Recovery.gov: Using the Internet to Accelerate and Improve Fiscal Stimulus

February, 2009      Download this brief (PDF).

By Ward Hanson

Ward Hanson studies the economics and marketing of high technology, especially the impact of information technology on business and policy. He is a Research Fellow in SIEPR’s Center for Employment and Economic Growth as well as SIEPR Policy Forum Director.

Dr. Hanson received his Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University, and has been on the faculty of the University of Chicago Business School, Purdue University School of Management, and Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He has served in the U.S. Department of Energy, and assisted the Obama campaign’s Economic Growth and Innovation policy efforts.