Jason Bordoff is the Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Prior to joining CEQ, he was Policy Director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative housed at The Brookings Institution committed to promoting more broadly shared prosperity. Jason has written on a broad range of economic policy matters, with a focus on climate and energy, trade and globalization, and tax policy. His publications include "Path to Prosperity" (Brookings Press 2008, with Jason Furman) and several journal articles, book chapters, op eds and policy papers. Jason is also a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Association of Marshall Scholars. He is a member of the New York and Washington D.C. Bar Associations. He previously served as an advisor to Deputy Secretary Stuart E. Eizenstat at the U.S. Treasury Department, and worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co. in New York. He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was treasurer and an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also holds an MLitt degree from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar, and a BA magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University.
Economic Security
Progressive Tax Reform in the Era of Globalization: Building Consensus for More Broadly Shared Prosperity (with Jason Furman), Harvard Law and Policy Review (2008)
Part I of this Essay reviews the traditional case for progressivity in the tax code,...
Broken Contract, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (2007)
Americans face greater economic risks and are not sharing in our nation’s economic prosperity. As...
A Growth-Enhancing Approach to Economic Security (with Michael Deich and Peter R. Orszag), Hamilton Project Strategy Paper (2006)
Overall macroeconomic growth is not translating into significantly improved economic well-being for most families. In...
An Economic Strategy to Advance Opportunity, Prosperity and Growth (with Roger C. Altman, Peter R. Orszag, and Robert E. Rubin), Hamilton Project Strategy Paper (2006)
Americans have long believed that with education and hard work, each generation can do better...
Education
Promoting America's Economic Security through Education , Georgetown Public Policy Institute (2007)
I am particularly pleased that the conference organizers included a panel on education as part...
An Education Strategy to Promote Opportunity, Prosperity, and Growth (with Jason Furman and Joshua Bendor), Hamilton Project Strategy Paper (2007)
Investments in education yield large returns to both society and the individual. Furthermore, expanding access...
Energy and Environment
Pay-As-You-Drive Legislation is a Win-Win (with Pascal Noel), Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2009)
In these tough economic times, consumers are looking everywhere for places to pinch pennies.
...Breaking the Boom-Bust Oil Cycle (with Gilbert Metcalf), The New Republic (2009)
While oil prices have decreased they won't remain that way due to demand and tight...
Refuel Economy with Cash for Old Cars, Detroit Free Press (2009)
The incoming administration needs to act quickly to stimulate our ailing economy. Jason Bordoff suggests...
International Trade Law and the Economics of Climate Policy: Evaluating the Legality And Effectiveness of Proposals to Address Competitiveness and Leakage Concerns, Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Is a Collision Inevitable? (2009)
The Threat to Free Trade Posed by Climate Change Policy, Geneva Trade and Development Forum (2008)
Any unilateral effort by the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by putting a...
Globalization
Strengthening American Competitiveness: Regaining Our Competitive Edge (with Lael Brainard, Isaac Sorkin, and Carola McGiffert), Brookings Competitiveness Initiative (2009)
The United States is in the midst of the most serious economic downturn since the...
International Trade Law and the Economics of Climate Policy: Evaluating the Legality And Effectiveness of Proposals to Address Competitiveness and Leakage Concerns, Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Is a Collision Inevitable? (2009)
The Threat to Free Trade Posed by Climate Change Policy, Geneva Trade and Development Forum (2008)
Any unilateral effort by the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by putting a...
Progressive Tax Reform in the Era of Globalization: Building Consensus for More Broadly Shared Prosperity (with Jason Furman), Harvard Law and Policy Review (2008)
Part I of this Essay reviews the traditional case for progressivity in the tax code,...
Broken Contract, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (2007)
Americans face greater economic risks and are not sharing in our nation’s economic prosperity. As...
Insurance
Pay-As-You-Drive Legislation is a Win-Win (with Pascal Noel), Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2009)
In these tough economic times, consumers are looking everywhere for places to pinch pennies.
...Insurance Pricing Can Cut Gas Use (Op-Ed) (with Pascal Noel), Hartford Courant (and others) (2008)
The Impact of Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance in California (with Pascal Noel) (2008)
The current lump-sum pricing of auto insurance is inefficient and inequitable. Drivers who are similar...
Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance, Democracy: A Journal of Ideas (2008)
If you’re like most Americans, you eat too much at all-you-can-eat buffets. With auto insurance,...
Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance: A Simple Way to Reduce Driving-Related Harms and Increase Equity (with Pascal Noel), Hamilton Project Discussion Paper (2008)
The current lump-sum pricing of auto insurance is inefficient and inequitable. Drivers who are similar...
Poverty
A Hand Up: A Strategy to Reward Work, Expand Opportunity, and Reduce Poverty (with Jason Furman and Paige Shevlin), Hamilton Project Strategy Paper (2007)
Poverty remains a pressing problem in the United States. Many of the 36 million Americans...
Science and Technology
Promoting Opportunity and Growth through Science, Technology, and Innovation (with Michael Deich, Rebecca Kahane, and Peter R. Orszag), Hamilton Project Strategy Paper (2006)
Americans are facing heightened economic pressures from the effects of globalization as workers from China,...
Tax Policy
Progressive Tax Reform in the Era of Globalization: Building Consensus for More Broadly Shared Prosperity (with Jason Furman), Harvard Law and Policy Review (2008)
Part I of this Essay reviews the traditional case for progressivity in the tax code,...
Achieving Progressive Tax Reform in an Increasingly Global Economy (with Lawrence H. Summers and Jason Furman), Hamilton Project Strategy Paper (2007)
The progressive tax system, and the nation's fiscal system more broadly, have historically played an...