While attending Brookings Institution, Peter Orszag cofounded and directed the Hamilton Project. The Hamilton Project is named after one of America’s Founding Fathers, Alexander Hamilton, who was an economist and the nation’s first Secretary of the Treasury.
Brookings, a nonprofit Washington D.C based think tank, focuses on public policy in the realm of social sciences, including economics. The Hamilton Project is an Economic Policy Program that facilitates economic growth, security, and sustainability in the United States.
Launched in 2005, the Hamilton Project’s strategy focuses on three major areas: broad-based economic advancement as longer-lasting and more valuable, that economic growth and economic security have a symbiotic, mutual relationship, and that effective governance is an important element of secure economic advancement.
The project aims to facilitate an economy in which every educated, hard working American has the opportunity to grow economically, and that each generation will be more successful than the one before it. The project implements a collection of discussion papers and policy papers, exploring economic policy and inviting debate and discussion.
The Hamilton Project has gained recognition and has been featured by major media outlets, such as Bloomberg, the Economist, the New York Times, Huffington Post, the Washington Post, MSNBC, and many others.
Peter Orszag helped found the project and was its director from 2005 through 2007. The project still lives on, and its current leaders hope it can help to improve current economic policy.