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The Hamilton Project produces and commissions policy proposals and analyses to promote broad-based economic growth by embracing a significant role for well-designed government policies and public investment.
Policy Proposals
Toward a uniform business tax system: Examining proposals to tax large pass-through entities as corporations
Miles Johnson, Thalia T. Spinrad, Kathleen Bryant, and Chye-Ching Huang analyze a proposal to tax large pass-through businesses as C corporations.
Tax Policy & Budget
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The future of US international corporate tax reform
Tax Policy & Budget
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Taking on tax: Toward progressive revenue-raising business tax reform
Tax Policy & Budget
Policy Proposals
Corporate tax reform in the wake of the 2025 tax law: Completing the shift to a corporate cash-flow tax
Tax Policy & Budget
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Protecting urban places and populations from rising climate risk
This paper proposes three complementary policies for enhancing urban resilience to new climate risk. The first focuses on improving key urban infrastructure. T…
Twelve economic facts on energy and climate change
In this set of economic facts, The Hamilton Project and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago provide useful context for a discussion of the…
The next generation of transportation policy
In this paper, Greenstone, Sunstein and Ori propose two major steps towards simplifying fuel efficiency standards and refocusing the program on achieving guara…
The economic and policy context for greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions—and primarily CO2 emissions—have meaningfully contributed to the warming the globe has experienced so far, and are expected to c…
Aligning federal coal leasing and US climate policy
In a new paper from The Hamilton Project and the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago, Professors Kenneth T. Gillingham (of Yale) and James H. …
Federal minerals leasing reform and climate policy
Over the past two decades Democratic and Republican administrations have taken steps to reduce U.S. carbon-dioxide emissions by reducing use of fossil fuels. D…
Differences in water use across counties in the United States
Using newly released data, The Hamilton Project presents an economic analysis and a new interactive feature to illustrate the great variation in the level and …
America’s fragmented water systems
In the blog post, The Hamilton Project explores the regulatory challenges of America's fragmented water systems and highlight eye-opening information from …
