On Terms of Trade
The international trading system must recover the core principles of reciprocity, security, and democracy.
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On Infrastructure Financing
A national development bank could attract the private capital that America’s infrastructure needs.
On Antitrust Enforcement
The American medical industry offers a case study of how market concentration undermines economic resilience.
On Agency Structure
A new task for government demands a new structure for its agencies.
On Regulatory Reform
Outdated environmental regulation poses an irrational barrier to reshoring efforts.
On Workforce Investment
Reshoring strategies can only go so far without investment in America’s skilled workforce.
On Domestic Sourcing
Local content requirements offer a simple intervention with benefits that its prohibitionist detractors ignore.
Moving the Chains
9 Strategies for Retaking Global Leadership in Industry and Innovation
On Tax Incentives
A tax credit for domestic investment is the best way to reduce production costs.
On Research & Development
Pre-competitive research consortia are vital to sparking innovation.
Foreword: The Reshoring Imperative
You may not be interested in supply chains, but supply chains are interested in you.
Executive Summary
Nine strategies for retaking global leadership in industry and innovation
Economies of Scale Versus Big Business
Last week, some very large employers – including Salesforce, Tesla, and Walmart – called for a corporate merger moratorium for hospitals and doctors groups. It’s unusual to have the paragons of big business assert the need for aggressive antitrust, but it speaks to how confused our current economic debates really are.
Marco Rubio Takes on Deindustrialization and Race
The decline in American manufacturing hurt workers of every racial background.
Is It Time for an American Industrial Policy?
American Compass’s Oren Cass participates in a written debate with Duke University’s Michael Munger over the need for American industrial policy.
Hamiltonian Means, Jeffersonian Ends
My American Compass co-blogger, Michael Lind, likes to portray America’s development as a tug of war between the ideals of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson — nation builders and industrialists on the one hand, and laissez-faire localists on the other.
We Will NOT Run Out of Jobs
This seems like a strange headline given that the economy has recently shed almost 40 million jobs. But at some point with the development of a vaccine or an effective treatment, the economy will come back to normal.
Japan Offers a Compelling ‘Back to the Future’ Model
Japan has announced newly defined restrictions on foreign investment, which at face value, seem to violate the provisions of the World Trade Organization agreement.
Government, Not Markets Can Best Pick Winners
China’s economic rise and the damage inflicted on U.S. industry has been a wakeup call to many U.S. policymakers. But most conventional economists continue to hold firm to their ideological notion that only the market can respond, and that any more proactive government action, particularly focused on key sectors or technologies, is doomed to fail.
Rebooting the American System
The comprehensive, conservative case for a return to robust national economic policy
