Rohan Sandhu
@rohansandhu.bsky.social
Co-founder of the Harvard Reimagining the Economy Project | state capacity, economic development, industrial policy, workforce/education | + TV, films, books
It depends on whether you’re defining capacity at the level of a place or an institution. For the former, I’d think in terms of the range of functions that need to exist to implement federal policies (that’s the lens I’ve used in this piece). See also a recent paper: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
The US Place-Based Policy Supply Chain
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September 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It depends on whether you’re defining capacity at the level of a place or an institution. For the former, I’d think in terms of the range of functions that need to exist to implement federal policies (that’s the lens I’ve used in this piece). See also a recent paper: www.nber.org/books-and-ch...
Reposted by Rohan Sandhu
"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...
An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
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August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...
"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...
An Abundance of Capacity (SSIR)
Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.
ssir.org
August 8, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Evidently, the state capacity needed to generate this abundance won’t just be a top-down federal imperative...We need to take an Everything Everywhere All at Once approach to building the institutional capacity required for an abundance of economic prosperity." @ssir.org ssir.org/articles/ent...
Kinda surprised about Tár being so low, tbh. But maybe too recent.
June 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Kinda surprised about Tár being so low, tbh. But maybe too recent.
Reposted by Rohan Sandhu
The "supply chain" framing allows us to unpack the process, the rules, intermediary institutions through which "horizontally-differentiated policy actions" are designed, funded, and implemented within "vertically structured policy domains"
February 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The "supply chain" framing allows us to unpack the process, the rules, intermediary institutions through which "horizontally-differentiated policy actions" are designed, funded, and implemented within "vertically structured policy domains"