In “California’s Solar Rooftop Experience: A Report Card,” the authors take a broad look at the costs and benefits to California rooftop solar adopters, affected electric utility companies, the government, and the environment because of lower carbon emissions. Using data from academic and industry sources, they calculate how much would have been spent on a […]
Bush School News
Inaugural Yale Soccer Conference
Professor Diego von Vacano organized the inaugural ‘Yale Soccer Conference’ at the Yale School of Management on February 9-10 2019. He was Co-Founder, with students Thairo Arruda and Joao Lacombe. The conference was made up of a variety of panels and speakers on many issues related to the global soccer industry. Themes included sustained commercialization, […]
Texas A&M Bush School Students Celebrate Black History Month
Founder and Chief Elevation Officer of activateelevate, Zillah Fluker, gave a talk at the Bush School of Government and Public Service on Thursday, February 21, entitled “Winning Relationships.” Such relationships work toward building diversity and benefit the workplace. The event is part of the Bush School Diversity and Inclusion Committee’s efforts to celebrate Black History […]
Economist Anne Krueger Discusses Trade Policy
On February 13, the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy hosted American economist Anne O. Krueger at a Conversations in Public Policy event focused on the economic impact of President Trump’s trade policy. The lecture, attended by about 400 guests, was co-hosted by the Texas A&M Department of Economics and the Private Enterprise Research Center. […]
Former Ambassador To Share Insight Into Bush 41’s Foreign Policy
On Monday, Feb. 18, Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, who served under President George H.W. Bush, will visit Texas A&M University to share his insights on the former president’s foreign policy. The event will begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by Ambassador Djerejian’s remarks at 6 p.m. in Hagler Auditorium in the Annenberg Presidential […]
Why The Federal Debt Matters
Some recent editorials have suggested that the national debt, which this week surpassed $22 trillion, is nothing more than a political football to carry only when it’s politically convenient. But according to Dr. Raymond Robertson, an economist at Texas A&M University Bush School of Government & Public Service, there are plenty of reasons why ever-increasing […]
Shambaugh to Talk on Forty Years of U.S. and China Relations
On Thursday, February 28, Professor David Shambaugh will give a lecture on the relationship of the U.S. and China over the forty years since the establishment of diplomatic relations. There will be a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by the lecture at 6 p.m. at the Hagler Auditorium in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center on […]
ISTPP’s Hannibal and Portney Publish on Public Awareness of the FEW Nexus
Drs. Bryce Hannibal and Kent Portney recently published an article titled “Correlates of Food-Energy-Water Nexus Awareness Among the American Public” in Social Science Quarterly. Hannibal and Portney examine public awareness of the food-energy-water nexus and identify predictors explaining awareness and public interest. The data used for the analysis comes from a nationally representative survey administered in […]
Dr. Jasen Castillo Quoted in Mother Jones Magazine
Jasen Castillo, Academic Director of the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, was quoted in an article titled “Trump’s Decision to Nuke a Key US-Russia Treaty Fuels a Simmering Global Arms Race,” published in Mother Jones Magazine on February 5, 2019. You can find the article online here.
First Major Neglected Tropical Disease Study Conducted in the US in Over Fifty Years
Researchers from the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University in collaboration with researchers from Baylor College of Medicine are conducting the largest study in over half a century on the prevalence of neglected tropical diseases in the southern United States. Neglected tropical diseases […]