A prominent public role in R&D, business subsidies, and restrictions that keep both knowledge and production within our borders are not incompatible with rapid economic growth and technological progress.
A case study on the public investments behind the Israeli economic miracle
American Compass policy advisor Gabriela Rodriguez discusses the Jones Act, shipping and supply chains, and striking a balance between national security and consumer interests.
Spur private investment, innovation, and competition by guaranteeing demand for domestic production
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren and Chris discuss how to spur private investment, innovation, and competition by guaranteeing demand for domestic production
American Compass’s Wells King argues that Silicon Valleyās founder myth has things backward, misunderstanding the source of the regimeās power and flattering its worst instincts.
The indispensable and effective role of public policy in building the digital age
Today, American Compass is releasingĀ New Direction: Conservative Principles & Policies for the 118thĀ Congress,Ā an agenda for economic renewal, focused on the interests of worker, their families and communities, and the nation.
With the Small Business InnovationĀ & Research program, Congress helped build many of the nation’s most innovative firms.
Wells King and Dan Vaughn, Jr. on howĀ Reagan showed it was possible to wrangle foreign manufacturers to the U.S.
President Reagan negotiated a quota on Japanese imports that bought Detroit time to retool and spurred massive foreign investment in a new manufacturing base in the South.
American Compassās Wells King and Chris Griswold evaluate the Biden administrationās approach to industrial strategy and what it shows about the policy failures of the established ruling class.
FINANCIAL TIMESāOren Cass argues that conservative interest in rebuilding Americaās industrial base may finally be overtaking free-market fundamentalism on the right.
Oren Cass makes the case for serious permitting reform, without which it will take years to spend any money building climate-related projects, costing us money and harming the environment.
PRESS RELEASEāAmerica is finally getting serious aboutĀ returningĀ critical industries to our shores.
As the Senate takes up consideration of the CHIPS Act, American Compassās work is leading the industrial policy debate.
Restrictions on investment in China are a good idea, to be sure. The taller and stronger the guardrails, the better. But holding incentives for domestic investment hostage to tougher restrictions on foreign investment may not be wise or necessary, for two reasons.
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins the Money Talks podcast to discuss the growing embrace of industrial policy.
A special report on industrial policy and the relationship between business and the stateĀ cites American Compass executive director Oren Cass as one of the leading voices calling for a rethinking of industrial policy’s potential in the modern market.
American Compass research director Wells King argues that woke corporate activism attempts to launder self-interest through liberal ideology and to renege on actual obligations.
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