Changes

Jump to: navigation, search

Timeline of Brookings Institution

779 bytes added, 13:01, 4 November 2019
Full timeline
{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Year !! Month and date !! Event type !! Details
|-
| 1916 || || || In {{w|Washington, D.C.}} a group of leading educators, businessmen, attorneys, and financiers, including businessman and philanthropist {{w|Robert S. Brookings}}, found the Institute for Government Research (IGR), with the mission of becoming "the first private organization devoted to analyzing public policy issues at the national level."<ref>{{cite web |title=Brookings Institution |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=2 October 2019}}</ref> IGR becomes the first private organization devoted to bettering the practices and performance of government with recommendations generated by outside experts. Its first research project, directed by economist William Willoughby, focuses on helping the Bureau of Internal Revenue revise the reporting of tax statistics for greater accuracy.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS">{{cite web |title=A CENTURY OF IDEAS |url=https://www.brookings.edu/a-century-of-ideas/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="brookings.edu"/>
|-
| 1917 || || || Robert Brookings is appointed by U.S. President {{w|Woodrow Wilson}} to the {{w|War Industries Board}}, a government agency which coordinates the purchase of military supplies. Later, Brookings is made chairman of the board’s Price Fixing Committee, to discourage profiteering.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
|-
| 1927 || || Leadership || The Brookings Trustees choose their first president: American economist {{w|Harold G. Moulton}}, who was previously director of the Institute of Economics and a member of the boards of the Graduate School and the Institute for Government Research.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="brookings.edu">{{cite web |title=BROOKINGS INSTITUTION HISTORY |url=https://www.brookings.edu/about-us/brookings-institution-history/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=6 September 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 1928 || || || "1928 Survey of American Indian Conditions landmark research Secretary of the Interior Hubert Work commissioned IGR’s Lewis Meriam to undertake a comprehensive survey of the condition of Native Americans. The resulting report is influential in shaping American Indian affairs policies in the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
|-
| 1928 || || || "Dawn of In-House Book Publishing institutional milestone Brookings begins its own in-house publishing division, the forerunner of the Brookings Institution Press."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
|-
| 1932 || || Leadership || {{w|Robert Brookings}} dies in {{w|Washington, D.C.}} at the age of 82. His book ''The Way Forward'' is published just before his death, in which Brookings calls for the more equal distribution of wealth.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
|-
| 1934 || || Literature || "The {{w|Brookings Institution}} publishes the two first volumes of the four works titled ''The Distribution of Wealth and Income in Relation to Economic Progress'' (informally known as the “capacity studies” on income distribution ). The first volume is entitled ''America’s Capacity to Produce'', the second, and economic progressthe second ''America’s Capacity to Consume''. The works focus on production and consumption capacity, capital, and market speculation in the 1920s, and income distribution as it relates to the efficient functioning of the U.S. economic system. The capacity These studies are the would become a major guide to the U.S. United States economy for policymakers for much of the decade."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/><ref name="ession of the 1">{{cite web |title=Brookings’s analysis and recommendations on the Great Depression of the 1930s |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2016/10/24/brookings-great-depression/ |website=brookings.edu |accessdate=4 November 2019}}</ref>
|-
| 1928 1935 || || Literature || "1928 Survey of American Indian Conditions landmark research Secretary of The {{w|Brookings Institution}} publishes the Interior Hubert Work commissioned IGR’s Lewis Meriam to undertake a comprehensive survey two last volumes of the condition four works titled ''The Distribution of Native Americans. Wealth and Income in Relation to Economic Progress'': ''The resulting report is influential in shaping American Indian affairs policies in the Hoover Formation of Capital'' and 'Income and Roosevelt administrationsEconomic Progress''. These two volumes are authored by {{w|Harold G. Moulton}} alone."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>|-| 1928 || || || "Dawn of In-House Book Publishing institutional milestone Brookings begins its own in-house publishing division, the forerunner ession of the Brookings Institution Press."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS1"/>
|-
| 1935 || || || "1935 Analyzing New Deal Programs An Institute of Economics team directed by staff economist Leverett Lyon publishes a comprehensive study of President Franklin Roosevelt’s National Recovery Administration (NRA), a New Deal agency. The study’s authors conclude that the NRA impeded economy recovery after the Depression. Two years later, Edwin Nourse, an agriculture economist and director of the Institute of Economics, publishes a study of administrative problems in the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace said that “We’ve been doing so much wishful thinking around here, we’d benefit from an independent audit.” Nourse went on to become the first chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Harry Truman."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
62,434
edits

Navigation menu