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| 1949 || || || "Brookings scholars Charles Dearing and Wilfred Owen publish “National Transportation Policy,” recommending the creation of a new department of transportation headed by a new cabinet secretary. In the 1950s, Owen continued to write about the nation’s infrastructure and transportation inefficiencies."<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/> "The Transportation report was contracted to the Brookings Institution and was prepared by their in-house transportation experts, Charles Dearing and Wilfred Owen. The report recommended the establishment of a new, Cabinet-level Department of Transportation."<ref>{{cite web |title=1948 REPORT OF THE HOOVER COMMISSION TASK FORCE ON TRANSPORTATION |url=https://www.enotrans.org/eno-resources/1948-report-hoover-commission-task-force-transportation/ |website=enotrans.org |accessdate=7 September 2019}}</ref>
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| 1950 || || || "Brookings scholars Scholars Lewis Meriam and Karl Schlotterbeck, in “The at Brookings publish ''The Cost and Financing of Social Security'',” weigh which weighs in on legislation to change social security programs, arguing for a pay-as-you-go system. They criticize comparing social security programs to private insurance, and argue that “the situation which the country now faces thus suggests the wisdom of adopting a social security system that provides suitably for old persons and others now in need, pays the costs from current revenues, and makes no long-term commitments with respect to future payments.”"<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
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| 1952 || || || Economist and educator Robert Calkins becomes the second president of the {{w|Brookings Institution}}.<ref name="A CENTURY OF IDEAS"/>
| 1960 || || || Brookings governmental studies expert {{w|Laurin L. Henry}} publishes ''Presidential Transitions'', designed to help the winning candidate ({{w|John F. Kennedy}} or {{w|Richard M. Nixon}}) launch his administration smoothly. The book is followed by a series of confidential issues papers prepared by Brookings experts.<ref name="brookings.edu"/>
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| 1961 1962 || || || "1961. India’s “Quiet Crisis”. Brookings scholar John Lewis publishes “The ''The Quiet Crisis in India'',” an in-depth study of which studies India's rural development. Lewis makes the case for aid to India and the developing world as a component of U.S. foreign policy. The work is published <ref>{{cite web |last1=Staley |first1=Eugene |title=Quiet Crisis in India just two years later. Economic development and American policy. John P. Lewis. Brookings Institution, Washington, in the same year as the death of Jawaharlal NehruD.C., India’s founding prime minister1962. xiv + 350 pp. $5. Lewis later becomes USAID75 |url=https://science.sciencemag.org/content/140/3567/India Mission director641.1 |website=science.sciencemag."org |accessdate=6 November 2019}}</ref>
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| 1961 || || || The Brookings Institution publishes a book by American economist {{w|Alice Rivlin}} entitled ''The Role of the Federal Government in Financing Higher Education''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Higher Education: A Bibliographic Handbook, Volume 1 |edition=D. Kent Halstead |url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=XQSI9_X4eIMC&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=%22in+1961+the+brookings+institution%22&source=bl&ots=Lu3ZuS1Gze&sig=ACfU3U0i82gOEHUgnMY7mWcARX89AilmSg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQw4m0sNPlAhVsE7kGHQKQAgcQ6AEwAHoECAIQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22in%201961%20the%20brookings%20institution%22&f=false}}</ref>
