wild, native bees provide valuable pollination services to agriculture worth billions of dollars to farmers. Government and university researchers have documented declines in some …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents

New on LLRX – The Mediachain Project: Developing a Global Creative Rights Database Using Blockchain Technology

Via LLRX.com – The Mediachain Project: Developing a Global Creative Rights Database Using Blockchain Technology – Alan Rothman’s article focuses on a creative, innovative effort to deploy the blockchain as a form of global registry of creative works ownership – specifically a global rights database for images. The co-founders of a new metadata protocol they …

Subjects: Copyright, E-Commerce, Economy, Financial System, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

New on LLRX – Global Skills for U.S. JD Students

Via LLRXcom – Global Skills for U.S. JD Students – This article by Theresa Kaiser-Jarvis, Assistant Dean for International Affairs, University of Michigan Law School, discusses a pivotal issue that represents an increasingly significant development in the practice of law in the United States. Kaiser-Jarvis shines a bright light on the skills, knowledge and abilities …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research

Human Survival, Risk, and Law: Considering Risk Filters to Replace Cost-Benefit Analysis

Draper, John William, Human Survival, Risk, and Law: Considering Risk Filters to Replace Cost-Benefit Analysis (January 30, 2016). Fordham Environmental Law Journal, Vol. 27, 2016 Forthcoming. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2745520 “Selfish utilitarianism, neo-classical economics, the directive of short-term income maximization, and the decision tool of cost-benefit analysis fail to protect our species from …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Financial System, Government Documents

Paper – Can Government Demand Stimulate Private Investment?

International Monetary Fund – Shafik Hebous; Tom Zimmermann, March 10, 2016: Can Government Demand Stimulate Private Investment? Evidence from U.S. Federal Procurement. Summary: “We study the effects of federal purchases on firms’ investment using a novel panel dataset that combines federal procurement contracts in the United States with key financial firm-level information. We find that …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

Measuring income and wealth at the top using administrative and survey data

Brookings – Jesse Bricker, Alice Henriques, Jacob Krimmel and John Sabelhaus: “Most available estimates of US wealth and income concentration indicate that top shares are high and rising in recent decades, but there is some disagreement about specific levels and trends. Household surveys are the traditional data source used to measure top shares, but recent …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System, Government Documents

GAO Reports – Bee Health, Oil and Gas Management, US Secret Service

Bee Health: USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations, GAO-16-220: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016. Oil and Gas Management: Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Restructuring Has Not Addressed Long-Standing Oversight Deficiencies, GAO-16-245: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016. U.S. Secret …

Subjects: Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents

Public Predictions for the Future of Workforce Automation

Pew Report – A majority of Americans predict that within 50 years, robots and computers will do much of the work currently done by humans – but few workers expect their own jobs or professions to experience substantial impacts. “From self-driving vehicles and semi-autonomous robots to intelligent algorithms and predictive analytic tools, machines are increasingly …

Subjects: Economy, Financial System

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